Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev is Visiting Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Programmes at The Graduate Institute and Geneva Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna. He is also Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia. He is author of After Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

The European Union and the Balkans: enlargement or empire?

A crisis is approaching in the Balkans that is both dangerous and timely. What makes it dangerous is the fact that the European public is totally unaware of it. What

By Ivan Krastev

/ 7 Jun 2005

Ukraine and Europe: a fatal attraction

The orange revolution in Ukraine is not the last of Europes post-1989 velvet revolutions but the first of the European Union-inspired revolutions of the 21st century, says Ivan Krastev.

By Ivan Krastev

/ 16 Dec 2004

We are all Brits today: Timothy Garton Ash's 'Free World'

The world of a London bookstore can seem to the visitor as mysterious and rivalrous as the world of global politics. The shelves seem torn between passion and fashion, between

By Ivan Krastev

/ 6 Sep 2004