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Liberal democ­racy has come under pres­sure from various quar­ters: from the outside by author­i­tar­ian regimes, from within by pop­ulist move­ments and parties. In this dossier, we want to combine ideas of a new liberalism.

Wednes­day October 14. 7 pm‑8.30 pm – via Zoom

Online-Panel Dis­cus­sion on October 6, 2020, with Gunther Krich­baum, Johannes Schraps, Renata Alt, Manuel Sar­razin und others.

Lessons learned from Covid-19: Ralf Fuecks dis­cusses with Anthony Giddens

Panel and online dis­cus­sion with Marie­luise Beck, Vla­di­mir Kara-Murza und Michael McFaul on 9 Sep­tem­ber 2020, 7 pm CET

As part of our project “Eastern Part­ner­ship 2.0” we publish a series of arti­cles about the three EU asso­ci­a­tion states (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova). Three authors from the region (Paata Gaprindashvili, Mariam...

As part of our project “Eastern Part­ner­ship 2.0” we publish a series of arti­cles about the three EU asso­ci­a­tion states (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova). Three authors from the region (Paata Gaprindashvili, Mariam...

As part of our project “Eastern Part­ner­ship 2.0” we publish a series of arti­cles about the three EU asso­ci­a­tion states (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova). Three authors from the region (Paata Gaprindashvili, Mariam...

Ukraine is under­go­ing pro­found trans­for­ma­tion. One click will take you to the website www.ukraineverstehen.de, where you will find infor­ma­tion, analy­ses and reports on the latest devel­op­ments in the country. With a dedicated...

The Russian Gov­ern­ment is trying to get access to the inter­net – perhaps the most impor­tant refuge for freedom of speech. Cyber­space is increas­ingly restricted through state cen­sor­ship: state pressure...

This aim of LibMod’s “Liberal Democ­racy and Its Adver­saries” project is to examine the “long lines” of antilib­eral thought and discuss its rel­e­vance for the debate of today. The project’s...

An inter­view with Dr. Ulana Suprun, former acting min­is­ter of Health of Ukraine (2016–2019) on the government’s response to COVID-19, includ­ing an erratic com­mu­ni­ca­tion strat­egy, a lack of trans­parency and corruption...

Der belaru­sian Pres­i­dent leaves it to ortho­dox priests und the KGB to fight the epi­demic. The people are getting more and more upset because the gov­ern­ment can no longer hide...

Eco-inno­­va­­tions, eco­nomic oppor­tu­ni­ties and social par­tic­i­pa­tion in times of climate change are the sub­jects of this book, edited by Ralf Fücks and Thomas Köhler, in which widely acclaimed authors discuss...

For decades, Sinol­o­gists who were largely blind to China’s expan­sive power pol­i­tics have dom­i­nated Germany’s polit­i­cal advice circles, cul­ti­vat­ing an image of China that our author calls “Late Ori­en­tal­ism”. Shaped...

With the annex­a­tion of Crimea and the unde­clared war in Eastern Ukraine, the Russian lead­er­ship gravely vio­lates the prin­ci­ples of the Euro­pean peace order. In response, the Par­lia­men­tary Assem­bly of...

The elec­tions on April 8, 2018 gave Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party another two-thirds major­ity in par­lia­ment. Attila Juhasz explains why this does not imply a broad support for the concept of ‘illib­erale democ­racy’. The hungarian...

The anti-liberal revolt ist not limited to the US and Europe. Ten­den­cies towards an ‘illib­eral democ­racy’ and ethnic nation­al­ism can be observed in Israel as well. The Israeli author Dahlia...

On March 13 the Center Liberal Moder­nity held its first inter­na­tional con­fer­ence on Russia. The event’s main inten­tion was gaining a deeper under­stand­ing of the Putin System and to find out...

A Russian agent who switched sides is attacked with a mil­i­­tary-grade nerve agent in a provin­cial English town. Prime Min­is­ter May holds Moscow respon­si­ble for the attack. Are we back in the...

What the deci­sion for another „Grand Coali­tion” led by Chan­cel­lor Merkel implies for Germany, EU and the Transat­lantic Alliance.

During the elec­tion cam­paign, appeal­ing to people’s anger and demo­niz­ing the oppo­nents is the most common strat­egy. Polit­i­cal pro­grams hardly matter. The polit­i­cal land­scape is highly frag­mented. In elec­tion polls,...

Reca­pit­u­la­tion of a fal­ter­ing peace process: the second Minsk Agree­ment of Feb­ru­ary 2015, intended to put an end to the war in eastern Ukraine and to set a polit­i­cal process in motion,...

The five AfD Members of the Bun­destag from Saxony are among the most radical in the party’s (Alter­na­tive for Germany) par­lia­men­tary group. At a party event near Pirna, the party base...

The rapid devel­op­ment of wind and solar energy alone will not put an end to climate change. Green­house gas emis­sions con­tinue to rise around the world. Even Germany has not...

What’s the Center for Liberal Moder­nity is about.