General theory of democracy. Democracy and rights: the greatest dilemma of our times / Daniel Bell ; Democracy as spectre, dream and reality / John Dunn ; "Universal value" at its "natural limit"? / Vladislav Inozemtsev ; From agora to the marketplace -- where to from here? / Zygmunt Bauman ; Democracy - state - market and modernization in Eastern Europe / Piotr Dutkiewicz ; Overturning the authoritarian majority - not an easy task / Mark Urnov -- Realities of democratization. From the 19th to the 21st democracy: what is next step? / Alexei Miller ; Democracy in China: challenge or opportunity? / Yu Keping ; Democracy and how it is used in Russia / Gleb Pavlovsky ; Democracy and dissatisfaction / Ivan Krastev -- Democracy and modernization. Modernization and democracy / Ronald Inglehart ; Democratization and modernization in the context of the transformation of post-Soviet states / Andrei Ryabov ; Democracy vs. efficiency: the challenge of the 21st century / Parag Khanna ; From authoritarianism to democracy along the paths of modernization: from the general to the specific / Victor Krasilshchikov ; Market-states and post-democracy / Adrian Pabst -- Democracy in the world. Less means more: the moral virtue of political minimalism / Amitai Etzioni ; Hope for global democracy as a challenge to the 21st century/ Daniele Archibugi ; Democracy in the era of limited sovereignty / Ekaterina Kuznetsova ; New debates over global democracy and international democracy promotion / Thomas Carothers.