Ivan Krastev
Ivan Krastev is a political scientist and the chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia. He is also a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Mr. Krastev is a trustee of the European Council on Foreign Relations; council member of the International Institute for Security Studies IISS – London; member of the advisory board of the Open Society Institute in Budapest and New York; and member of the European regional advisory group of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He was previously the executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans, initiated by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the King Baudouin Foundation, and chaired by former Italian Premier Minister Giuliano Amato.
Publications
Democracy as Self-CorrectionDecember 10, 2012This policy paper outlines the current state of the concept of democracy around the world.
The Crisis of the Post-Cold War European Order: What to Do About Russia’s Newfound Taste for Confrontation With the WestMarch 01, 2008The author of this paper argues that Russia’s newfound taste for confrontation with the West is not an emotional overreaction or theatrical grandstanding – it is a strategic choice. The Kremlin’s new foreign policy is not circumstantial in nature. It is the expression of a new foreign policy consensus within the Russian elite and the Russian society at large. The author analyzes what the West can do to allow the coexistence of a post-modern European Union and a post-imperial Russia.
The Riga PapersNovember 20, 2006
In preparation for the Riga Conference, entitled "Transforming NATO in a New Global Era," GMF has commissioned five papers from leading thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic on the future challenges facing NATO. These original policy papers frame the critical issues both on and off the Summit agenda. 
