Articles by Hugo Canihac

January 26, 2024

🌊 Understanding the illiberal challenge in Europe

Hugo Canihac

To understand the illiberal challenge to liberal democracy, write Gianfranco Baldini and Hugo Canihac, we need to consider three dimensions: how illiberalism emerged as a challenge in and from liberal societies, how populists implement illiberal practices, and how liberal institutions respond to the challenge raised by illiberals

Hugo Canihac

Associate Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg

Hugo studied political science and philosophy in Bordeaux, where he obtained his doctorate in 2017 with a thesis on the historical sociology of European integration.

He was a postdoctoral fellow in Hamburg and Brussels, and has been a visiting researcher at the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin and at the Historical Archives of European Integration in Florence.

His research focuses on the political sociology of European integration, the sociology of economic and legal knowledge, historical sociology and the social history of ideas.

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