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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK MICHAELIGNATIEFFisRectorandPresident ANNEAPPLEBAUM I ERICABENNER I DOROTHEEBOHLE NR The key values of Open Society – freedom, E WE ofCentralEuropeanUniversityinBudapest THOMASCHRISTIANO I TIMCRANE I NIALLFERGUSON T justice, tolerance, democracy and respect for A andformerProfessorattheHarvardKennedy DH knowledge – are increasingly under threat in TIMOTHYGARTONASH I BÉLAGRESKOVITS I MICHAEL V School. EIN today's world. As an effort to uphold those R IGNATIEFF I ROBERTKAPLAN I JÁNOSKIS I IVANKRASTEV SK values,thisvolumebringstogethersomeof A RI thekeypolitical,socialandeconomicthinkers STEFANROCHisapost-doctoralresearcher MARK LILLA I MARGARET MACMILLAN I JAN-WERNER IEN SG ofourtimetore-examinetheOpenSociety attheRectorateatCentralEuropeanUniversity. A MÜLLER I ALINA MUNGIU-PIPPIDI I STEFAN ROCH NO closelyintermsofitshistory,itsachievements D andfailures,anditsfutureprospects.Basedon P PIERRE ROSANVALLON I JACQUES RUPNIK I ANDRÁS N EE thelectureseriesRethinkingOpenSociety, W N SAJÓ I DANIELA SCHWARZER I ROGER SCRUTON O which took place between 2017 and 2018 PS atCentralEuropeanUniversity,thevolumeis STEPHEN WALT POO RETHINKING R deeplyembeddedinthehistoryandpurpose TC UI ofCEU,itsOpenSocietymission,anditsbelief NE O P E N I ineducatingscepticalbutpassionatecitizens. TT I EY S E S O C I E T Y D I T E D B Y M I C H CentralEuropeanUniversityPress S A NEW ADVERSARIES AND T E Budapest–NewYork E L FA IG NEW OPPORTUNITIES N SalesandInformation: N A R T [email protected] O I E C F http://www.ceupress.com H F ISBN9789633862704 EDITED BY MICHAELIGNATIEFF STEFANROCH RETHINKING OPEN SOCIETY c18 Rethinking 00 book.indb 1 2018.06.11. 15:21 c18 Rethinking 00 book.indb 2 2018.06.11. 15:21 R ETHINK ING OPEN SOCIETY New Adversaries and New Opportunities Edited by Michael Ignatieff Stefan Roch Central European University Press Budapest–New York c18 Rethinking 00 book.indb 3 2018.06.11. 15:21 © 2018 Michael Ignatieff and Stefan Roch Published in 2018 by Central European University Press Nádor utca 9, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36-1-327-3138 or 327-3000 Fax: +36-1-327-3183 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ceupress.com 224 West 57th Street, New York NY 10019, USA All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the permission of the Publisher. ISBN 978-963-386-270-4 Cover design by Stefan Roch and Éva Szalay Library of Congress Control Number: 2018945713 Printed in Hungary by Prime-Rate Kft., Budapest c18 Rethinking 00 book.indb 4 2018.06.11. 15:21 Table of Contents Acknowledgments .............................................................................. ix Introduction by Michael Ignatieff ....................................................... 1 I. The Open Society Ideal: For and Against Open Society as an Oxymoron: A Conversation between Mark Lilla and Michael Ignatieff Mark Lilla and Michael Ignatieff .......................................................... 19 The Open Society from a Conservative Perspective Roger Scruton ..................................................................................... 31 Educating Skeptical but Passionate Citizens: The Open Society Ideal as a University Mission Stefan Roch ......................................................................................... 47 II. Open Society in Practice: Democracy, Rule of Law, Free Speech and Secularism Democracy Defended and Challenged Thomas Christiano .............................................................................. 65 Free Speech and the Defence of an Open Society Timothy Garton Ash ............................................................................ 79 Religion in the Open Society Tim Crane .......................................................................................... 91 c18 Rethinking 00 book.indb 5 2018.06.11. 15:21 vi Table of Contents Constitutionalism in Closing Societies Andras Sajo ........................................................................................ 105 III. Open Society in 21st Century Geopolitics War and Open Society in the Twentieth Century Margaret MacMillan ........................................................................... 121 Open Societies at Home and Abroad Stephen M. Walt .................................................................................. 137 Eurasia, Europe, and the Question of U.S. Leadership Robert Kaplan ..................................................................................... 147 The Open Society in a Networked World Niall Ferguson ..................................................................................... 157 Germany and the Fate of Open Society Daniela Schwarzer .............................................................................. 171 IV. Open Society’s New Enemies: The Authoritarian Competitors The Puzzle of “Illiberal Democracy” János Kis ............................................................................................. 179 How Can Populism Be Defeated? Jan-Werner Müller .............................................................................. 195 Beyond Demagoguery? The Contemporary Crisis of Political Communication Erica Benner ....................................................................................... 211 Populism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century Pierre Rosanvallon .............................................................................. 227 The Enduring Appeal of the One-Party State Anne Applebaum ................................................................................. 243 V. From Transition to Backsliding: Did Open Societies Fail? After 1989: The Perennial Return of Central Europe Reflections on the Sources of the Illiberal Drift in Central Europe Jacques Rupnik .................................................................................... 257 c18 Rethinking 00 book.indb 6 2018.06.11. 15:21 Table of Contents vii Perhapsburg: Reflections on the Fragility and Resilience of Europe Ivan Krastev ........................................................................................ 271 Capitalism and Democracy in East Central Europe: A Sequence of Crises Dorothee Bohle .................................................................................... 281 Civic Activism, Economic Nationalism, and Welfare for the Better Off: Pillars of Hungary’s Illiberal State Béla Greskovits .................................................................................... 295 Corruption: The Ultimate Frontier of Open Society Alina Mungiu-Pippidi ......................................................................... 311 Conclusions: The Future of the Open Society Ideal Michael Ignatieff ................................................................................ 329 About the Contributors ...................................................................... 337 Index .................................................................................................. 339 c18 Rethinking 00 book.indb 7 2018.06.11. 15:21 c18 Rethinking 00 book.indb 8 2018.06.11. 15:21 Acknowledgements The editors would like to express their gratitude to the contributors to this volume for standing with CEU, for delivering such insightful talks and then for working with the editors to turn their lectures into enduring contribu- tions to the debate on open society. We are deeply indebted to Kinga Ágnes Páll for her invaluable work both during the lecture series and the production of the book. Her administrative support was essential to our work. We are thankful to CEU Press for pro- viding crucial editorial and publishing support throughout the production- process of this volume, particularly Linda Kúnos for providing publishing support, Ilse Josepha Maria Lazaroms for copy-editing and Éva Szalay for helping with the cover-design. We are grateful to all the people at CEU that were involved in the Rethinking Open Society Series and made it such a success. This includes the CEU Communications office and their excel- lent promotional work, particularly by Adri Bruckner, Colleen Sharkey and Peter Lorenz; it includes Zsolt Ilija, Réka Bálint and Andrea Csele from CEU’s Event and Space Management office for providing crucial event support, as well as all the student transcribers who helped us turning talks into manu- scripts. Considering all this, we are proud to consider this publication a CEU community effort. c18 Rethinking 00 book.indb 9 2018.06.11. 15:21
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