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Political and social orders refer to the norms and principles according to which societies and political systems are organized. Order contestation emerges when dominant orders are being challenged by state and non-state actors. After the end of the Cold War the Western liberal order (rules-based international order, democracy, free market) was the dominant political and social order throughout the world. But nowadays liberal order is being challenged both by domestic competitors (right-wing and left-wing populists) and external illiberal actors (Russia, China, ISIS). This seminar will explore how this order contestation takes place in EU’s proximate neighborhood regions: Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. The seminar is case study-based. After brief conceptual and theoretical introduction each session will analyze how order contestation unfolds in one or few countries of EU’s neighborhood in the context of competitive regionalism between the EU, the US, Russia, China and other global and regional actors. |
