Events / Ivan Krastev

	Title	Date	Type Sort ascending	Speakers
	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
	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
	Manufactured Alienation	Mon, 24.02.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Adam Ramsay Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda	Manufactured Alienation Mon, 24.02.2020 Speakers: Adam Ramsay Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia Boris Johnson turned the recent UK election into a referendum on the character of politics, and won by making democracy miserable. Based on years of investigating the dark money funded institutions which drove Brexit in the UK, undercover reporting across Europe, and street interviews with voters from Hungary to Spain and Scotland to Italy, openDemocracy’s Adam Ramsay detailed how elite networks of the super-rich and ultra-conservatives are sewing discontent with (neo)liberal democracy, and argued that progressives must embrace radical democracy. Read more
Manufactured Alienation Mon, 24.02.2020 Speakers: Adam Ramsay Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia Boris Johnson turned the recent UK election into a referendum on the character of politics, and won by making democracy miserable. Based on years of investigating the dark money funded institutions which drove Brexit in the UK, undercover reporting across Europe, and street interviews with voters from Hungary to Spain and Scotland to Italy, openDemocracy’s Adam Ramsay detailed how elite networks of the super-rich and ultra-conservatives are sewing discontent with (neo)liberal democracy, and argued that progressives must embrace radical democracy. 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 Krastev Kirill Rogov	A Black Box in Dark Times: Russian Public Opinion in the Midst of Despotism and War Mon, 19.09.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Kirill 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 Krastev Kirill 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 Anthropologists’ Problem with Barter	Mon, 13.01.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Georgy Ganev Ivan Krastev	The Anthropologists’ Problem with Barter Mon, 13.01.2020 Speakers: Georgy Ganev Ivan Krastev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The standard story of economists about the origins of money is that it came from barter. For most modern anthropologists this story is about as reasonable as the story that babies are brought by the storks. It has become such a big problem that many prominent anthropologists have recently turned against economics as a discipline in general. However, as so often in social science discourse, the anthropologists’ problem with barter has at least two sides. On the one hand, the extremely well-founded and empirically well-defended position that real life is so much more complex and nuanced than the formal lifeless economic models of the neoclassical synthesis makes the story of economists utterly untenable from both an empirical and historical perspective. On the other hand, defending this position has led almost all anthropologists to the opposite extreme, claiming that barter cannot possibly have been the origin of money, but that it has never existed in history. Thus, barter creates a problem for the apparently dominant anthropological discourse about money, because despite their claims to the contrary, it appears again and again both in historical records and in modern ethnographic descriptions of various societies. Read more
The Anthropologists’ Problem with Barter Mon, 13.01.2020 Speakers: Georgy Ganev Ivan Krastev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The standard story of economists about the origins of money is that it came from barter. For most modern anthropologists this story is about as reasonable as the story that babies are brought by the storks. It has become such a big problem that many prominent anthropologists have recently turned against economics as a discipline in general. However, as so often in social science discourse, the anthropologists’ problem with barter has at least two sides. On the one hand, the extremely well-founded and empirically well-defended position that real life is so much more complex and nuanced than the formal lifeless economic models of the neoclassical synthesis makes the story of economists utterly untenable from both an empirical and historical perspective. On the other hand, defending this position has led almost all anthropologists to the opposite extreme, claiming that barter cannot possibly have been the origin of money, but that it has never existed in history. Thus, barter creates a problem for the apparently dominant anthropological discourse about money, because despite their claims to the contrary, it appears again and again both in historical records and in modern ethnographic descriptions of various societies. Read more
	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
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
	Europe and Russia After the Liberal World Order	Mon, 31.05.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Ivan Krastev Timofei Bordachev	Europe and Russia After the Liberal World Order Mon, 31.05.2021 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Ivan Krastev Timofei Bordachev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The relationship between Europe and Russia after the end of the Cold War emerged within the rules and practices of the Liberal World Order. This order was based on certain universal freedoms and global American leadership and ultimate power dominance. Recently it has been under stress, and now there are serious reasons to believe that it is coming to an end, under pressure from a change in the global composition of powers. Both Russia and Europe are looking for new roles within changing international politics. Read more
