South Korea's political crisis
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Ferry De Kerckhove (English & French)
Senior fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences
"South Korea's politics can be brutal but this is still a first and it could prove dangerously destabilizing in an already volatile region. Russia and North Korea will be watching as an American ally is destabilized as U.S. President Joe Biden has been left high and dry by President Yoon Suk."
Errol Mendes (English only)
Full professor, Faculty of Law, Common Law and former Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre.
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"South Korea represents an “authoritarian contagion.” I see this as a movement where democracies are taking lessons from other authoritarian leaders who have taken over liberal democratic societies, from Donald Trump in the United States to Viktor Orbán in Hungary, the current turmoil in Georgia and likely in some parts of Europe in the near future."