Ivan Krastev is a Bulgarian political scientist, chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia. He has been visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, from June-December 2009. He is also a board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the Trilateral Commission; and the academic director of the Open Century Project of the Central European University, Budapest. In 2004-2006 he was executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans, chaired by Italy’s former prime minister Giuliano Amato. Ivan Krastev is the editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian edition of Foreign Policy, and a frequent contributor to Transit – Europäische Revue (edited at the IWM). His publications in English include Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anti-Corruption (CEU Press, 2004); (co-editor, with Alina Mungiu-Pippidi) Nationalism after Communism: Lessons Learned (CEU Press, 2004); and (co-editor, with Alan McPherson) The Anti-American Century (CEU Press, 2007).