Several opportunities arise for rule of law promoters: to reclaim the security discourse; to expl... more Several opportunities arise for rule of law promoters: to reclaim the security discourse; to explain EU enlargement through the commitment to the rule of law; and consequently, to develop a strategy to influence opponents of enlargement.
The study of the legal systems in time and space, that is the comparative law, allows the reducti... more The study of the legal systems in time and space, that is the comparative law, allows the reduction of legal differences consecutive to the temporary or contingent circumstances. However, the differences between the legal systems does not exclude a permanent tendency in the unification of the law, in particular when it’s a question of the guarantee of the State under the Rule of law and the correspondence to the requirements put by European laws and community. The introduction of the European constitutional justice appears as a result of a slow evolution of the ideas and the concept of democracy. Hans Kelsen's constitutional positivism dedicates, from the theory of the gradual construction of Law, the requirement of control of constitutionality, exercised by a unique Jurisdiction, to guarantee the principle of hierarchy in the standards and coherence of the legal order. The categories which qualify the French constitutional Council and the Serbian constitutional Court must be en...
Il existe, entre la Serbie et la France, une veritable communaute scientifique en ce qui concerne... more Il existe, entre la Serbie et la France, une veritable communaute scientifique en ce qui concerne le droit public. En effet, depuis le XIXe siecle, si l’on se penche sur l’histoire, les publicistes serbes et francais s’interrogent sur les memes problemes relatifs a l’Etat et sa perennite. Ceci n’a rien d’etonnant car la Serbie, comme la France, a sa place dans le cadre de l’espace europeen contemporain et repond a ses modeles. Les concepts de droit public que nous connaissons, par rapport au cas etudie, sont de deux types : nous pouvons distinguer les concepts de processus, qui temoignent d’une dynamique particuliere, et les concepts de cas, qui nous amenent a une analyse statique. Concernant les premiers, il est question de transition democratique, transition constitutionnelle, succession d’Etats, dislocation, secession, separation d’Etats et internationalisation du droit public. Pour les seconds, il s’agit des concepts d’Etat, personnalite morale, d’Etat constitutionnel, souverainete, Etat compose (etat federe, regional, autonomies), Etat de droit, democratie et administration internationale. Il ne nous a pas semble necessaire de creer d’autres concepts. En effet, la plupart des points problematiques rappellent les grandes theories, plus ou moins directement. Dans le cadre de notre recherche il a bien ete question de faire un bilan de ces theories, au regard d’un cas concret : la Republique de Serbie depuis, 1990, au moment de l’introduction du pluripartisme, dans la Yougoslavie titiste mourante. Le but de cette analyse est de proposer notre contribution car nous n’avons pas la pretention de fonder une nouvelle theorie de l’Etat. Mais au vu des mecanismes du droit, comme outil nous permettant de penser l’Etat, le cas de la Serbie, depuis 1990, et ses donnees specifiques, nous amenent a engager une piste de reflexion sur l’Etat tel qu’il peut etre pense et critique, en ce debut de XXIe siecle.
Illiberal Democracies in Europe: An Authoritarian Response to the Crisis of Liberalism, 2023
Published by George Washington University: Illiberalism Studies Program, The Institute for Europe... more Published by George Washington University: Illiberalism Studies Program, The Institute for European Russian and Eurasian Studies The Abstract Our sense in editing this book is that the years since 2014 have shown that, however unpalatable, incoherent, and internally contradictory illiberal democracy may be, it is a political choice that is available at the ballot box in many countries. As critical scholars committed to democracy we have an obligation to understand its socio-historical construction, its emotional appeal, and its rhetorical force, to more effectively combat it. Ultimately, we believe that the difficulty many have had of admitting the political efficacy of illiberal democracy as a term is due to an underlying crisis within liberalism itself: this is the fissured terrain that the phenomenon exploits. Examining illiberalism, liberalism, or democracy as static concepts is just as barren an approach as examining them in one country in isolation from their interactions with others. It is above all to the dynamic, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of liberalism and its alternatives that this collection aims to contribute.
Several opportunities arise for rule of law promoters: to reclaim the security discourse; to expl... more Several opportunities arise for rule of law promoters: to reclaim the security discourse; to explain EU enlargement through the commitment to the rule of law; and consequently, to develop a strategy to influence opponents of enlargement.
The study of the legal systems in time and space, that is the comparative law, allows the reducti... more The study of the legal systems in time and space, that is the comparative law, allows the reduction of legal differences consecutive to the temporary or contingent circumstances. However, the differences between the legal systems does not exclude a permanent tendency in the unification of the law, in particular when it’s a question of the guarantee of the State under the Rule of law and the correspondence to the requirements put by European laws and community. The introduction of the European constitutional justice appears as a result of a slow evolution of the ideas and the concept of democracy. Hans Kelsen's constitutional positivism dedicates, from the theory of the gradual construction of Law, the requirement of control of constitutionality, exercised by a unique Jurisdiction, to guarantee the principle of hierarchy in the standards and coherence of the legal order. The categories which qualify the French constitutional Council and the Serbian constitutional Court must be en...
