The European inter-civilizational constellation

3-25

The greco-roman and judaic legacies

27-49

Christianity in the making of Europe

51-71

Between East and West

the byzantine legacy and Russia

Jurij Borodaj, Aleksandr Nikiforov

73-89

The Islamic world and Islam in Europe

91-106

The Renaissance and the rise of European consciousness

109-131

Unity and divisions in early modern European history

the emergence of a Westernized Europe

133-155

The enlightenment and the idea of Europe

157-181

The rise of the nation-state and the allure of empire

between nationalism and cosmopolitanism

183-213

Europe as a world historical region

a global perspective on the European formation of modernity

215-239

The historical regions of Europe

civilizational backgrounds and multiple routes to modernity

241-263

Europe in the short twentieth century

conflicting projects of modernity

265-301

Europe since 1989

globalization, Europeanization and the crisis of the nation-state in late modernity

305-339

Age of Austerity

contradictions of capitalism and democracy and the crisis of European integration

341-363

"The centre cannot hold"

the return of nationalism and the spectre of authoritarian democracy

365-397

Memory, heritage and history

The European heritage as a conflict of interpretations

399-420