No. 10 (2012): Belgique : sortir de crise(s)

Coordinated by Stéphane Baele.

This issue of Émulations is, to our knowledge, the first of its kind to be entirely devoted to studying the Belgian political crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2011. Thanks to contributions anchored in various scientific domains, this issue proposes a complex and unusual reading of this political episode, replacing it at the confluence of structural, historical, psychological, sociological and political dynamics. Going beyond the usual descriptions of ratios of power and influence of factions and parties, the authors shed light on the general difficulty shared by contemporary states: how to adapt when it is needed the most, when crisis paradoxically becomes the norm. Belgium is faced with this difficulty in a specific way that calls for the innovative but realist reforms that are mentioned throughout this issue.