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Ivan Krastev

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Name: Ivan Krastev

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Swamped by trust issues

HOW do you quieten the voice of distrust? The past few weeks there have been many accusations about foreign voters with Malaysian identification cards, discrepancy in voting procedures, mystery yellow boxes appearing, blackouts at counting sites and ... [Published The Sun Daily - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Malaysia, Allegation, Ivan Krastev, Leadership

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Bulgarian Election Shows Need to Clean House

It looks as though the center-right Citizens for European Development party won Bulgaria's early elections, the same party that triggered the vote by resigning from government amid protests in February. So has anything changed?The short answer is yes. ... [Published Bloomberg - May 13 2013]

Entities: GERB, Bulgaria, Boyko Borisov, Elections

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Big stories and little details: what Charles Mann misses

Charles Mann offers a big story in the latest issue of the Atlantic . It’s 11,000 words, and it’s based around an audacious premise: the end of energy scarcity. The peg for the story is Japan’s ongoing research on methane hydrate, an amalgam of natural ... [Published ...My heart's in Accra - May 08 2013]

Entities: Methane, Natural Gas, Hydrocarbon

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Deadlock, instability loom in Bulgaria

(AFP) - A winter of discontent in Bulgaria, when mass protests forced out the government, could give way to a spring of political deadlock and instability after elections Sunday in the EU's poorest country.The outcome is expected to be a fragmented parliament ... [Published Haveeru Daily Online - May 07 2013]

Entities: Bulgaria, Deadlock, GERB, Elections, Coalition

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

British Martialism

I know longform is just a long way of saying long, but sometimes there is a place for long articles, which they do in America but not here so much. They also do them in Australia. Or, at least, David Hayes does them in Inside Story.He has written a magnificent ... [Published The Independent - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: Rwanda, Ivan Krastev, Adrian Dennis, David Hayes

First reported Mar 28 2013 - Updated Mar 28 2013 - 1 reports

When capital flies, but corruption stays behind

One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national. That mismatch is one of the big sources of tension in the ... [Published Chrystia Freeland - Reuters.com - Mar 28 2013]

Entities: Kemal Dervis, Corruption, Cyprus, Taxes

First reported Mar 18 2013 - Updated Mar 18 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

Europe’s rulers whip up anti-immigrant chauvinism

Membership of the European Union is supposed to confer on a country’s citizens the right to free movement and freedom from discrimination on the grounds of nationality.The populations of Bulgaria and Romania have been targeted by the major European powers ... [Published World Socialist Web Site - Mar 18 2013]

Entities: European Union, Bulgaria, Romania

First reported Mar 12 2013 - Updated Mar 12 2013 - 1 reports

Is China more democratic than Russia?

On paper, Russia’s political system is an impressive reproduction of Westernrepresentative democracy, while the Chinese system remains an unreconstructedautocracy. The reality of the situation is much more complex, says IvanKrastev. Asking the ... [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Mar 12 2013]

Entities: Russia, China, Democracy

First reported Feb 07 2013 - Updated Feb 07 2013 - 1 reports

Exposing transparency for the conspiracy it really is

By Ivan KrastevOne of the most troubling outcomes of the ongoing financial crisis has been a collapse of trust in democratic institutions and politicians. Indeed, in 2012, the global public relations firm Edelman's "Trust Barometer" survey registered ... [Published Prague Post - Feb 07 2013]

Entities: Conspiracy, Ivan Krastev, Democracy, Mistrust

First reported Feb 06 2013 - Updated Feb 06 2013 - 1 reports

The transparency delusion

Transparency is the new political religion shared by a majority of civic activists and an increasing number of democratic governments. The transparency movement embodies the hope that a combination of new technologies, publicly accessible data, and ... [Published 3quarksdaily - Feb 06 2013]

Entities: Delusion, Ivan Krastev, Ralph Nader

First reported Jan 09 2013 - Updated Jan 09 2013 - 1 reports

Is democracy in crisis? A Q&A with TED ebook author Ivan Krastev, who says “yes”

