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Ivan Krastev | EPS Spring Lecture: Europe in Trump's World

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Lecture Global/Intercultural Other

Mon, Mar 16, 2026

4:30 PM – 6 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Friend Center, Room 101

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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“Vertigo is something other than the fear of falling”- wrote Milan Kundera, “it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves”. The European Union is paralyzed in a similar vertigo moment - squeezed between “no longer” and “not yet”. Both its final borders, its institutional architecture and its geopolitical identity are put in question. Could it be that Europe’s current sense of vulnerability is above all a failure of the European imagination?

Registration is not required, open to the public.

Speakers

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Ivan Krastev

Chairman

Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia

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, European Investment Bank Global Advisory Council and the Board of Directors of GLOBSEC. He is a Financial Times contributing editor and 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 - won 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).


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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society (OWNER), European Union Program at Princeton