Ivan Krastev

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Ivan Krastev (Bulgarian: Иван Кръстев, born 1965 in Lukovit, Bulgaria), is a political scientist, the chairman of the in Sofia, permanent fellow at the IWM (Institute of Human Sciences) in Vienna,[1] and 2013-14-17 Richard von Weizsäcker 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 and is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.

From 2004 to 2006 Krastev was executive director of the chaired by the former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Edition of Foreign Policy and was a member of the , London (2005-2011). Since 2016, he serves as a director/trustee of the School of Civic Education in London [1], 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[2]

His books in English include "After Europe" (UPenn Press, 2017), "Democracy Disrupted. The Politics of Global Protest" (UPenn Press, May 2014), "In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders", (TED Books, 2013); "The Anti-American Century", co-edited with Alan McPherson, (CEU Press, 2007) and "Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption" (CEU Press, 2004). He is a co-author with Stephen Holmes of a book "The Light that Failed" on East European politics.[2]

Bibliography[]

  • Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic, 2020, Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0241483459, (96 pages)
  • The Light that Failed: A Reckoning, co-authored with Stephen Holmes, Penguin, 2019
  • After Europe, Penn University Press, 2017
  • Democracy Disrupted, Penn University Press, 2014
  • In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?, TED books, 3 January 2013[3]
  • Europe's Democracy Paradox, The American Interest, March/April 2012.
  • The Anti-American Century, Alan McPherson and Ivan Krastev (eds.), CEU Press, 2007.
  • Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption, CEU Press, 2004.

References[]

  1. ^ "Ivan Krastev". IWM Homepage.
  2. ^ Garnett, Simon (28 October 2019). "The future was next to you". Eurozine.
  3. ^ "TED Books library". www.ted.com.

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