Malaise dans la politique

Pierre Lantz, Malaise in Politics What will happen in Eastern Europe is cause for reflection about the méthodes of political analysis that proved incapable of foreseeing recent developments in that part of the world. Belief in the efficacy of force, in competence and in self interest, common to the majority of specialists, explains this blindness. The phenomenon can be described in terms of the way it is expressed in language, of the policies it inspires, and of how it applies social motivations taken to be universal norms (such as aggressive and destructive pulsions). In the terms of this point of view, notions such as « civil society » and « State » are articulated and analyzed differently, and are not opposed. Invoking an economic rationality becoming less and less credible (whether « liberal » or « socialist »), an affectivity wrongly considered archaic seems to be blurring previously accepted distinctions

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