All around the globe, people are feeling increasingly skeptical and mistrustful of their leaders. According to one global trust barometer , only 52% of survey respondents said that they trusted their government to do the right thing in 2011 and, ... [Published TED Blog - Jan 09 2013]

Entities: Democracy, Ivan Krastev, Cary Grant, Crisis, E-book

First reported Jan 04 2013 - Updated Jan 04 2013 - 1 reports

New TED Book: In Mistrust We Trust

A recent Gallup poll listed the least-trusted professions in America. At the bottom of the list: car salesmen and members of Congress. It’s not hard to understand why our politicians rate so poorly — scandals, myopia, obstinance, party loyalty over ... [Published TED Blog - Jan 04 2013]

Entities: Ivan Krastev, Mistrust, Democracy

Quotes

Voters are stuck in a blind alley, facing a "choice between the same parties they protested against this winter" , Ivan Krastev from the Centre for Liberal Strategies think-tank said

Deadlock, instability loom in Bulgaria [Published Haveeru Daily Online - May 07 2013]

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Swamped by trust issues [Published The Sun Daily - 20 hours ago]
The Resistible Fall of Europe: An Interview wit... [Published Project Syndicate - May 14 2013]
Egypt's Dismal Opposition: A Second Look [Published Carnegie Endowment - May 14 2013]
Bulgarian Election Shows Need to Clean House [Published Bloomberg - May 13 2013]
Big stories and little details: what Charles Ma... [Published ...My heart's in Accra - May 08 2013]
Deadlock, instability loom in Bulgaria [Published Haveeru Daily Online - May 07 2013]
Why making Europe 'German' won't fix crisis [Published Japan Times - Apr 21 2013]
British Martialism [Published The Independent - Apr 14 2013]
When capital flies, but corruption stays behind [Published Chrystia Freeland - Reuters.com - Mar 28 2013]
Europe’s rulers whip up anti-immigrant chauvinism [Published World Socialist Web Site - Mar 18 2013]
Russia: Historic Magnitsky Trial Brings Corrupt... [Published Impunity Watch - Mar 14 2013]
Is China more democratic than Russia? [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Mar 12 2013]
Would democratic change in Russia transform its... [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Feb 07 2013]
Exposing transparency for the conspiracy it rea... [Published Prague Post - Feb 07 2013]
The transparency delusion [Published 3quarksdaily - Feb 06 2013]
What they are saying [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Feb 06 2013]
The Post-Soviet Twilight [Published Policy Review - Feb 02 2013]
Is democracy in crisis? A Q&A with TED eboo... [Published TED Blog - Jan 09 2013]
New TED Book: In Mistrust We Trust [Published TED Blog - Jan 04 2013]
What they say [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Dec 14 2012]
Justin Zorn: The Progressive Case for Moving Ba... [Published Huffington Post - Nov 21 2011]

Blogs

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Big stories and little details: what Charles Ma... [Published ...My heart's in Accra - May 08 2013] Charles Mann offers a big story in the latest issue of the Atlantic . It’s 11,000 words, and it’s based around an audacious premise: the end of energy scarcity. The peg for the story is Japan’s ongoing research on methane hydrate, an amalgam of natural ...
When capital flies, but corruption stays behind [Published Chrystia Freeland - Reuters.com - Mar 28 2013] One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national. That mismatch is one of the big sources of tension in the ...
Russia: Historic Magnitsky Trial Brings Corrupt... [Published Impunity Watch - Mar 14 2013] Special Report – Reposted from the International Bar Association Russia is set to make history as the country’s first modern-day posthumous trial gets underway in Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court. Sergei Magnitsky. (Photo Courtesy of International ...
The transparency delusion [Published 3quarksdaily - Feb 06 2013] Transparency is the new political religion shared by a majority of civic activists and an increasing number of democratic governments. The transparency movement embodies the hope that a combination of new technologies, publicly accessible data, and ...
Is democracy in crisis? A Q&A with TED eboo... [Published TED Blog - Jan 09 2013] All around the globe, people are feeling increasingly skeptical and mistrustful of their leaders. According to one global trust barometer , only 52% of survey respondents said that they trusted their government to do the right thing in 2011 and, ...