Introduction: Militant democracy and its critics, Anthoula Malkopoulou; 1. Individual militant democracy, Jan Werner Müller; 2. Democratic equality and militant democracy, Peter Stone; 3. Militant democracy defended, Alexander Kirshner; 4. Militant democracy versus populism, Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser; 5. Three models of democratic self-defence, Anthoula Malkopoulou and Ludvig Norman; 6. Resolving the paradox of tolerance, Stefan Rummens; 7. Militant democracy and the study of political tolerance, Giovanni Capoccia; 8. The EU defending liberal democracy in a liberal democratic way, Tore Vincents Olsen; 9. Militant democracy and the detection problem, Bastiaan Rijpkema; 10. Militant constitutionalism, András Sajó; 11. Militant democracy as an inherent quality of a democratic state, Svetlana Tyulkina; References.