IVAN KRASTEV

Chairman of the Board of CLS
Bulgaria



Ivan Krastev is a political scientist and Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria. In the last decade he has been visiting fellow at St. Anthony College, Oxford; Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington; Collegium Budapest, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin; Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna and Remarque Forum, New York.

Among his latest publications in English are: De-Balkanizing the Balkans: The State of the Debate, in "The International Spectator", fall 2000; The Balkans: Democracy Without Choices, in Journal of Democracy, July 2002; Corruption, Anti-Corruption Sentiments, and the Rule of Law, in "Reshaping Globalization, Multilateral Dialogues and New Policy Initiatives", fall 2003; Nationalism after Communism, Lessons Learned, eds. Allina Pippidi and Ivan Krastev, CEU Press, 2004. His paper "The Anti-American century?" appeared in the April 2004 issue of Journal of Democracy. His book "Shifting Obsessions. Three Essays on Politics of Anti-corruption." is forthcoming in the CEU Press in 2004.

From October 2003 he is the research director of the project "Politics of Anti-Americanism in the Beginning of the 21st Century" coordinated by the Central European University, Budapest. Since January 2004 Mr. Krastev is the executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans.