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Ivan Krastev (Bulgarian:Иван Кръстев, born 1965 inLukovit, Bulgaria), is apolitical scientist, the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies inSofia, permanent fellow at theIWM (Institute of Human Sciences) inVienna,[1] and 2013-4-17Richard von Weizsäcker fellow at theRobert Bosch Stiftung inBerlin.
He is a founding board member of theEuropean Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the board of trustees of the International Crisis Group and is a contributingopinion writer forThe New York Times.
From 2004 to 2006 Krastev was executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans chaired by the formerItalian Prime MinisterGiuliano Amato. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Edition ofForeign Policy 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,[2] which forms part of an association of schools of political studies, under the auspices of the Directorate General of Democracy (“DGII”) of theCouncil of Europe.[3]
His books in English includeShifting 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) andAfter Europe (UPenn Press, 2017). He is a co-author withStephen Holmes of the bookThe Light that Failed on East European politics.[4]
