Ivan Krastev is a political scientist, currently serving as the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia. He is also permanent fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna.Previously, Krastev was executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans chaired by the former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Edition of Foreign Policy.Krastev is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. His first book, "Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption," was published in 2004, and he has published several more since.