Events / Ivan Krastev

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	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
	What the EU can learn from the Habsburg Empire	Thu, 06.06.2019	Panels and Discussions	Ivan KrastevA. Wess Mitchell		What the EU can learn from the Habsburg Empire Thu, 06.06.2019 Speakers: Ivan KrastevA. Wess Mitchell Series: Panels and Discussions In the fourth event of the Geopolitical Talks Series, IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev talked with A. Wess Mitchell, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2017-2019), about current geopolitical challenges and lessons from the past. Read more
What the EU can learn from the Habsburg Empire Thu, 06.06.2019 Speakers: Ivan KrastevA. Wess Mitchell Series: Panels and Discussions In the fourth event of the Geopolitical Talks Series, IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev talked with A. Wess Mitchell, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2017-2019), about current geopolitical challenges and lessons from the past. Read more
	What Europeans Really Want	Tue, 21.05.2019	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Piotr Buras Ulrike LunacekIngrid Steiner-Gashi		What Europeans Really Want Tue, 21.05.2019 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Piotr Buras Ulrike LunacekIngrid Steiner-Gashi Series: Panels and Discussions 70 percent of Europeans are yet to make up their minds on who they want to vote for, and nearly 100 million swing voters are up for grabs. Just days ahead of the European election, and building on a comprehensive survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations, our distinguished panel will offer insight in how Europe’s new lawmakers can give the EU a renewed license to operate. The elections themselves come in the middle of a heated debate about the future of Europe. What will it mean for the European Union if Eurosceptic parties gain control and how could the mainstream parties respond? What do the Europeans expect from the new European Parliament in the upcoming legislative term? Read more
What Europeans Really Want Tue, 21.05.2019 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Piotr Buras Ulrike LunacekIngrid Steiner-Gashi Series: Panels and Discussions 70 percent of Europeans are yet to make up their minds on who they want to vote for, and nearly 100 million swing voters are up for grabs. Just days ahead of the European election, and building on a comprehensive survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations, our distinguished panel will offer insight in how Europe’s new lawmakers can give the EU a renewed license to operate. The elections themselves come in the middle of a heated debate about the future of Europe. What will it mean for the European Union if Eurosceptic parties gain control and how could the mainstream parties respond? What do the Europeans expect from the new European Parliament in the upcoming legislative term? Read more
	Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: What’s Become of the Common Good?	Sat, 30.09.2023	Festivals	Ivan Krastev Michael J. Sandel	Get free tickets through VOLKSTHEATER	Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: What’s Become of the Common Good? Sat, 30.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Michael J. Sandel Series: Festivals As part of the Vienna Humanities Festival, in this lecture Michael Sandel talked about the prospects for a fairer society. He asked if such a thing as the common good still exists, as well as whether and how we should value and reward citizens’ contributions to the economy. His reflections took us to the very heart of what human dignity means. Read more
Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: What’s Become of the Common Good? Sat, 30.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Michael J. Sandel Series: Festivals As part of the Vienna Humanities Festival, in this lecture Michael Sandel talked about the prospects for a fairer society. He asked if such a thing as the common good still exists, as well as whether and how we should value and reward citizens’ contributions to the economy. His reflections took us to the very heart of what human dignity means. Read more
	Ukraine, Maidan, and the Future of Europe	Wed, 19.02.2014	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Mykola RiabchukChristian Ultsch		Ukraine, Maidan, and the Future of Europe Wed, 19.02.2014 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Mykola RiabchukChristian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions After the failure of the Orange Revolution of 2004, Ukraine seemed to have been written off – both by its own citizens and by observers from abroad. Read more

	Time To Decide Europe Summit 2023	Tue, 16.05.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Anthony Barnett Gerald Knaus Ivan Krastev Ivana Dragičević Jan-Werner Müller Janka Oertel Kim Scheppele Soli Özel Misha GlennyAlexander Schallenberg		Time To Decide Europe Summit 2023 Tue, 16.05.2023 Speakers: Anthony Barnett Gerald Knaus Ivan Krastev Ivana Dragičević Jan-Werner Müller Janka Oertel Kim Scheppele Soli Özel Misha GlennyAlexander Schallenberg Series: Conferences and Workshops What will the coming year bring about? How will Europe’s foreign and defense policy be transformed? Will Europe’s democracies come out weakened or strengthened from the current crisis? What future for the economy and ecology in Europe? Can risks be turned into opportunities, and how? Read more
