Article: The Liberal and Illiberal Politics of Rights in East Central Europe

12/06/2024

Michal Kopeček, head of the Department of Ideas and Concepts at the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague has written about rights as „a double-edged sword“ on the Website of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), based in Vienna.

From the 1960s on, a great deal of politics became the politics of rights in the Western world. In East Central Europe, jumping on the bandwagon in 1989, the politics of rights was turbo-boosted by liberal democratic transformation and EU integration. Today, the illiberal politics of rights seems to be a mirror image of its liberal predecessor.

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