Ivan Krastev: podcast appearances and interviews

Ivan Krastev, born in 1965 in Lukovit, Bulgaria, is a political scientist and the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia. He serves as a permanent fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna and was a Richard von Weizsäcker fellow at the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin in 2013 and 2014. Krastev is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the board of trustees of the International Crisis Group. He contributes opinion pieces to The New York Times and has held various other notable roles in international think tanks and organizations. Between 2004 and 2006, Krastev was the executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans, which was chaired by former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato. He has also been the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian edition of Foreign Policy and was a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London from 2005 to 2011. Since 2016, Krastev has served as a director and trustee of the School of Civic Education in London, an organization linked to the Council of Europe's network of political studies schools. His published works include books on topics such as anti-corruption, global protests, democracy, and European politics, including titles like Shifting Obsessions, The Anti-American Century, In Mistrust We Trust, Democracy Disrupted, and After Europe. He is also a co-author of the book The Light that Failed, which discusses East European politics.