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<title><![CDATA[Ivan Krastev - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19865.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ivan Krastev]]></description><category domain="19865">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[What Liberals Got Wrong About 1989]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ivan Krastev</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As I witnessed the despair and incomprehension of liberals worldwide after Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory in November'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s U.S. presidential election, I had a sinking feeling that I had been through this before. The moment took me back to 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, signaling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberal Europe Must Learn Some History Lessons]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ivan Krastev</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Giving up the idea that 1989 marked an epochal victory for its worldview would reveal our current moment more clearly]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democracies Can&rsquo;t Take Too Much Drama]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ivan Krastev</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an ideal world, electoral politics should cool passions, not inflame them]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorry, NATO. Trump Doesn't Believe in Allies.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/opinion/trump-nato-summit-allies.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ivan Krastev</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Europe has to understand that in the American president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s twisted worldview, there are only fans and enemies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cold War Isn't Back. So Don't Think Like It Is.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/opinion/the-cold-war-isnt-back-so-dont-think-like-it-is.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ivan Krastev</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SOFIA, Bulgaria '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Being Bulgarian, I can tell you that international news media cover elections in small European countries the same way a literature professor reads a spy novel during a summer holiday: It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a pleasant diversion, but one quickly forgets the characters, and it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Understanding Vladimir Putin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/opinion/why-putin-loves-trump.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ivan Krastev</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH, is war coming?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The question is asked in the first frame of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Myroporyadok'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' ('&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'World Order'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'), a manifesto-style documentary aired in the last days of December on Russian state television. And in the following two-plus hours,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin Trying to Teach the West a Lesson in Syria?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/opinion/ivan-krastev-is-putin-trying-to-teach-us-a-lesson.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ivan Krastev</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, after Russian planes bombed antigovernment forces near the Syrian town of Homs, a senior American official complained to me: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What Russia is doing in Syria is not an effort to fight the Islamic State; it is not old-fashioned realpolitik. It is not even a cynical attempt...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin Aims to Overturn European Order]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/04/16/putins_plan_for_overturning_the_european_order.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ivan Krastev</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russia's willingness to violate Ukraine's territorial sovereignty is the gravest challenge to the European order in over half a century. The conflict pits a vast nuclear power against a state equal in size to France, an autocratic regime against a revolutionary government. The Russian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Through Russian Eyes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113003156.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ivan Krastev</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who observed that relations between two actors really involve six "persons": each actor's self-image, each actor's image of the other and, finally, what each actor actually is. Under this rubric, the success of President Obama's "reset" policy with...]]></description>
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