Time To Decide Europe Summit 2023 Tue, 16.05.2023 Speakers: Anthony Barnett Gerald Knaus Ivan Krastev Ivana Dragičević Jan-Werner Müller Janka Oertel Kim Scheppele Soli Özel Misha GlennyAlexander Schallenberg Series: Conferences and Workshops What will the coming year bring about? How will Europe’s foreign and defense policy be transformed? Will Europe’s democracies come out weakened or strengthened from the current crisis? What future for the economy and ecology in Europe? Can risks be turned into opportunities, and how? 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 Nathalie Tocci Nikola Dimitrov Olivia Lazard Serhii Plokhii Stefan Lehne Stephen Holmes Zsuzsanna Szelényi Misha Glenny Slawomir SierakowskiFranziska Brantner, Marina 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 Nathalie Tocci Nikola Dimitrov Olivia Lazard Serhii Plokhii Stefan Lehne Stephen Holmes Zsuzsanna Szelényi Misha Glenny Slawomir SierakowskiFranziska Brantner, Marina 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 Nathalie Tocci Nikola Dimitrov Olivia Lazard Serhii Plokhii Stefan Lehne Stephen Holmes Zsuzsanna Szelényi Misha Glenny Slawomir SierakowskiFranziska Brantner, Marina 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
	The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Future of the World	Mon, 26.06.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Timothy Snyder Misha Glenny		The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Future of the World Mon, 26.06.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Timothy Snyder Misha Glenny Series: Panels and Discussions The Russo-Ukrainian War recalls all of the half-forgotten precedents and warnings from the past. Yet, in a profound sense, it is a war for and about the future of democracy. It is also about sustainable energy, the distribution of natural resources, and the possibility of truth in an age of digital propaganda. The war raises the need for ethical judgement at a time when it might appear that the major questions are all technical. We invite you to a discussion between two thinkers who bring together an expertise in the region with a concern for the broadest possible questions of international order and justice. Read more
The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Future of the World Mon, 26.06.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Timothy Snyder Misha Glenny Series: Panels and Discussions The Russo-Ukrainian War recalls all of the half-forgotten precedents and warnings from the past. Yet, in a profound sense, it is a war for and about the future of democracy. It is also about sustainable energy, the distribution of natural resources, and the possibility of truth in an age of digital propaganda. The war raises the need for ethical judgement at a time when it might appear that the major questions are all technical. We invite you to a discussion between two thinkers who bring together an expertise in the region with a concern for the broadest possible questions of international order and justice. Read more
	The Return of Geopolitics?	Mon, 20.05.2019	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Luiza Bialasiewicz		The Return of Geopolitics? Mon, 20.05.2019 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Luiza Bialasiewicz Series: Panels and Discussions Over the past several years, it has become common to announce the ‘return of geopolitics’ in shaping the world order and relations between states. The popular media, but also the discourse of state leaders, increasingly makes use of classical geopolitical concepts in describing global events, from ‘spheres of influence’, ‘balance of power’ or ‘grand strategy’, to geographical descriptors like ‘heartlands’, ‘rimlands’ or ‘shatterbelts’. Read more
The Return of Geopolitics? Mon, 20.05.2019 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Luiza Bialasiewicz Series: Panels and Discussions Over the past several years, it has become common to announce the ‘return of geopolitics’ in shaping the world order and relations between states. The popular media, but also the discourse of state leaders, increasingly makes use of classical geopolitical concepts in describing global events, from ‘spheres of influence’, ‘balance of power’ or ‘grand strategy’, to geographical descriptors like ‘heartlands’, ‘rimlands’ or ‘shatterbelts’. Read more
	The Return of Geopolitics in Europe	Sun, 11.01.2015	Panels and Discussions	Fyodor Lukyanov Ivan KrastevCarl Bildt, Ana Palacio, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid		The Return of Geopolitics in Europe Sun, 11.01.2015 Speakers: Fyodor Lukyanov Ivan KrastevCarl Bildt, Ana Palacio, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid Series: Panels and Discussions After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the subsequent reordering of Europe, it seemed that a new era of stable and peaceful development lay ahead. In recent months, however, Europeans have experienced increasing insecurity. Peace and security can no longer be taken for granted. Borders and national entities have been called into question. Sanctions against Russia are affecting economic relationships – also in Austria. Has the Cold War returned to Europe? What geopolitical changes might we expect in the near future? How should Europe respond to these challenges? Read more
The Return of Geopolitics in Europe Sun, 11.01.2015 Speakers: Fyodor Lukyanov Ivan KrastevCarl Bildt, Ana Palacio, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid Series: Panels and Discussions After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the subsequent reordering of Europe, it seemed that a new era of stable and peaceful development lay ahead. In recent months, however, Europeans have experienced increasing insecurity. Peace and security can no longer be taken for granted. Borders and national entities have been called into question. Sanctions against Russia are affecting economic relationships – also in Austria. Has the Cold War returned to Europe? What geopolitical changes might we expect in the near future? How should Europe respond to these challenges? Read more