Author: Ivan Krastev

Quotes

Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.

Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.

- Ivan Krastev

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

- Ivan Krastev

A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.

A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.

- Ivan Krastev

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

- Ivan Krastev

It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.

It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.

- Ivan Krastev

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.

- Ivan Krastev

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