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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cooperation feasible preserve
For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
means regimes
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.
real government practice
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.
institutions mistrust transparency
Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.