Events / Ivan Krastev

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Prelude to Ukraine: Russia's Intervention in the Syrian Civil War	Mon, 17.04.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Itamar Rabinovich Ivan Krastev	Prelude to Ukraine: Russia's Intervention in the Syrian Civil War Mon, 17.04.2023 Speakers: Itamar Rabinovich Ivan Krastev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The talk outlined Russia's intervention, in league with Iran, in the Syrian civil war and its role in enabling Bashar al Assad to remain in power in a truncated Syria. Read more

	Geopolitical Talks: The Role of Sanctions in US Foreign Policy	Thu, 16.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Misha GlennyJames O'Brien	Geopolitical Talks: The Role of Sanctions in US Foreign Policy Thu, 16.02.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha GlennyJames O'Brien Series: Panels and Discussions In this Geopolitical Talk, Ambassador James O’Brien, Head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination at the U.S. Department of State, discussed the role of sanctions in US foreign policy with IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. Read more
Geopolitical Talks: The Role of Sanctions in US Foreign Policy Thu, 16.02.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha GlennyJames O'Brien Series: Panels and Discussions In this Geopolitical Talk, Ambassador James O’Brien, Head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination at the U.S. Department of State, discussed the role of sanctions in US foreign policy with IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. Read more
	Tackling Disinformation in Central Europe and the Western Balkans	Tue, 25.10.2022	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Misha GlennyRastislav Káčer, Michal Klíma, Adelheid Wölfl, Jasna Jelisić, Vuk Vuksanović, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Shilten Palathunkal, Katarína Klingová, Stefan Vospernik	Tackling Disinformation in Central Europe and the Western Balkans Tue, 25.10.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Misha GlennyRastislav Káčer, Michal Klíma, Adelheid Wölfl, Jasna Jelisić, Vuk Vuksanović, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Shilten Palathunkal, Katarína Klingová, Stefan Vospernik Series: Panels and Discussions This conference brought to the fore the role of online influences – in particular the covert, malign influences – in shaping political processes in respective regions. Read more
Tackling Disinformation in Central Europe and the Western Balkans Tue, 25.10.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Misha GlennyRastislav Káčer, Michal Klíma, Adelheid Wölfl, Jasna Jelisić, Vuk Vuksanović, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Shilten Palathunkal, Katarína Klingová, Stefan Vospernik Series: Panels and Discussions This conference brought to the fore the role of online influences – in particular the covert, malign influences – in shaping political processes in respective regions. Read more
	Semester Opening	Mon, 19.09.2022	Social and Networking Events	Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny	Semester Opening Mon, 19.09.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Social and Networking Events On the occasion of the Semester Opening at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Rector Misha Glenny cordially invited the Fellows who are already in house, and especially those who have arrived in the course of September, the Permanent Fellows, and the Staff to participate in an evening conversation about the current state of politics and society in the IWM Library. Read more
Semester Opening Mon, 19.09.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Social and Networking Events On the occasion of the Semester Opening at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Rector Misha Glenny cordially invited the Fellows who are already in house, and especially those who have arrived in the course of September, the Permanent Fellows, and the Staff to participate in an evening conversation about the current state of politics and society in the IWM Library. Read more
	A Black Box in Dark Times: Russian Public Opinion in the Midst of Despotism and War	Mon, 19.09.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan KrastevKirill Rogov	A Black Box in Dark Times: Russian Public Opinion in the Midst of Despotism and War Mon, 19.09.2022 Speakers: Ivan KrastevKirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia While not doing too well on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is taking advantage of the weak resistance to his military venture at home. This allows him to avoid responsibility for failures and wage a protracted war of attrition in Ukraine. But what is behind the poll numbers demonstrating massive support for the war in Russia? Are they relevant, and how should we interpret them? Do they have the same meaning as polls conducted in conditions of political pluralism and freedom of opinion? An analysis of long-term trends in the dynamics of Putin's popularity allows Kirill Rogov to reveal some of the mechanisms of "support inflation" under the authoritarian regime and the role of wars in these dynamics. Read more
