• FOREWORD

  Radek Špicar

• EDITORIAL: A Russian Phantasmagoria

  Aleksander Kaczorowski

Cover Story

• The Rise of Podemos

  José Ignacio Torreblanca

• The Return of the Radical Left

  Ivan Krastev

• How Syriza Came to Power

  John Psaropoulos

• The Left—Ghost of the Past or the Progressive Left in Germany?

  Ulrike Guérot

• In Search of Meaning: 21st Century Leftist Imaginarium

  Frank Furedi

• The Incomprehensible Left

  Martin M. Šimečka

The Interview

• Nuclear Nationalism Has Only Brought Misery

  Maciej Nowicki

• New Chinese Foreign Policy Strategy

  Bogdan Góralczyk

Politics

• Do Political Ideas Still Matter?

  Jan-Werner Müller

• Europe in 1815 and 2015

  Brendan Simms

• Europe and Russia

  Dominique Moisi

• The Elite in Russia Is Kept on a Leash by the Nation

  Filip Memches

• The Future of EU-Russia Relations

  Michal Šimečka

• A Post-Imperial Federation: Impossible or Inevitable?

  Yulia Zhuchkova

• Europe Has to Reckon with an Aggressive Russia

  Adam Černý

Economy

• The End of Equality

  Jan Sowa

• Corruption, Romanian Style

  Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

• Defending the Wrong Rule of Law

  Maciej Kisilowski

• Russia’s Non-Soviet Path

  Vladislav Inozemtsev

• Can Orbán Break Out of the Diplomatic Isolation?

  Péter Krekó & Bulcsú Hunyadi & Krisztián Szabados

• Has the Turnaround to Russia Been Good for the Czech Economy?

  Martin Ehl

Culture

• Masaryk and the Poles

  Aleksander Kaczorowski

• Phenomenological Space Cadets to the Rescue

  Aviezer Tucker

• Two Germanies, Two Cultures

  Robert Schuster

• The Animal Point of View

  Patrycja Pustkowiak

• Culture as a Source of Practice

  Tomasz Stawiszyński