Thomas Meyer is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany and Editor-in-Chief of the monthly political magazine, Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte Journal of Social Democracy.José Luís de Sales Marques is President of the Board of Directors of the Institute of European Studies of Macau.

• Introduction [Thomas Meyer] Part I: Good governance 1. Multiple modernities and good governance [Thomas Meyer] 2. Good governance in a world of multiple modernities: Whose modernity? [Rodney Bruce Hall] Part II: Development 3. Alternative modernities on the road to nowhere [Jack Snyder] 4. Variegated capitalism and varieties of modernity [Tak-Wing Ngo] Part III: Human security 5. Multiple modernities in a multiplex world [Amitav Acharya] 6. Enhanced human security: A modernitiy available to all [Inge Kaul] Part IV: Dialogue 7. The past and present of Europe’s intercultural dialogue: Beyond a "normative power" approach toward two-way cooperation [Mario Telò] 8. The role of the United Nations’ Alliance of Civilizations in building culturally inclusive societies in the 21st century [Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser] 9. Harmony and human dignity: A Confucian perspective [Julia Tao] Part V: Globalization 10. The new modernity: Networked globalization [Manuel Castells] 11. Globalization, migration, and the role of the state [Julian Nida-Rümelin] 12. Plural modernity and negotiated universals [Jürgen Kocka] Conclusion [Thomas Meyer and José Luís de Sales Marques]