Il existe, entre la Serbie et la France, une veritable communaute scientifique en ce qui concerne... more Il existe, entre la Serbie et la France, une veritable communaute scientifique en ce qui concerne le droit public. En effet, depuis le XIXe siecle, si l’on se penche sur l’histoire, les publicistes serbes et francais s’interrogent sur les memes problemes relatifs a l’Etat et sa perennite. Ceci n’a rien d’etonnant car la Serbie, comme la France, a sa place dans le cadre de l’espace europeen contemporain et repond a ses modeles. Les concepts de droit public que nous connaissons, par rapport au cas etudie, sont de deux types : nous pouvons distinguer les concepts de processus, qui temoignent d’une dynamique particuliere, et les concepts de cas, qui nous amenent a une analyse statique. Concernant les premiers, il est question de transition democratique, transition constitutionnelle, succession d’Etats, dislocation, secession, separation d’Etats et internationalisation du droit public. Pour les seconds, il s’agit des concepts d’Etat, personnalite morale, d’Etat constitutionnel, souverainete, Etat compose (etat federe, regional, autonomies), Etat de droit, democratie et administration internationale. Il ne nous a pas semble necessaire de creer d’autres concepts. En effet, la plupart des points problematiques rappellent les grandes theories, plus ou moins directement. Dans le cadre de notre recherche il a bien ete question de faire un bilan de ces theories, au regard d’un cas concret : la Republique de Serbie depuis, 1990, au moment de l’introduction du pluripartisme, dans la Yougoslavie titiste mourante. Le but de cette analyse est de proposer notre contribution car nous n’avons pas la pretention de fonder une nouvelle theorie de l’Etat. Mais au vu des mecanismes du droit, comme outil nous permettant de penser l’Etat, le cas de la Serbie, depuis 1990, et ses donnees specifiques, nous amenent a engager une piste de reflexion sur l’Etat tel qu’il peut etre pense et critique, en ce debut de XXIe siecle.
Illiberal Democracies in Europe: An Authoritarian Response to the Crisis of Liberalism, 2023
Published by George Washington University: Illiberalism Studies Program, The Institute for Europe... more Published by George Washington University: Illiberalism Studies Program, The Institute for European Russian and Eurasian Studies The Abstract Our sense in editing this book is that the years since 2014 have shown that, however unpalatable, incoherent, and internally contradictory illiberal democracy may be, it is a political choice that is available at the ballot box in many countries. As critical scholars committed to democracy we have an obligation to understand its socio-historical construction, its emotional appeal, and its rhetorical force, to more effectively combat it. Ultimately, we believe that the difficulty many have had of admitting the political efficacy of illiberal democracy as a term is due to an underlying crisis within liberalism itself: this is the fissured terrain that the phenomenon exploits. Examining illiberalism, liberalism, or democracy as static concepts is just as barren an approach as examining them in one country in isolation from their interactions with others. It is above all to the dynamic, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of liberalism and its alternatives that this collection aims to contribute.
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The Abstract
Our sense in editing this book is that the years since 2014 have shown that, however unpalatable, incoherent, and internally contradictory illiberal democracy may be, it is a political choice that is available at the ballot box in many countries. As critical scholars committed to democracy we have an obligation to understand its socio-historical construction, its emotional appeal, and its rhetorical force, to more effectively combat it. Ultimately, we believe that the difficulty many have had of admitting the political efficacy of illiberal democracy as a term is due to an underlying crisis within liberalism itself: this is the fissured terrain that the phenomenon exploits. Examining illiberalism, liberalism, or democracy as static concepts is just as barren an approach as examining them in one country in isolation from their interactions with others. It is above all to the dynamic, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of liberalism and its alternatives that this collection aims to contribute.
The Abstract
Our sense in editing this book is that the years since 2014 have shown that, however unpalatable, incoherent, and internally contradictory illiberal democracy may be, it is a political choice that is available at the ballot box in many countries. As critical scholars committed to democracy we have an obligation to understand its socio-historical construction, its emotional appeal, and its rhetorical force, to more effectively combat it. Ultimately, we believe that the difficulty many have had of admitting the political efficacy of illiberal democracy as a term is due to an underlying crisis within liberalism itself: this is the fissured terrain that the phenomenon exploits. Examining illiberalism, liberalism, or democracy as static concepts is just as barren an approach as examining them in one country in isolation from their interactions with others. It is above all to the dynamic, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of liberalism and its alternatives that this collection aims to contribute.