Ivan Krastev
Ivan Krastev
Ivan Krastev (Bulgarian: Иван Кръстев, born 1965 in Lukovit, Bulgaria, is a political scientist, the Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, permanent fellow at the IWM, Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna., and 2013-14 Richard von Weizsäcker fellow at the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin...
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America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.
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The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with democracy do not dream about the Chinese model or any other form of authoritarian rule. They do not dream about government that controls Internet and puts in prison those daring to disagree.
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For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
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Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.
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America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.
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Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.
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Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.