Short Biography
Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM). 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, European Investment Bank Global Advisory Council and the Board of Directors of GLOBSEC. He is a Financial Times contributing editor and the author of Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2020); The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2019), co-authored with Stephen Holmes, which won the 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize; After Europe (UPenn Press, 2017); Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest (UPenn Press, 2014), and In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders? (TED Books, 2013).
Areas of Expertise
- Political Science
- Future of Democracy
- Protest Movements
- Russian Politics
Selected Publications:
Is It Tomorrow Yet? Paradoxes of the Pandemic (Penguin, 2020)
The Light that Failed. A Reckoning (Penguin, 2019), co-authored with Stephen Holmes
After Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don’t Trust Our Leaders? (TED Conferences Press, 2013)
The Anti-American Century (Central European University Press, 2007), co-edited with Alan McPherson
Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption (Central European University Press, 2004)
Furthermore, he has published widely in international journals and papers.
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Research at IWM
The World in Pieces
How the triumph of identity politics over ideological politics on a global level will change the nature of international relations and of political regimes is at the heart of this program’s interest.
