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Fernando Vallespín
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Institución Libre de Enseñanza, Gobierno de España, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación, Gobierno de España, Ministerio de Educación. Formación Profesional y Deportes, Gobierno de España, Ministerio de Cultura, Residencia de Estudiantes, Sello de Patrimonio Europeo, Fundación Ortega-Marañón.
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This seminar, organised in collaboration with the Residencia de Estudiantes, continues this cycle celebrated since 2021, and is part of the line of work about «Democracy and Tolerance». In the previous seminars they have analysed some of the current problems they face in our democracies, such as the expansion of populism or the patterns of political action of an illiberal nature which is testing our capacity of resilience as open societies. This year will reflect on the current situation of democracy, from a theoretical perspective aswell as through studies of comparative cases and the means of defense available. It will tackle the dynamic which leads democracy to the authoritarianism: a complex and diffuse border with variations in each country, so it is difficult to evaluate when a democratical system has become a «competitive authoritarianism».
APRIL
13 19:00 h (CET)
Fernando Vallespín
Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
«Democracy and authoritarianism: their links»
20 19:00 h (CET)
Andreas Hess
Lecturer at the University of Dublin and member of the Royal Academy of Ireland
«The crisis of the American democracy: are we against the end of american liberalism?»
27 19:00 h (CET)
Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán
Political scientist and professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Marta Peirano
Journalist and writer
«Technology and political power»
MAY
4 19:00 h (CET)
Anna Sroka
Ex-ambassador of Poland in Spain and professor at the University of Warsaw
Edit Inotai
Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy
«Democratical regression in Eastern Europe»
11 19:00 h (CET)
Steven Forti
Lecturer at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
«Authoratirianisms of yesterday and today»
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