Should we postulate a triangulation in which we look at the phenomena of liberalism, populism and democracy as independent elements that can be looked at individually but also in a variety of possible combinations and not necessarily constituting a “natural triad”? The two panels assembled speakers from around Europe and the States: Ivan Krastev, Katerina Kolozova, Ivan Vejvoda, Venelin Ganev and Adam Ramsey.
The opening speech entitled Varieties of populism: sources, challenges, constraints was given by Jacques Rupnik, the leading academic expert on the Central-European region and former advisor to Czech President Václav Havel, Director of Research at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Professor at Science Po in Paris and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.
The event is jointly organized by “Europe’s Futures” project of the Institute for the Human Sciences (IWM) and the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (Skopje, North Macedonia).
