Ivan Krastev

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Ivan Krastev (2014)

Ivan Jotov Krăstev , Bulgarian Иван Йотов Кръстев (born 1965 in Lukowit ) is a Bulgarian political scientist and political advisor , he is also a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna .

Life

After the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the changes of government or revolutions in his member countries, Ivan Krastev worked at the Central European University in Budapest, among others . Krastev is head of the 'Center for Liberal Strategies' in Sofia and a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, where he heads the focus on The Future of Democracy . He publishes for its magazine Transit. European revue . In Vienna he is also a member of the ERSTE Foundation's Board of Trustees .

Krastev was one of the founders of the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank and also worked at the think tanks Center for European Policy Analysis and Friends of Europe .

From 2004 to 2006 Krastev was a member of the International Balkans Commission headed by Giuliano Amato . From 2005 to 2011 he was a member of the advisory board of the International Institute for Strategic Studies . In 2013, 2014 and 2016 he was a fellow at the Robert Bosch Foundation in Berlin.

Since 2015 he has been writing regularly for the international edition of the New York Times .

In March 2020 it was announced that Krastev had been awarded the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing 2020.

After Europe

In his political and contemporary historical masterpiece after Europe (2017) Krastev writes: "The refugee crisis proved to be the 9.11 in Europe." The opening of borders especially for Arab ( "The refugee crisis turned out to be Europe's 9/11.") and African refugees by the German federal government in 2015 led to a new east-west divide, which, parallel to the north-south divide, threatens to politically tear the European continent apart. He assigns the responsibility for this to an elite that has disconnected itself from the wishes and attitudes of the majority society - especially when it comes to migration issues. For various reasons, politics, business and civil society are no longer able or willing to admit that uncontrolled immigration leads to economic and cultural conflicts. The Germans attests Krastev by an application made before the eyes of the entire world to see the need to cosmopolitanism to want to break away from the shackles of its own past, the desire of most East Europeans for national whereas sovereignty and cultural homogeneity a defensive response to the Soviet Union operated Represent the politics of internationalism. Only a Europe of Nations, no centralized European empire, has the possibility of survival.

Fonts (selection)

  • Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption . CEU Press, Budapest 2004.
  • With Alan McPherson (ed.): The Anti-American Century . CEU Press, Budapest 2007.
  • Europe's Democracy Paradox . In: The American Interest, March / April 2012.
  • In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders? TED books, 2013.
  • Democracy Disrupted . Penn University Press, 2014.
  • After Europe . Penn University Press, 2017.
  • With Stephen Holmes : The light that failed. A reckoning. Penguin Books, London 2019, ISBN 978-0-241-34570-2 .
  • Is today already tomorrow? How the pandemic is changing Europe . Translated from English by Karin Schuler. Ullstein, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-550-20126-4 .

Web links

Commons : Ivan Krastev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Партида на юридическо лице. Retrieved December 4, 2019 (Bulgarian).
  2. ^ Center for Liberal Strategies , website
  3. ↑ nytimes.com
  4. ↑ The Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing goes to Ivan Krastev in 2020 , buchreport.de of March 10, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020
  5. ↑ Ivan Krastev, After Europe. Penn University Press, 2017. - See Anne Applebaum's review of the book, 'A New European Narrative?' In: The New York Review of Books , October 12, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Krastev, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krastev, Ivan Jotov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian political scientist and political advisor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Lukowite