Ivan Krastev Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.”

“The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.”

“True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.”

“America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'”

“Germany, because of the fact and the perception of a special relationship with Russia, is the only one who can influence Russian debate. Russians also believe that Germans understand them best because they've been through a big war and know what humiliation means.”

“In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.' This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn't work.”