Ivan Krastev (, born 1965 in
Lukovit
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, the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in
Sofia
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, permanent fellow at the
IWM (Institute of Human Sciences) in
Vienna
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, and 2013-4-17
Richard von Weizsäcker
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fellow at the
Robert Bosch Stiftung
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in
Berlin
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.
He is a founding board member of the
European Council on Foreign Relations
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, a member of the board of trustees of the International Crisis Group and is a contributing
opinion writer
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for ''
The New York Times
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''.
From 2004 to 2006 Krastev was executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans chaired by the former
Italian Prime Minister
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Giuliano Amato
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. 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 in London from 2005 to 2011). Since 2016, he serves as a director and trustee of the School of Civic Education in London, 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
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.
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