A Black Box in Dark Times: Russian Public Opinion in the Midst of Despotism and War Mon, 19.09.2022 Speakers: Ivan KrastevKirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia While not doing too well on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is taking advantage of the weak resistance to his military venture at home. This allows him to avoid responsibility for failures and wage a protracted war of attrition in Ukraine. But what is behind the poll numbers demonstrating massive support for the war in Russia? Are they relevant, and how should we interpret them? Do they have the same meaning as polls conducted in conditions of political pluralism and freedom of opinion? An analysis of long-term trends in the dynamics of Putin's popularity allows Kirill Rogov to reveal some of the mechanisms of "support inflation" under the authoritarian regime and the role of wars in these dynamics. Read more
	The Last Forty Years and the Next Forty: Eastern Europe, Europe, the World	Thu, 30.06.2022	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Timothy SnyderYuval Harari	The Last Forty Years and the Next Forty: Eastern Europe, Europe, the World Thu, 30.06.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Timothy SnyderYuval Harari Series: Panels and Discussions In this conversation, part of a series of events marking the IWM’s 40th anniversary in 2022, Timothy Snyder and Yuval Noah Harari discussed what lessons we should take from the past four decades and what will determine the course of the years to come. Read more
The Last Forty Years and the Next Forty: Eastern Europe, Europe, the World Thu, 30.06.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Timothy SnyderYuval Harari Series: Panels and Discussions In this conversation, part of a series of events marking the IWM’s 40th anniversary in 2022, Timothy Snyder and Yuval Noah Harari discussed what lessons we should take from the past four decades and what will determine the course of the years to come. Read more
	Time to Decide Europe Summit	Fri, 20.05.2022	Conferences and Workshops	Dimitar Bechev Gerald Knaus Heather Grabbe Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Ivana Dragičević Karolina Wigura Maxim Trudolyubov Misha Glenny Nathalie Tocci Nikola Dimitrov Olivia Lazard Serhii Plokhii Stefan Lehne Stephen Holmes Sławomir Sierakowski Zsuzsanna SzelényiMarina Davydova, Florence Gaub, Anna Jermolaewa, Marta Pardavi, Susanne Scholl, Želimir Žilnik	Time to Decide Europe Summit Fri, 20.05.2022 Speakers: Dimitar Bechev Gerald Knaus Heather Grabbe Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Ivana Dragičević Karolina Wigura Maxim Trudolyubov Misha Glenny Nathalie Tocci Nikola Dimitrov Olivia Lazard Serhii Plokhii Stefan Lehne Stephen Holmes Sławomir Sierakowski Zsuzsanna SzelényiMarina Davydova, Florence Gaub, Anna Jermolaewa, Marta Pardavi, Susanne Scholl, Želimir Žilnik Series: Conferences and Workshops In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Europe woke up to a grave new world. Something considered unthinkable after WWII had happened, and the European security order was blown up. Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine put an end to the “end of history” era, which had begun in 1989. This attack has triggered events in Europe that had been previously unimaginable. We want to look ahead and think about the consequences of these dramatic events for Ukraine, for Europe and the EU, and for Russia. ERSTE Foundation and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) have invited some of the brightest minds to start a debate on the difficult questions that Europe is facing today and the answers that will determine the future. Read more
Time to Decide Europe Summit Fri, 20.05.2022 Speakers: Dimitar Bechev Gerald Knaus Heather Grabbe Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Ivana Dragičević Karolina Wigura Maxim Trudolyubov Misha Glenny Nathalie Tocci Nikola Dimitrov Olivia Lazard Serhii Plokhii Stefan Lehne Stephen Holmes Sławomir Sierakowski Zsuzsanna SzelényiMarina Davydova, Florence Gaub, Anna Jermolaewa, Marta Pardavi, Susanne Scholl, Želimir Žilnik Series: Conferences and Workshops In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Europe woke up to a grave new world. Something considered unthinkable after WWII had happened, and the European security order was blown up. Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine put an end to the “end of history” era, which had begun in 1989. This attack has triggered events in Europe that had been previously unimaginable. We want to look ahead and think about the consequences of these dramatic events for Ukraine, for Europe and the EU, and for Russia. ERSTE Foundation and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) have invited some of the brightest minds to start a debate on the difficult questions that Europe is facing today and the answers that will determine the future. Read more
	Democracy and Demography	Tue, 17.05.2022	Panels and Discussions	Ivan KrastevRainer Münz	Democracy and Demography Tue, 17.05.2022 Speakers: Ivan KrastevRainer Münz Series: Panels and Discussions The interactions between demographic structures and democracy are often overlooked, but they work two ways. On the one hand, the demographic composition of societies and demographic change have implications for the way elected governments address issues, allocate fiscal resources and represent interests of their constituencies. Demographic ageing obviously has an impact. The same is true for settled as well as emerging diasporas. On the other hand, democratically elected governments backed by a parliamentary majority can influence part of their polity via citizenship and naturalization policies as well as inclusive or exclusive electoral regimes targeting specific demographically defined groups. Gerrymandering in the process of redesigning electoral districts is just one of several examples. The discussion between Rainer Münz and Ivan Krastev explored such interactions and discussed their implications for the future of democracies. Read more
