BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:28024@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Living in Revolutionary Times DTSTAMP:20261001T231933Z DTSTART:20261211T190000Z DESCRIPTION:With 2027 being a crucial – and possibly a ‘long and cruel’ – y ear for Europe\,\nas elections are coming up in France\, Italy\, Poland an d Spain\, we speak with\npolitical scholar Ivan Krastev about how Europe s hould respond to the\ngeopolitical storms raging around.\n\n‘It feels like we are living in revolutionary times – but if this is a\nrevolution\, it is a revolution without a project.’ Few commentators have as\nsharp an eye for contemporary geopolitics as political scientist Ivan Krastev.\nBorn\, raised and educated behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria\, and later worki ng\nin Oxford and Vienna\, Krastev has a unique understanding of both West ern and\nEastern European perspectives\, giving him a keen insight into on e of the most\npressing questions in today’s geopolitics: how to deal with Russia.\n\nThe world is adrift\, just as it was in the last century. But whereas the great\nideologies of the twentieth century promised a utopian future\, speaking of it in\nterms of what could be gained\, Krastev observ es how today we only imagine the\nfuture in terms of what can be lost. He sees a revolution without a project.\n\nWith 2027 being a crucial – and po ssibly a ‘long and cruel\n[https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/opinion/poli tics-revolution-trump-change.html]’\n(dixit Krastev) – year for Europe\, a s elections are coming up in France\, Italy\,\nPoland and Spain\, we speak with Krastev about how Europe should respond to the\ngeopolitical storms raging around. How does he explain the enduring popularity\nof the radical right\, as we saw again recently in Germany? What does the\n(potential) w in of Le Pen in France and AfD in Germany mean for the EU’s\nposition in t he world? And is there already an endgame in sight in Ukraine?\n\nAbout Iv an Krastev\n\nIvan Krastev is the holder of the Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellowship at the\nIWM. Furthermore\, he is the chairman of the Centre fo r Liberal Strategies\, a\nfounding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations\, a member of\nthe Board of Trustees of the Internation al Crisis Group\, the European Investment\nBank Global Advisory Council\, and the Board of Directors of GLOBSEC.\n\nHe is a Financial Times contribu ting editor and the author of Is it Tomorrow\,\nYet? How the Pandemic Chan ges Europe (Allen Lane/Penguin\, 2020)\; The Light that\nFailed: A Reckoni ng (Allen Lane/Penguin\, 2019)\, co-authored with Stephen Holmes\,\nwhich won the 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize\; After Europe (UPenn Press\, 2017 )\;\nDemocracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest (UPenn Press\, 20 14)\, and In\nMistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don’t Trust Our Leaders? (TED\nBooks\, 2013). URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/living-in-revolutionary-times GEO:52.3630433;4.8828596 LOCATION:De Balie - Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10\, 1017 RR Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,books,democracy,geopolitiek & mensenrechten,le idseplein X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

With 2027 being a crucial – and pos sibly a ‘long and cruel’ – year for Europe, as elections are coming up in France, Italy, Poland and Spain, we speak with political scholar Ivan Kras tev about how Europe should respond to the geopolitical storms raging arou nd.

‘It feels like we are living in revolutionary times – but if this is a revolution, it is a revolution without a project.’ Few c ommentators have as sharp an eye for contemporary geopolitics as political scientist Ivan Krastev. Born, raised and educated behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria, and later working in Oxford and Vienna, Krastev has a unique understanding of both Western and Eastern European perspectives, giving h im a keen insight into one of the most pressing questions in today’s geopo litics: how to deal with Russia.

The world is adrift, just as it wa s in the last century. But whereas the great ideologies of the twentieth c entury promised a utopian future, speaking of it in terms of what could be gained, Krastev observes how today we only imagine the future in terms of what can be lost. He sees a revolution without a project.

With 202 7 being a crucial – and possibly a ‘long and cruel’ (dixit Krastev) – year for Europe, as elections are coming up in France, Italy, Poland and Spain, we speak with Krastev about how Eur ope should respond to the geopolitical storms raging around. How does he e xplain the enduring popularity of the radical right, as we saw again recen tly in Germany? What does the (potential) win of Le Pen in France and AfD in Germany mean for the EU’s position in the world? And is there already a n endgame in sight in Ukraine?

About Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev is the holder of the Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellowsh ip at the IWM. Furthermore, he is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal S trategies, a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Rela tions, a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group , the European Investment Bank Global Advisory Council, and the Board of D irectors of GLOBSEC.

He is a Financial Times contributing editor a nd the author of Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe< /em> (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2020); The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2019), co-authored with Stephen Holmes, which won the 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize; After Europe (UPenn Press, 2 017); Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest (UPenn Press, 2014), and In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don’t Trust Our Leaders? (TED Books, 2013).

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