The paper ‘From status quo to status reform: Account­able Gov­er­nance in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova’ argues that greater pri­or­ity should be attached to the rule of law and demo­c­ra­tic governance...

Tra­di­tional oppo­si­tion parties and move­ments has long seized to be a polit­i­cally mean­ing­ful force in Belarus. It is time for Western deci­­sion-makers to finally admit this unpleas­ant reality and shift its...

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...

There can be no liberal moder­nity without social justice, which is why nothing can surpass the social demo­c­ra­tic idea, which has been mar­gin­al­ized in the current SPD. Anyone, who is...

The rapid pace of mod­erni­sa­tion renders people sus­cep­ti­ble to pop­ulism. In cos­mopoli­tan milieus, this came as a sur­prise. Yet the warning signs had long been apparent.