Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev is chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

George Kennan, loser

The American foreign policy sage was driven as much by pessimism about the US as antipathy to the Soviet Union.

By Ivan Krastev and Leonard Benardo

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European unity, strong in the first weeks of Russia’s war in Ukraine, will need reinforcement if it’s to be…

By Mark Leonard and Ivan Krastev

Europeans no longer view war as unthinkable or themselves as spectators in a possible conflict.

By Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard

The new anti-globalist moment could weaken populist political actors who, even when they have a point, do not have…

By Ivan Krastev

Yet none of the crises that fractured the EU in 2016 have been resolved – can its resilience remain?

By Ivan Krastev