Liberal democracy is under pressure worldwide. It is challenged by anti-liberal movements and parties as well as by authoritarian regimes. Liberalism as a cross-party movement and a broad way of thinking has fallen into the defensive and is often associated with market radicalism, social coldness, and ecological ignorance. The contributors show that liberalism as a school of thought is not dead. In their essays, they present ideas and approaches for new liberal concepts to cope with the great challenges of our time: from climate change, globalization, and the digital revolution to transnational migration and the increasing systemic competition between democracies and authoritarian regimes.

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Ralf Fücks is founder and managing director of the Center for Liberal Modernity.
Rainald Manthe is sociologist and author. He was director of the program »liberal democracy« at the Center for Liberal Modernity. His dissertation was on transnational meetings of social movements and he writes regularly on issues of democratic development.