George Kennan, loser
The American foreign policy sage was driven as much by pessimism about the US as antipathy to the Soviet Union.
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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).
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