Modernisation and the paradox of right and rights

Abstract

The research behind this paper has been directed towards identifying the governance mechanisms focused on the protection of the human rights, being accompanied by studies that have defined states and processes occurring in societies that are increasingly interconnected. Several stages are shown when referring to these studies: identification of the demands made by citizens towards institutions and authorities; definition of the government’s perspective on the issues of the citizens and the society; determination of solutions so that in the Republic of Moldova the transition to a modernized society occurs, in which rights and freedoms are protected. As a result, there have been identified several problems not only of conjunctural nature (such as the pandemic crisis and the war in the region, presented in the paper as a case study), which constitute impediments to the development of the Republic of Moldova, but also deeper problems rooted in society, such as lack of trust, lack of will, lack of integrity, lack of efficiency of legal institutions etc. All these have generated a paradoxical state of law and legal institutions. Thus, the article examines the combined analysis of the modernization-crisis-law concepts through theoretical and methodological incursions that make the individual-collective connection, highlighting the way modernization is seen in the Republic of Moldova and indicating the need to review the role of law in the society.