Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev is the chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is the author of Is It Tomorrow, Yet? The Paradoxes of the Pandemic.

Articles by Ivan Krastev

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is welcomed by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni upon her arrival at Chigi Palace in Rome on January 9, 2023.

Russia’s War Has Unified Europe’s Opposing Sides

Argument

Ivan Krastev, Mark Leonard

March 16, 2023, 6:49 AM

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 26, 2019.

Europeans Want to Stay Out of the New Cold War

Analysis

Ivan Krastev, Mark Leonard

September 22, 2021, 4:49 AM

President Donald Trump sits in the presidential limo as he departs the White House for Capitol Hill, where he will deliver his second State of the Union speech, on Feb. 5, 2019 in Washington.

The Real Meaning of Trump’s Post-Election Defiance

Argument

Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes

November 19, 2020, 6:30 AM

Anne Applebaum in Udine, Italy, on Jan. 26, 2019.

The Tragic Romance of the Nostalgic Western Liberal

Review

August 15, 2020, 3:25 PM

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stepping out of a 212 A submarine of the German Marine in Rostock Warnemuende, northeastern Germany. (JENS BUETTNER/AFP/Getty Images)

3 Versions of Europe Are Collapsing at the Same Time

Argument

July 10, 2018, 1:00 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at Belfast International airport in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013, to attend the G8 summit at the Lough Erne resort. US President Barack Obama was to meet Putin for potentially vexatious talks, as both leaders now offer open military backing to rival sides in Syria's civil war. AFP PHOTO/ PETER MUHLY

The Kremlin Is Starting to Worry About Trump

Argument

Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes

February 13, 2017, 9:51 AM

Cars pass by a billboard showing US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin placed by pro-Serbian movement in the town of Danilovgrad on November 16, 2016.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump spoke on the phone on November 15, evening and agreed on the need to normalise ties between Washington and Moscow, the Kremlin said. / AFP / Savo PRELEVIC (Photo credit should read SAVO PRELEVIC/AFP/Getty Images) — Cars pass by a billboard showing US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin placed by pro-Serbian movement in the town of Danilovgrad on November 16, 2016. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump spoke on the phone on November 15, evening and agreed on the need to normalise ties between Washington and Moscow, the Kremlin said. / AFP / Savo PRELEVIC (Photo credit should read SAVO PRELEVIC/AFP/Getty Images)

Get Ready for the Most Violent Détente Ever

Argument

Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes

November 21, 2016, 3:44 PM

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of conservative PiS (Law and Justice) party arrives to cast his ballot for the European Parliament elections on May 25, 2014 at a polling station in Warsaw. AFP PHOTO / WOJTEK RADWANSKI (Photo credit should read WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

The Plane Crash Conspiracy Theory That Explains Poland

Argument

December 21, 2015, 2:45 PM

What Russia Wants

Feature

October 7, 2009, 5:50 PM

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Russia’s crisis management

The Argument

April 9, 2009, 7:26 PM

Russia’s Crisis Management

Argument

April 9, 2009, 12:00 AM

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