Preface / Thorbjørn Jagland -- Editor's note / Piotr Świtalski -- What is central in central Europe? / Zygmunt Bauman -- Europe at risk : a cosmopolitan perspective / Ulrich Beck -- The role of Islam in the democratic transformation of Arab countries : can Turkish laicism be a model? / Ayşe Kadioğlu -- Democracy in the age of Google, Facebook and WikiLeaks / John Keane -- Europe in crisis : is liberal democracy at risk? / Ivan Krastev -- Over-managed democracy and its limitations / Nikolay Petrov -- Europe and the democratisation of its neighbourhoods / Jacques Rupnik -- Europe in times of change : governance, democratic empowerment and the information age / Z̆iga Turk