Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev became contributor of the International New York Times in the spring of 2015. He is the president of the Soviet Free Strategy Center in Bulgaria and is a permanent researcher at the Vienna Institute of Humanities. He is a highly appreciated expert in the Balkans and European circumstances and is also a director of the European Foreign Relations Council and the Erste Foundation and the Open Society Foundation, the European Policy Analysis Center and the European Advisory Committee. Cultural Foundation His latest work is "Political democracy collapsed: politics of world protest action". More

Ivan Krastev is a political scientist and chairman of the Soviet Free Strategy Center in Bulgaria. Since 2004, he has served as secretary general of the Balkan International Committee chaired by former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amart. He is the director of the Open Century Project of Central Europe University in Budapest. Jacek Kucharczyk, programming director at the Warsaw Public Relations Institute in Poland, received his doctorate. In 1999, he wrote articles on sociology. He has written numerous articles and reports on the integration of Poland's land into the European Union and also frequently reports on current domestic and European exhibitions and international press organizations in Poland.

Among recent articles "imitation and dissatisfaction", Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes noted that Central and Eastern European liberalism, embodied by Polish and Hungarian populists, is "insufficient, inferior, dependent, lost , And is voluntary. " The reason for trying to imitate the Western norm: It is not an implicit assumption that imitating such a cumbersome reason is somewhat lower in moral and human form than imitations. It also assumes that central and Eastern European counterparts will accept Western assessment of success or failure of meeting Western European standards. In this sense, imitation seems to lose sovereignty.

CSIS interacted with Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Sofia Free Strategy Center, and frequently wrote to the political writers of the International New York Times to discuss his new book "After Europe". Krstov reflects the future of the European Union. This is a promise of 28 countries with the rise of the Kuomintang and the populist political party, the withdrawal from the EU, the long-term impact of the continuous immigration crisis, the rise of non-liberalism, and the meaning of Russia's security amendment.