Ivan Krastev
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Oct 5, 2026
Gavin JacobsonGUEST
Yet precisely because they were formed in the shadow and aftermath of the state socialist experiment, outside the complacent orthodoxies of the Western core, they have turned the tables.
Gavin JacobsonGUEST
Like other indispensable voices from the former Soviet states, thinkers like Ivan Krastev, Branko Milanovic, Daniela Gabor, György Dalos, or Jan Zielonka, they have become the most incisive, vital diagnosticians of Western capitalism's crisis.
Gavin JacobsonGUEST
Their vantage point affords them a rare clarity alongside a historicized understanding of power and human agency.
Gavin JacobsonGUEST
That insistence on displacing Atlantis' self-absorption, often from the margins, to uncover clearer truth is a quintessential Equator sensibility.
Gavin JacobsonGUEST
Yet precisely because they were formed in the shadow and aftermath of the state socialist experiment, outside the complacent orthodoxies of the Western core, they have turned the tables.
Gavin JacobsonGUEST
Like other indispensable voices from the former Soviet states, thinkers like Ivan Krastev, Branko Milanovic, Daniela Gabor, Georgi Deluzhin or Jan Zalonka, they have become the most incisive, vital diagnosticians of Western capitalism's crisis.
Gavin JacobsonGUEST
Their vantage point affords them a rare clarity alongside a historicized understanding of power and human agency.
Gavin JacobsonGUEST
That insistence on displacing Atlantis' self-absorption, often from the margins, to uncover clearer truth is a quintessential Equator sensibility.
Andrej MatišákHOST
I have to say that I don't cover the Western Balkans as extensively as in the past, but it is always interesting to look at what's going on in the region.
Andrej MatišákHOST
So at the Europe Future Forum in Warsaw, I sat down with my friend Ivan Vejvoda from the Europe's Futures Initiative, and we talked about his home country, Serbia.
Andrej MatišákHOST
We discussed President Alexander Vucic's maneuvers regarding Radko Mladic's funeral, Russia, and the European Union.
Andrej MatišákHOST
And, of course, the upcoming elections that will be held on October 25th.
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Ivan VejvodaGUEST
And I think part of the instability is because of that, because I feel that if there was an association, we would have even greater stability.
Ivan VejvodaGUEST
The result of that, that still many Serbs have left, it's really a question how many people still live in the north of Kosovo.
Ivan VejvodaGUEST
Oliver Ivanovich was my friend and who was assassinated.
Ivan VejvodaGUEST
By the accounts of his friends, political friends and his family, it was Serbs who ordered that.
Marci ShoreGUEST
Like, nobody can say that they didn't know.
Marci ShoreGUEST
I mean, and historically, Ivan Krastev's written well about this.
Marci ShoreGUEST
You know, when dictators come into power for the second time, it's often more dangerous.
Marci ShoreGUEST
Like they've learned things the first time.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
The far-right Alternative for Germany party, known as AFD, made unprecedented gains in regional elections recently, tapping into discontent over migration and the economy, amongst other things.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
Author and political scientist Ivan Krastev has studied the tense political climate in his books like After Europe and The Light That Failed.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
He talks to Walter Isaacson now about far-right and far-left parties that threaten Europe's establishment.
Walter IsaacsonCORRESPONDENT
Thank you, Christian and Ivan Krastev.
Walter IsaacsonCORRESPONDENT
Welcome to the show.
Walter IsaacsonCORRESPONDENT
Thank you for the invitation.
Thomas LaffitteGUEST
And perhaps the best symbol of that is the defeat of Viktor Orban not so long ago.
Thomas LaffitteGUEST
And it was Ivan Krastev who actually said that Viktor Orban was elected as a patriot, and he lost as a globalist.
Thomas LaffitteGUEST
And I think he really put a finger on something true.
Thomas LaffitteGUEST
Orban was elected, and he would be talking about Hungary.