The conference"Trump's America and the Decline of Liberal Democracy," presented by Jean-Marie Ruiz, senior lecturer atthe Language, Literature, Societies – Cross-Border and International Studies(LLSETI),Facultyof Arts, Languages, and Humanities, will take place onThursday, October 1, 2020, at 6:30 p.m. Please note the change of venue: the lecture will take place at the Cité Scolaire Jeanne d'Arc and no longer at the Albertville Media Library.
The conferences will take place subject to the health conditions related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic and in compliance with the safety guidelines in force at the venue hosting the event.
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?