Ivan Krastev
Ivan Krastev is a political scientist and Chair of Board of the Centre for
Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since 2004 Mr. Krastev has been the
executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans chaired by
the former Italian Premier Minister Giuliano Amato. He is the Director of
the Open Century Project of the Central European University in Budapest.
In 2006 Ivan Krastev was awarded membership in the Forum
of Young Global Leaders, a partner organization of the World Economic Forum.
His latest book in English is:
Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption,
CEU Press, 2004.
The book The Anti-American Century edited by Alan
McPpherson and Ivan Krastev is forthcoming in 2006 by CEU Press.
Ivan Krastev is the Editor in Chief of the Bulgarian
edition of Foreign Policy. |
EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP
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1999 - 2000 |
Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Research topic: The Anti-corruption
Rhetorics and the Politics of Reforms |
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1998-99 |
OSI
Policy Fellow, Research topic: Think Tank Community in South-Eastern
Europe |
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1998 |
Woodrow Wilson Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International
Scholars, Washington DC |
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1998 |
German
Marshall Campus Fellow, Washington DC |
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1997-1998 |
Fellow
at the Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Research
topic: The Rise and Influence of Think Tanks in Central and Eastern
Europe. Comparative Perspective |
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1992-1997 |
Work
on Doctoral Thesis: Presidential Constitutional Politics in Eastern
Europe, /to be defended/. |
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1991-1992 |
Visiting Student in Political Science at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford
University /Soros Fellowship/ |
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1990 |
M.A in
Philosophy, University of Sofia M.A Thesis: “Utopia” and “The City of
Sun” in the Context of the Great Geographical Discoveries |
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1984-1989 |
Student in philosophy at the University of Sofia |
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1994 onwards |
Chairman of the Board and Research Director at the Centre for Liberal
Strategies, Sofia, Public Policy Research Institute |
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2000 onwards |
Member
of the Advisory Board on Southeastern Europe of the EastWest Institute, New
York |
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1999 onwards |
Member
of the Advisory Board of Freedom House project in Central and Eastern Europe
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1998 |
Member
of the Editorial Board of East Central Europe/L’Europe du Centre-Est,
academic journal published by Central European University-Budapest and
Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study |
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1997-98 |
Member
of the Advisory Board of Democracy Network Program in Bulgaria, /USAID
Project/, Bulgaria |
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1997 |
Member
of the Board of the Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation on the Balkans,
Thessaloniki, Greece |
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1996 |
Founding member of the Balkan Civic Network |
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1996-97 |
Member
of the Board of the Union of the Bulgarian Foundations and Civic
Associations |
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1995 onwards |
Member
of the Council of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria |
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1994 |
Lecturer at the New Bulgarian University |
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1992-94 |
Program Officer, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Sofia |
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1990-92 |
Graduate Student at the Institute for Philosophical Sciences, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences |
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2000 |
Member
of the research team, EastWest Institute study on the Round table 1 and 3 of
the Stability Pact, commissioned by the Canadian Government |
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2000 |
Member
of the Steering Committee and project coordinator;
Agenda
for Civil Society in Southeastern Europe (2000-2003), supported by Central
European University, Volkswagen Foundation, The Bank of Sweden, German
Ministry of Science and Research |
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1999 |
Head
of the Research Team: Special Report on Human Security in South Eastern
Europe. A project commissioned by UNDP |
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1998 |
Head
of the Research Team: Illuminating the Grey Zone Effect. The Impact of
NATO Enlargement on the NATO Have-Nots. International project including
Hudson Institute(USA), Public Policy Institute (Bratislava) and others
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1997 |
Head
of the Research Team: Bulgaria in the Regional Context: Risky Scenarios
for Bulgaria till Year 2010. Project commissioned by UNDP |
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1997 |
Head
of the Research Team: Current State and Prospects for Cooperation Between
the Countries of Southeastern Europe. Project commissioned by Bulgarian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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1996 |
Head
of the Policy Group: Structuring the Administration of the President.
Project commissioned by the President of the Republic of Bulgaria
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1996 |
Head
of the Research Team: Bulgarian Primaries. Project Resulted in the
Introduction of the American-Style Primary Presidential Selection in
Bulgaria |
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1995 |
Head
of the Policy Group: Drafting New Electoral Law. Project commissioned
by the Bulgarian Parliament |
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1995 |
Member
of the Research Team - Vision for the Balkans. International Study of the
Comparative Advantages of the Regions Commissioned and Headed by the World
Bank |