Ivan Krastev
is director of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia. He is editor of The Anti-American Century (with Alan McPherson), Budapest 2007.
Eurozine Articles
The populist moment
Unlike the extremist parties of the 1930s, the new populist movements do not aim to abolish democracy: quite the opposite, writes Ivan Krastev. What we are witnessing is a conflict between elites suspicious of democracy and increasingly illiberal publics. [Slovak version added] [more]
The crisis of the post-Cold War European order
Ivan Krastev argues that a policy of engagement focused on national interest and a radical turn from value-based foreign policy to nineteenth century Realpolitik is not a workable option for relations between Russia and the West. [English version added] [more]





