Ivan Krastev Quotes

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Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn’t matter anymore – the problem is the media.
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America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.
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For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.
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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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True, Putin‘s Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia’s stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.
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Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.
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The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia’s invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.
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America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but ‘expats.’
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The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe’s current institutional infrastructure.
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What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions – political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies.
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As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver‘s seat. But this does not mean that China won‘t exploit that world for its own purposes.
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