The lecture “Trump’s America and the Decline of Liberal Democracy, ” presented by Jean-Marie Ruiz, associate professor at theLaboratoire Langages, Literature, Societies – Transborder and International Studies(LLSETI),Facultyof Letters, Languages, and Humanities, will take place onTuesday, February 11, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. at the USMB administration building in Chambéry.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Contrary to what the end of the Cold War had suggested, the liberal order—broadly defined as the rule of law, representative democracy, the market economy, free trade, and multilateralism—is now facing competition almost everywhere in the world. Even in Western countries, illiberal and authoritarian democracies are emerging that favor order, nationalism, and unilateralism. In the United States, Donald Trump, unlike his predecessor Barack Obama, seems determined to dismantle the liberal order and refrain from promoting democracy around the world. In this unprecedented context, characterized by Trump's slogan "America First" and the irresistible rise of China, is the liberal order doomed to decline for good?