Lecture by political scientist Adam Lazebnik “Politics in the world of Star Wars: the experience of autocracy”

They often talk a lot and loudly about democratization. How to go from an authoritarian regime to democracy and what is needed for this — a special culture, economic development, institutions, external participation? These questions are important and interesting. But democracy is a set of rules and institutions, and society does not always manage to evaluate these rules and institutions, much less follow them. Then there is a rollback or, in another way, autocratization The Star Wars universe perfectly demonstrates this rollback process. At our meeting, we will try to understand how such a rollback occurred in the world of Star Wars