Table of Contents

Contents

1.   In place of an introduction: the lie of the land
2.   Modern and anti-modern
3.   The long view of democracy
4.   The left and democracy
5.   The rise of the anti-liberals
6.   The migration battlefield
7.   Dealing with Islam
8.   No empathy for freedom – the Germans and Ukraine
9.   The Russia complex
10.  Modernity and its discontents
11.  Ecology and freedom
12.  Civilizing capitalism
13.  Shaping globalization
14.  How we can relaunch the EU
15.  What is at stake

About the Author

Ralf Fücks is Co-Founder of the Centre for Liberal Modernity, a non-partisan organization that stands up for the defense and renewal of open society and looks for answers to the key challenges of our time.  Formerly President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, he was a leading figure in the German Green Party and Senator for Environment and Urban Development in Bremen.