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Staff Profile: Mark Leonard

Recent Commentary

• A marginalised Britain makes EU break-up more likely
  03 Nov 11
• Why enlargement-lite will not save the Arab Spring
  25 Oct 11
• Europe's multipolar neighbourhood
  04 Oct 11
• Why China wants a G3 world
  12 Sep 11
• A tribute to Ron Asmus
  02 May 11

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Recent Blogs

• Germany in Europe: Germany 2.0? The calm before the storm
  20 Jan 11

recent press

• China Daily
  13 Jan 12
• International Relations and Security Network
  09 Jan 12
• Rzeczpsopolita
  17 Dec 11
• El Pais
  07 Dec 11

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Mark Leonard is Co-Founder and Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.  Previously he worked as Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform, and Director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a think-tank he founded under the patronage of Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Mark has spent time in Washington as a Transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and in Beijing as a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences.

He is a prolific writer and commentator whose work has appeared in publications including Time, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Prospect, The Spectator, New Statesman, Foreign Policy, The Washington Quarterly, Country Life, Arena, The Mirror, The Express, The Sun, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Wired. As well as opinion pieces, he occasionally writes features for the Financial Times Magazine and The Spectator - assignments that have led him to seek out barbecues in Texas, prisons in Egypt and cutting-edge architecture in China. His first book, Why Europe will run the 21st Century, has been translated into 19 languages. Mark’s second book, “What does China think?” was published in February 2008 and has been translated in to 14 languages.

Languages: English, French, German

Expertise: European Foreign Policy, China, Transatlantic Relations, EU Institutions, Public Diplomacy and Nation branding, UK Foreign Policy

Contact: write to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or call +44 (0)20 7227 6869     

Recent Publications include:

ECFR publications

The New German Question: How Europe can get the Germany it needs, policy brief with Ulrike Guérot, May 2011

The Spectre of a Multipolar Europe, ECFR Security Report, by Mark Leonard and Ivan Krastev, with Jana Kobzova, Dimitar Bechev and Andrew Wilson, October 2010

Re-wiring the US-EU relationship, ECFR memo, by Mark Leonard, Ulrike Guérot and Daniel Korski, 8 December 2008

Can the EU win the peace in Georgia?, ECFR policy brief, by Mark Leonard, Andrew Wilson and Nicu Popescu, 25 August 2008

A Power Audit of EU-Russia relations, ECFR report, by Mark Leonard and Nicu Popescu, 7 November 2007

New World Order: The balance of soft power and the rise of herbivorous powers, ECFR policy brief, by Mark Leonard Ivan Krastev, 24 October 2007

Journalism:

What next for China?, Renewal, Vol 17, No 1, 2009

Dinner in New York with George Soros, New Statesman, 4 December 2008

What now?, eGov Monitor, 5 November 2008

Poisonous Relations, Newsweek, 28 July 2008

Big Brother versus YouTube, Spectator, 17 July 2008

Get involved over Georgia or invite a war, Financial Times, 3 June 2008

The Rise of China's Neocons, Newsweek, 17 March 2008

China's new intelligentsia, Prospect, March 2008

A five-point strategy for EU-Russia relations, Europe's World

No grandstanding on China, please, The Times, 16 February 2008

Yuschenko: we are living in historical times, The Spectator, 16 May 2008

How Gordon Sees The World The Spectator, 23 August 2006

The battle for China's future Financial Times, 8 July 2005

Tangerine Dream: is political reform in Egypt possible? Financial Times

The US Heads Home: Will Europe Regret It? Financial Times

Think Tank pieces:

Divided World: The struggle for supremacy in 2020, Centre for European Reform, January 2007

The EUs Awkward Neighbour: time for a new policy on Belarus, Centre for European Reform, April 2006

Georgia and the EU: can Europes neighbourhood policy deliver?, Centre for European Reform, September 2005

Crunch-time on Iran: Five ways out of a nuclear crisis, Centre for European Reform, July 2005

Democracy and Human Development in the Broader Middle East: A Transatlantic Strategy for Partnership, Istanbul Papers, July 2004

Books:

Why Europe will run the 21st Century, 2005

What Does China Think?, 2008