Rising Authoritarianism

The conference is organiszed by CEVIPOL, the Social Science Research Center (WZB Berlin) and the Cluster of Excellenz SCRIPTS. A follow-up conference is planned for 2024 in Berlin. 
 

International Conference, 28-29 September, Brussels

Organised by the Centre d’Étude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and the Berlin-based Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)

Resisting the autocratic turn: Can (and should) autocratization be prevented, stopped, and resisted”
 
The 2022 annual V-Dem report puts forward that we are currently observing autocratization processes in 33 countries, directly affecting the political environment of a total of 36% of the world population (Boese et al. 2022, 18). These processes are global in nature and constitute a worrying trend. They concern the full spectrum of political regimes, and they take many forms depending on the starting and end point of the process. What can political regimes, institutions and actors do against these processes? The conference therefore adopts a multi-perspective approach that cuts across political science subdisciplines and includes the legal-institutionalist dimension, the agency factor, the structural factor, the conceptual side, and methodology and measurement challenges. Against this backdrop, the conference unites scholars from diverse backgrounds to inquire into the question how and why political regimes should resist the current autocratization turn. 

Sonja Grimm contributes a paper on the European Union’s way of policy adaption towards the European Neighbourhood in the light of rising authoritarianism.

Based on the Brussels conference, a follow-up authors’ workshop is planned to take place in Berlin.

More about the conference and the program can be found here.