Ivan Krastev ( bg, Иван Кръстев, born 1965 in
Lukovit
Lukovit ( bg, Луковит ) is a town in northern Bulgaria, part of Lovech Province. It is situated on both banks of the Zlatna Panega between the Danubian Plain and the foot of Stara Planina. As of December 2009, the town has a population ...
, Bulgaria), is a
political scientist, the chairman of the
Centre for Liberal Strategies in
Sofia, permanent fellow at the
IWM (Institute of Human Sciences) in
Vienna, and 2013-4-17
Richard von Weizsäcker
Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker (; 15 April 1920 – 31 January 2015) was a German politician ( CDU), who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, who were part of the German nobilit ...
fellow at the
Robert Bosch Stiftung in
Berlin.
He is a founding board member of the
European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the board of trustees of the
International Crisis Group
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and is a contributing
opinion writer for ''
The New York Times''.
From 2004 to 2006 Krastev was executive director of the
International Commission on the Balkans chaired by the former
Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato
Giuliano Amato (; born 13 May 1938) is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001.
Later, he was Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted t ...
. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Edition of ''
Foreign Policy
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'' and was a member of the
Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies
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, London (2005-2011). Since 2016, he serves as a director/trustee of the School of Civic Education in Londo
which forms part of an association of schools of political studies, under the auspices of the Directorate General of Democracy (“DGII”) of the
Council of Europe
His books in English include ''Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption'' (CEU Press, 2004), ''The Anti-American Century'', co-edited with Alan McPherson, (CEU Press, 2007), ''In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders'', (TED Books, 2013), ''Democracy Disrupted. The Politics of Global Protest'' (UPenn Press, May 2014) and ''After Europe'' (UPenn Press, 2017). He is a co-author with
Stephen Holmes of the book ''The Light that Failed'' on East European politics.
Bibliography
* ''Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption'', CEU Press, 2004.
* ''The Anti-American Century'', Alan McPherson and Ivan Krastev (eds.), CEU Press, 2007.
* Europe's Democracy Paradox, ''The American Interest'', March/April 2012.
* ''In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?'', TED books, 3 January 2013
* ''After Europe'', Penn University Press, 2017
* ''The Light that Failed: A Reckoning'', co-authored with
Stephen Holmes,
Penguin
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, 2019
* ''Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic'', 2020, Allen Lane, , (96 pages)
References
External links
Ivan Krastev TED talk*
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1965 births
Living people
People from Lukovit
Bulgarian political scientists
Foreign policy writers
Populism scholars