Center for Liberal Modernism

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The Center for Liberal Modernism
task Defense of Open Society and Liberal Democracy
management Ralf Fücks (Managing Director), Marieluise Beck (Director Eastern Europe)
Establishment date 2017
Seat Berlin
Website libmod.de

The center Liberal modernity is a German think tank , the 2017 from the Greens -Politiker-couple Marieluise Beck and Ralf Fücks was founded. Since 2019, the center has received financial support from the federal budget as part of institutional funding .

Alignment

The center advocates Germany's ties to the West and transatlantic relations between Europe and North America. It advocates a determined approach to the Russian government under Vladimir Putin and sees the Kremlin as an opponent of the West. Managing director Ralf Fücks is co-author of the “Transatlantic Manifesto”, which was published in October 2017 in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . The dispute between liberal democracies and authoritarian societies holds the center for the most important political conflict in the next few years. Under liberal democracy , it is the connection of individual freedom , social cohesion, personal responsibility and strong public institutions .

Projects

With initial support from the International Renaissance Foundation , the center operates the “Understanding Ukraine” themed portal, which it uses to promote “critical sympathy for Ukraine”. Ukraine describes the center as the central arena of the conflict between democracy and authoritarianism. The thematic portal “Understanding Ukraine” is now being funded by Engagement Global with funds from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Federal President a. D. Joachim Gauck at the opening of the Center for Liberal Modernism on November 15, 2017 in Berlin

The expert commission “Security in Transition”, financed by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation and chaired by Ralf Fücks, developed recommendations on how liberal democracies can react to fundamental changes caused by digitization, globalization and migration.

The project “Liberal Democracy and its Opponents” examines the history of ideas of anti-liberal thinking and will live from the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs from the Federal Democracy Program! and the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

Legal form, shareholder and advisory board

The center has the legal form of a non-profit GmbH . Ralf Fücks is a full-time managing director.

The center is supported by a committee of twelve members, including Deidre Berger, director of the American Jewish Committee Berlin Office / Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations, the former SPD member of the Bundestag Gert Weisskirchen , head of the Politics and External Relations department at Daimler AG Eckart von Klaeden , Alexandra von Lambsdorff , the deputy chairwoman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , the former US ambassador John Kornblum and the education minister of Schleswig-Holstein Karin Prien .

The work of the center is supported by an international advisory board, including the Ukrainian writer Jurij Andruchowytsch , the former GDR civil rights activist and former head of the Stasi records authority Marianne Birthler , the winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize and human rights activist Swetlana Gannuschkina , the former member of the European Parliament Rebecca Harms , the spokesman for the Muslim Forum Germany Ahmad Mansour , the former Foreign Minister of the GDR Markus Meckel , the sociologist Armin Nassehi , the president of the German Society for East European Studies and former CDU member of the Bundestag Ruprecht Polenz and the historian Timothy Snyder .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thorsten Jungholt: Two Greens have a central idea for Jamaica . In: Die Welt from November 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ Tobias Schulze: Green ex-politicians establish think tank: Transatlantic retirement . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 16, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 12, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Liberal Modern Think Tank opens in Berlin . In: bild.de . ( bild.de [accessed on April 13, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Marieluise Beck: Russia: Our indulgence increases Putin's appetite . In: THE WORLD . March 18, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed April 12, 2018]).
  5. ^ Transatlantic Partnership: In spite of it all: America . In: The time . October 18, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 13, 2018]).
  6. ↑ The defense of the open society - “You need more passion on the democratic side” . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on April 13, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Understand Ukraine. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Our projects - libmod.de . In: libmod.de . ( libmod.de [accessed on April 13, 2018]).
  9. ^ Commission at Kretschmann's request - Mannheimer Morgen . ( Morgenweb.de [accessed on April 13, 2018]).
  10. ↑ The expert commission “Security in Transition” introduces itself . In: libmod.de . February 28, 2018 ( libmod.de [accessed April 13, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Expert commission “Security in Transition” presents results . ( baden-wuerttemberg.de [accessed on March 22, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Project website "Opponent Analysis". Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Register entry at the District Court of Berlin-Charlottenburg, No. HRB 188204: Zentrum liberale Moderne non-profit GmbH
  14. ↑ shareholders - libmod.de . In: libmod.de . ( libmod.de [accessed on May 24, 2018]).
  15. ↑ America Jewish Committee Berlin. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
  16. ^ Shareholders - About us on the think tank's website