Ivan Krastev is chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria. He served as the executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans, chaired by Giuliano Amato.

Recent articles

Russia's flawed understanding of 21st-century international politics means that its military success in the war with Georgia could be followed by its strategic defeat, says Ivan Krastev.

(This article was first published on 19 August 2008)

The real target of a severe European commission report on the failures of governance in Bulgaria contains a deeper message about the European Union's political future - and the mistakes of its past. Ivan Krastev, in Sofia, decodes it.

(This article was first published on 23 July 2008) 

The old continent could once offer itself as the model for a new world. No longer: the European Union's universalism is crashing against rising global states (China, India) and forces (religion, nationalism). The response to Ireland's referendum is a foretaste of serious political crisis to come, says Ivan Krastev.

(This article was first published on 20 June 2008)

A global public-opinion survey reveals increasing support for a redistribution of international power, report Ivan Krastev & Mark Leonard.

The rise of populism and retreat of liberalism in Poland are rooted in the character of the region’s post-communist transition. It is Europe’s problem too, says Ivan Krastev.