Democracy and Demography Tue, 17.05.2022 Speakers: Ivan KrastevRainer Münz Series: Panels and Discussions The interactions between demographic structures and democracy are often overlooked, but they work two ways. On the one hand, the demographic composition of societies and demographic change have implications for the way elected governments address issues, allocate fiscal resources and represent interests of their constituencies. Demographic ageing obviously has an impact. The same is true for settled as well as emerging diasporas. On the other hand, democratically elected governments backed by a parliamentary majority can influence part of their polity via citizenship and naturalization policies as well as inclusive or exclusive electoral regimes targeting specific demographically defined groups. Gerrymandering in the process of redesigning electoral districts is just one of several examples. The discussion between Rainer Münz and Ivan Krastev explored such interactions and discussed their implications for the future of democracies. Read more
	The Crisis of Liberal Democracy Today. Is Meritocracy to Blame?	Mon, 31.01.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ruzha Smilova Ivan Krastev	The Crisis of Liberal Democracy Today. Is Meritocracy to Blame? Mon, 31.01.2022 Speakers: Ruzha Smilova Ivan Krastev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The crisis of liberal democracy hardly makes the news today: so often has its imminent death been announced. Yet over the last 15 years organizations responsible for monitoring freedom and democracy in the world have reported a trend of globally declining quality of democracy. Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the pace of this trend has accelerated. Different hypotheses for what went wrong have been advanced. Read more
The Crisis of Liberal Democracy Today. Is Meritocracy to Blame? Mon, 31.01.2022 Speakers: Ruzha Smilova Ivan Krastev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The crisis of liberal democracy hardly makes the news today: so often has its imminent death been announced. Yet over the last 15 years organizations responsible for monitoring freedom and democracy in the world have reported a trend of globally declining quality of democracy. Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the pace of this trend has accelerated. Different hypotheses for what went wrong have been advanced. Read more
	Shifting Sands: The Lure of “Alignments a la Carte” and the True Meaning of “America is Back”	Tue, 25.01.2022	Lecture	Soli Özel Ivan Krastev	Shifting Sands: The Lure of “Alignments a la Carte” and the True Meaning of “America is Back” Tue, 25.01.2022 Speakers: Soli Özel Ivan Krastev Series: Lecture Because the Trump administration was such a harrowing experience for most European countries, for the EU itself and many others around the world the election of Joe Biden resulted in a deep sigh of relief. In power, Biden moved fast domestically and talked the good talk towards allies in various platforms. Yet, nearly ten months into his term Biden’s policies suggest a surprising degree of continuity with his immediate predecessor. He is also finally putting more substance into President Obama’s “pivot to Asia” strategy. In an age when the United States turns its attention and most of its resources to competing with China and containing Beijing’s ambition, what is Europe to do? In light of the American nonchalance about European allies, is the “strategic autonomy” championed by President Macron of France the way out? Should Europeans really choose between China and the US as Washington clearly wants them to? Would German disdain for claiming strategic leadership and the Europeans’ own complacency turn Europe into a geopolitical void? The new era in international relations is full of surprises and fluidity. Nimble political reflexes and strategic will are of utmost importance. Will the EU deploy them where it can and must? Read more
Shifting Sands: The Lure of “Alignments a la Carte” and the True Meaning of “America is Back” Tue, 25.01.2022 Speakers: Soli Özel Ivan Krastev Series: Lecture Because the Trump administration was such a harrowing experience for most European countries, for the EU itself and many others around the world the election of Joe Biden resulted in a deep sigh of relief. In power, Biden moved fast domestically and talked the good talk towards allies in various platforms. Yet, nearly ten months into his term Biden’s policies suggest a surprising degree of continuity with his immediate predecessor. He is also finally putting more substance into President Obama’s “pivot to Asia” strategy. In an age when the United States turns its attention and most of its resources to competing with China and containing Beijing’s ambition, what is Europe to do? In light of the American nonchalance about European allies, is the “strategic autonomy” championed by President Macron of France the way out? Should Europeans really choose between China and the US as Washington clearly wants them to? Would German disdain for claiming strategic leadership and the Europeans’ own complacency turn Europe into a geopolitical void? The new era in international relations is full of surprises and fluidity. Nimble political reflexes and strategic will are of utmost importance. Will the EU deploy them where it can and must? Read more