• FOREWORD

  Radek Špicar

• EDITORIAL: Drang nach Westen

  Aleksander Kaczorowski

Cover Story

• The Authority of Democracy Exposed

  Frank Furedi

• The Consequences of German Unification for Europe

  Brendan Simms

• Lost in Transition: Struggles over Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Belarus

  Tatiana Zhurzhenko

• From Communism to Democracy without Democrats

  Jiří Pehe

• A Quarter-Century of “Really Existing” Capitalism

  Jan Sowa

• From Politics of Fearlessness to Politics of Fear

  Leonidas Donskis

The Interview

• Cultural Isolationism Has Prevailed.

  Filip Memches

• “Potato Soup” or “Kaleidoscope”? Occupy or Monitor?

  Petr Pithart

Politics

• Europe—the Forgotten Little Thing in the New Coalition Agreement?

  Ulrike Guérot

• Hungary and the EU

  Jan-Werner Müller

• Look Back in Prudence! Civil War Legacies and Crisis in Greece Today

  Iannis Carras

• Old Friends, New Leaders: Poland and Turkey in the Early 21stcentury

  Adam Balcer

• The Personal Is (Again) Political

  Ivaylo Ditchev

• Marián Kotleba: a Slovak as Well as a European Problem

  Michal Hvorecký

Economy

• The Beginning of a Lost Decade

  Vladislav Inozemtsev

• Europe Needs Protectionism

  Jean-Luc Gréau

• Steering Wheel Stuck on the Left

  Mojmír Hampl

• Why is Eastern Europe Backward

  Anna Sosnowska

• How to Trade Economic Independence for Political Sovereignty

  Eva Maurina

• From EURO Back to Europe

  Anis H. Bajrektarevic

Culture

• The Mysterious Death of Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997)

  Aleksander Kaczorowski

• Oscar Bronner: A Life in Defiance of Austria and Its Situation

  Robert Schuster

• The West in Crisis

  Katerina Šafaříková

• Revisionism and Resurrection

  Peter Jukes

• Ukrainisation of Urbanisation—Sociology of the City in the Ukraine

  Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin

• Noble and other Kolkhozy

  Wojciech Stanislawski