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This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it
looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what
institutions do. But in analyzing politics, this book seeks to
discover why institutions do what they do. The author delves into
political motivations at a time when "combating corruption" is the
fashion among the academic community. Krastev argues that
anti-corruption sentiments are not driven by the actual level of
corruption but by general disappointment with liberal reforms that
cause rising social inequality. In this collection of essays, the
author makes the provocative argument that the current
corruption-focused policies are doomed.
This book interrogates the nature of anti-Americanism today and
over the last century. It asks several questions: How do we define
the phenomenon from different perspectives: political, social, and
cultural? What are the historical sources and turning points of
anti-Americanism in Europe and elsewhere? What are its links with
anti-Semitic sentiment? Has anti-Americanism been beneficial or
self-destructive to its "believers"? Finally, how has the United
States responded and why? The authors, scholars from a multitude of
countries, tackle the potential political consequences of
anti-Americanism in Eastern and Central Europe, the region that has
been perceived as strongly pro-American.
In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev
reflects on the future of the European Union-and its potential lack
of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across
the continent and the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, the
European Union is in disarray and plagued by doubts as never
before. Krastev includes chapters devoted to Europe's major
problems (especially the political destabilization sparked by the
more than 1.3 million migrants from the Middle East, North Africa,
and South Asia), the spread of right-wing populism (taking into
account the election of Donald Trump in the United States), and the
thorny issues facing member states on the eastern flank of the EU
(including the threat posed by Vladimir Putin's Russia). He
concludes by reflecting on the ominous political, economic, and
geopolitical future that would await the continent if the Union
itself begins to disintegrate.
A impassioned defense of the European Union and a concise analysis
of its present challenges and future In this provocative book,
renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of
the European Union-and its potential lack of a future. With
far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and
the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, the European Union is in
disarray and plagued by doubts as never before. Krastev includes
chapters devoted to Europe's major problems (especially the
political destabilization sparked by the more than 1.3 million
migrants from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia), the
spread of right-wing populism (taking into account the election of
Donald Trump in the United States), and the thorny issues facing
member states on the eastern flank of the EU (including the threat
posed by Vladimir Putin's Russia). In a new afterword written in
the wake of the 2019 EU parliamentary elections, Krastev concludes
that although the union is as fragile as ever, its chances of
enduring are much better than they were just a few years ago.
*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize* FINANCIAL TIMES,
ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK A
landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the
crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did
the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?
In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal
democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European
countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself,
not only in the East but also back in the heartland of the West. In
this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and
Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to
be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. Reckoning with the
history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful
force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern
Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become
Westernized. Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an
ironic fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from
communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a
strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin's Russia and Orban's
Hungary into models for the United States. Written by two
pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light
that Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the
extraordinary history of our Age of Imitation.
Democracy Disrupted The Politics of Global Protest Ivan Krastev
"Few people can question the conventional wisdom of democracy like
Ivan Krastev. "Democracy Disrupted" is his latest and most
interesting intervention."--George Soros "The worldwide protests of
2011-2013 may have happened 'everywhere, ' but did they go
anywhere? Ivan Krastev argues persuasively that this was ultimately
a revolution that wasn't."--Timothy Garton Ash, University of
Oxford "A must read."--Moises Naim, Carnegie Endowment and author
of "The End of Power" Since the financial meltdown of 2008,
political protests have spread around the world like chain
lightning, from the "Occupy" movements of the United States, Great
Britain, and Spain to more destabilizing forms of unrest in
Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Thailand, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Ukraine. In
"Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest," commentator
and political scientist Ivan Krastev proposes a provocative
interpretation of these popular uprisings--one with ominous
implications for the future of democratic politics. Challenging
theories that trace the protests to the rise of a global middle
class, Krastev proposes that the insurrections express a pervasive
distrust of democratic institutions. Protesters on the streets of
Moscow, Sofia, Istanbul, and Sao Paulo are openly suspicious of
both the market and the state. They reject established political
parties, question the motives of the mainstream media, refuse to
recognize the legitimacy of any specific leadership, and reject all
formal organizations. They have made clear what they don't
want--the status quo--but they have no positive vision of an
alternative future. Welcome to the worldwide libertarian
revolution, in which democracy is endlessly disrupted to no end
beyond the disruption itself. Ivan Krastev is Chairman of the
Centre for Liberal Strategies in Bulgaria and author of "In
Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our
Leaders?" May 2014 88 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN 978-0-8122-2330-9
Paper $12.95t 8.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-9074-5 Ebook $9.95t 6.50 World
Rights Political Science Short copy: In "Democracy Disrupted,"
journalist and political scientist Ivan Krastev proposes a
provocative interpretation of the "Occupy" movements that have
surfaced in the United States, Great Britain, and Spain, as well as
the more destabilizing forms of unrest in Eastern Europe, the
Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR One of our most scintillating
public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the
pandemic and helps us think our way through it 'We are able to
imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that
was considered unimaginable...' Beneath the panic and bluster,
beneath the confusing speeches and the conflicting advice, the
Coronavirus pandemic acted, changing our world in the most profound
ways. The tragic human cost and the economic devastation will be
assessed and calculated for decades to come. But the pandemic also
changed things in ways that are less easily expressed and
understood. It has made bare the frayed contradictions of modern
life. It has distorted things that seemed simple and settled. It
has affirmed plain, uncomfortable truths. In this brilliant,
thought-provoking essay, Ivan Krastev, one of our most interesting
thinkers today, explores the pandemic's immediate consequences and
conceives of its long-term legacy. Will things be different for the
communities most harmed, and for those who escaped the worst? Where
are we now with the US and China, with the UK and Europe? And how
do we think our way through the unthinkable?
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