IWMpost 107: How's Democracy Doing?

Contents

News

• “Good Jobs” in a “Good Economy”—by János M. Kovács

Debating Europe

• A Plan B for Europe
• “Facebook Revolutions don’t produce social glue”— by Charles Taylor and Sławomir Sierakowski

Conference on Religion and Secularism

• Secularism, Still Alive—by Tariq Modood
• The Mosque and the State—by Nader Hashemi

Conference on the Balkans

• The Birth of Nations—by Timothy Snyder
• Unwanted Citizens—by Constantin Iordachi

Conference on Jan Patočka

• Der Schleier der Vernunft–von Ludger Hagedorn
• Nietzsche’s Challenge—by James Dodd

Lectures and Discussions

Essays on Postsocialism

• Sex After Socialism—by Ivan Bernik
• Serbia’s Guilty Pleasures—by Vukša Veličković

From the Fellows

• Vom Simulakrum zum Fetisch–von Christine Blättler

Fellows and Guests, Varia

Publications

Guest contributions

• Changing Media, Changing Democracy—by Marc F. Plattner
• Der gläserne Bürger–von Michael Naumann