much needed compendium of everything you may wish to know to understand (and, hopefully, to arrest) the forces behind the current falling apart of the social democratic project. The editors have managed to secure cooperation of the most acute and insightful analysts of a paramount and most seminal, while portentous, phenomenon of our times.' Zygmunt Bauman Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds FREE EBOOK DOWNLOAD With this book, Erhard Eppler has provided an important contribution to current political debates. The book is not about the wish for an almighty state. He would be the last one to articulate and I would be the last one to condone such a wish. Moreover, the challenge is to revive the primacy of politics in times of globalization.