Lecture ’Human Rights and Populism: USA, Hungary and Serbia in Comparative Perspective’

Dr Zoran Lutovac gave a lecture titled ’Human Rights in Populism: USA, Hungary and Serbia in Comparative Perspective’ on 19 May at the SASA Hall 2.

The lecture focused on human rights through the lens of populism, examining them in three distinct political contexts which include the United States of America, Hungary and Serbia. There were three fundamental factors at the base of the comparative analysis: the relation toward the people and the elite, the attitude toward the representative democracy and the use of the concept ‘dangerous others’.

The lecture also examined how the universal characteristics of populism are adapted to various geopolitical and historical circumstances, and what implications these processes have for human rights and the stability of democratic institutions, i.e., for liberal-democratic values in society.