Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia; Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. Member of the Founding Board, European Council on Foreign Relations; Member of the Board of Trustees, The International Crisis Group. Contributing opinion writer, New York Times. Latest books in English are “After Europe” (May 2017); “Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest” (May 2014); “In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?” (2013). Co-Author of “The Light that Failed” (Penguin, 2019) on perils of the politics of imitation.