Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group, and a member of the Board of Directors of GLOBSEC. He was a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times (2015–2021) and currently is a Financial Times contributing editor. Ivan Krastev is the author of Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2020); The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2019), co-authored with Stephen Holmes and winner of the 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize; After Europe (UPenn Press, 2017); Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest (UPenn Press, 2014); and In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders? (TED Books, 2013). Ivan Krastev is the winner of the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing 2020.
The Return of the Future and the Last Man: Politics of Demographic Imagination
2025 Mercator-IPC Visiting Senior Fellow Ivan Krastev was hosted by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University and gave a seminar titled "The Return of the Future and the Last Man: The Politics of Demographic Imagination," moderated by Meltem Müftüler-Baç, Dean of the FASS at Sabancı University, on October 14.