Europe and Russia After the Liberal World Order Mon, 31.05.2021 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Ivan Krastev Timofei Bordachev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The relationship between Europe and Russia after the end of the Cold War emerged within the rules and practices of the Liberal World Order. This order was based on certain universal freedoms and global American leadership and ultimate power dominance. Recently it has been under stress, and now there are serious reasons to believe that it is coming to an end, under pressure from a change in the global composition of powers. Both Russia and Europe are looking for new roles within changing international politics. Read more
	Who Are Russia's National Heroes?	Mon, 28.06.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman	Who Are Russia's National Heroes? Mon, 28.06.2021 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, governments and citizens in countries all over the world, from Eastern Europe to North America and Africa, have torn down historical monuments in pursuit of historical justice.  Russia experienced such paroxysms of iconoclasm three times in the 20th century, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it instead embarked on a wave of monument building across the country. What are the dynamics and causes of this monument fever? What does it tell us about nation-building in Russia thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Read more
Who Are Russia's National Heroes? Mon, 28.06.2021 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, governments and citizens in countries all over the world, from Eastern Europe to North America and Africa, have torn down historical monuments in pursuit of historical justice.  Russia experienced such paroxysms of iconoclasm three times in the 20th century, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it instead embarked on a wave of monument building across the country. What are the dynamics and causes of this monument fever? What does it tell us about nation-building in Russia thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Read more
	The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict	Thu, 18.11.2021	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Mark Leonard	The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict Thu, 18.11.2021 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Mark Leonard Series: Panels and Discussions In today’s world, many of the forces that were supposed to bring the world together have ended up driving us apart. Trade, technology, the internet and travel promised to create a global village, but they are also giving countries a reason to fight one another, the opportunity to struggle and an arsenal of new weapons, from cyber-attacks and sanctions to fake news and weaponised vaccines. Building on the argument from his new book, The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict, Mark Leonard, unveils how connectivity has fragmented our societies, politics and made people focus more on what divided them rather than what they hold in common and why this interdependence makes conflict cheaper and more likely in international relations. As the contemporary five big forces driving interdependence – the economy, infrastructure, technology, migration, and international institutions – are being turned into a weapon and change how the topography of power looks like, can we take steps to disarm connectivity and avoid catastrophe? Read more
The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict Thu, 18.11.2021 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Mark Leonard Series: Panels and Discussions In today’s world, many of the forces that were supposed to bring the world together have ended up driving us apart. Trade, technology, the internet and travel promised to create a global village, but they are also giving countries a reason to fight one another, the opportunity to struggle and an arsenal of new weapons, from cyber-attacks and sanctions to fake news and weaponised vaccines. Building on the argument from his new book, The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict, Mark Leonard, unveils how connectivity has fragmented our societies, politics and made people focus more on what divided them rather than what they hold in common and why this interdependence makes conflict cheaper and more likely in international relations. As the contemporary five big forces driving interdependence – the economy, infrastructure, technology, migration, and international institutions – are being turned into a weapon and change how the topography of power looks like, can we take steps to disarm connectivity and avoid catastrophe? Read more
	Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 1	Fri, 29.09.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny	Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 1 Fri, 29.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Panels and Discussions The Annual International Editors’ Roundtable was established in 2018. This year it was held at the Josephinum and at the IWM under the leadership of Rector Misha Glenny and Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. The event brought together a small group of editors, freelance writers, and academics from the most prestigious publications worldwide with diverse political orientations, among them: FAZ, New Statesmen, Süddeutsche, NZZ, Die Presse, The Guardian, FT, Die Zeit, Gazeta Wyborcza, Telex.hu, Politico, Der Standard, NYT. Read more
Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 1 Fri, 29.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Panels and Discussions The Annual International Editors’ Roundtable was established in 2018. This year it was held at the Josephinum and at the IWM under the leadership of Rector Misha Glenny and Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. The event brought together a small group of editors, freelance writers, and academics from the most prestigious publications worldwide with diverse political orientations, among them: FAZ, New Statesmen, Süddeutsche, NZZ, Die Presse, The Guardian, FT, Die Zeit, Gazeta Wyborcza, Telex.hu, Politico, Der Standard, NYT. Read more