| Acknowledgements | v |
| Foreword | xiii |
| Introduction | xv |
| An Album of Civic Stories | |
| from "Thinking and Living" | 23 |
| "Where, After All, Do Human Rights Begin?" | 25 |
| Democracy on the Ground | |
| The Long Road | |
| The Democratic Legacy of Genghis Khan | 26 |
| "The Project of Democracy" from The Right to Vote | 29 |
| "A Blood American" from Jefferson's Pillow | 30 |
| from Long Walk to Freedom | 33 |
| The Monteiseinos Virus | 33 |
| "What Kind of Justice?" | 40 |
| "Nomonde Calata" | 44 |
| Make Justice a Reality | 45 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt's Call to Action | 46 |
| Bold Moves | |
| "What the Protesters in Genoa Want" | 48 |
| Peter Eigen's Crusade Against Corruption | 50 |
| Coming of Age as a Citizen in Tajikistan | 52 |
| from "Who Really Brought Down Milosevic?" | 54 |
| Dissent in the University: Azerbaijan, 2000 | 58 |
| Thinking and Learning | |
| "Richer Than Rockefeller" | 60 |
| Parent Education of the Civic Kind | 63 |
| "Three Skills That Students Need to Become Citizen-Leaders" | 64 |
| You Can Create a New School | 67 |
| Choosing the Future | |
| "Iranian Village Shapes a Model of Democracy" | 69 |
| Sicily Says "Enough!" | 74 |
| Bogota | 78 |
| Newark Confronts Its Past--and Chooses Its Future | 82 |
| Newark Now | 84 |
| Togliatti, A Russian Town on the Move | 87 |
| Reflections After the Terror | |
| A Letter of Sympathy | 89 |
| "Notes on Prejudice" | 90 |
| "What Terror Keeps Teaching Us" | 93 |
| "Nowhere Man" | 95 |
| from "This Is a Religious War" | 97 |
| "Terror's Aftermath: U.S. Strengths Are Terrorist Opportunities" | 99 |
| The Globalization of Justice | 101 |
| "My Islam" | 102 |
| The Handbook | |
| Basic Elements of Democracy | |
1 | Democratic Imperatives: Trust, Goodwill, Idealism | |
| Introduction | 109 |
| Discussion Questions | 110 |
| Readings | |
| from "The Faces of Democracy--Looking to the Twenty-First Century" | 111 |
| "Black Africa's Open Societies" | 117 |
2 | The Role of Citizens: Rights and Responsibilities | |
| Introduction | 120 |
| Discussion Questions | 121 |
| Readings | |
| from Democracy on Trial | 122 |
| from "The Infrastructure of Democracy: From Civil Society to Civic Community" | 126 |
| from "Welfare Rights at Home and Abroad: A Learning Process" | 129 |
3 | The Free Flow of Ideas: An Independent Press and the Public Sphere | |
| Introduction | 132 |
| Discussion Questions | 133 |
| Readings | |
| from "Opinion--the New Authority" | 133 |
| from "Breaking Censorship--Making Peace" | 134 |
4 | The Democratic Rule of Law | |
| Introduction | 137 |
| Discussion Questions | 138 |
| Readings | |
| from "The Literary Impact of the American and French Revolutions" | 139 |
| from The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism | 143 |
| from The Morality of Consent | 144 |
5 | Understanding a Civil Society | |
| Introduction | 146 |
| Discussion Questions | 148 |
| Readings | |
| from "On Civic Society" | 148 |
| from Jihad vs. McWorld | 151 |
| from "In Pursuit of Global Civic Virtues" | 157 |
| Challenges | |
6 | Resolving Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Conflicts | |
| Introduction | 160 |
| Discussion Questions | 162 |
| Readings | |
| from "Ethnic Conflict and War" | 163 |
| from India: From Midnight to the Millennium | 165 |
| from On Toleration | 169 |
7 | Shaping the Political Structures for Democracy | |
| Introduction | 171 |
| Discussion Questions | 172 |
| Readings | |
| from "The Rise of Illiberal Democracy" | 173 |
| from "Beyond the Liberal Paradigm" | 179 |
8 | Democracy and the Free Market | |
| Introduction | 183 |
| Discussion Questions | 184 |
| Readings | |
| from "The Crash of Western Civilization: The Limits of the Market and Democracy" | 185 |
| from Habits of the Heart | 190 |
9 | Adapting to the Culture of Democracy | |
| Introduction | 191 |
| Discussion Questions | 192 |
| Readings | |
| from "Gray is Beautiful: Thoughts on Democracy in Central Europe" | 193 |
| from "The State of the Republic" | 197 |
| from "Is Culture Destiny? The Myth of Asia's Anti-Democratic Values" | 199 |
| Promise | |
10 | Rapid Growth of the Civil Sector | |
| Introduction | 203 |
| Discussion Questions | 204 |
| Readings | |
| from "Power Shift" | 205 |
| from "Capitalism Without Work" | 210 |
11 | A New Vision for Education | |
| Introduction | 215 |
| Discussion Questions | 217 |
| Readings | |
| from "Tossed into a New Frame: Learning before Teaching" | 217 |
| from "Textbook Citizens: Education for Democracy and Political Culture in El Salvador" | 220 |
12 | The Moral Factor in the Democratic Equation | |
| Introduction | 223 |
| Discussion Questions | 225 |
| Readings | |
| "The Challenge Facing South Africa" | 225 |
| from Freedon's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution | 229 |
| from "Beyond the Marshall Plan: Wanted: Somebody to Take Responsibility for the Civil before the War" | 234 |
| from the keynote speech at the conference "Reconciliation and Community: The Future of Peace in Northern Ireland" | 237 |
| Globalization: Its Dimensions and Dynamic | |
| Introduction | 240 |
13 | The Globalization of the Market Is Not Enough | |
| Discussion Questions | 241 |
| Readings | |
| On Globalization | 241 |
| On the Compatibility of Political and Economic Rights | 243 |
| from "Why Do They Hate Us?: The Politics of Rage" | 244 |
| "Strategies for Emerging Democracies" | 248 |
14 | Creating the Political Context for Civic Globalism | |
| Discussion Questions | 250 |
| Readings | |
| from "An Emerging Global Civil Society" | 251 |
| "On Global Democratization" | 254 |
| "Toward a Global Open Society" | 257 |
| "Today's News Quiz" | 259 |
| Islam and Democracy: The Hopeful Sign of Indonesia | 261 |
15 | Signs of an Emerging Global Consciousness | |
| Discussion Questions | 264 |
| Readings | |
| "Globalization Recognizes a Common Humanity" | 265 |
| Faith-Based Initiatives | 268 |
| On Globalization and Human Rights | 271 |
| On Interdependence | 272 |
| from "the 2001 Nobel Lecture" | 275 |
| Documents | |
| Declaration of Independence | 281 |
| The Preamble to the United States Constitution, and Bill of Rights | 282 |
| Gettysburg Address | 284 |
| The Universial Declaration of Human Rights | 285 |
| Charter 77 Declaration | 286 |
| Preamble to the Constitution of Mongolia | 288 |
| The Ten Commitments: Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action, World Summit for Social Development, 1995 | 288 |
| Constitution of the Republic of South Africa--Founding Provisions | 290 |
| The La Pietra Recommendations | 291 |
| A Joint Civil Society Statement on the Tragedy in the United States | 292 |
| Bibliography | 295 |
| Web Sites | 302 |