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Languages: English, French, German
Areas of Expertise: Geo-politics and Geo-economics, China, EU-Russia relations, transatlantic relations, EU institutions, Public diplomacy and nation branding, UK foreign policy
Mark Leonard is co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think tank.
He writes a syndicated column on global affairs for Reuters.com and is Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geoeconomics.
Previously he worked as director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform and as director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a think tank he founded at the age of 24 under the patronage of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In the 1990s Mark worked for the think tank Demos where his Britain™ report was credited with launching Cool Britannia. Mark has spent time in Washington, D.C. 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.
Honoured as a “Young Global Leader” of the World Economic Forum, he spends a lot of time helping governments, companies, and international organisations make sense of the big geo-political trends of the twenty-first century. He is a regular speaker and prolific writer and commentator on global issues, the future of Europe, China's internal politics, and the practice of diplomacy and business in a networked world. His essays have appeared in publications such as Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung, El Pais, Gazeta Wyborcza, Foreign Policy, the New Statesman, The Daily Telegraph, The Economist, Time, and Newsweek.
As well as writing and commenting frequently in the media on global affairs, Mark is author of two best-selling books. His first book, Why Europe will run the 21st Century, was published in 2005 and translated into 19 languages. Mark’s second book, What does China think? was published in 2008 and translated into 15 languages. He has published an edited volume on Connectivity Wars and is working on a future book on the same topic.
Mark Leonard - 23 June 2017
The five forces that are 'liquidising' global security
This time, ECFR's director Mark Leonard is on the other side of the microphone and tells you all you need to know about the results of the UK General election.
The podcast was recorded on 9th June 2017.
Bookshelf:
Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Baron Noir, French drama series, 2016
Mark Leonard, Winners and losers in the UK election
Mark Leonard - 09 June 2017
The UK election result emphatically confirmed the sense that the political class is out of touch with popular sentiment.
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's Paris office, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, and ECFR's Research Director, Jeremy Shapiro, about the consequences of the US withdrawal from the Paris climate deal.
The podcast was recorded on 5th June 2017.
Bookshelf:
Francois Godement, Expanded ambitions, shrinking achievements: How China sees the global order
Richard Haass, World in Disarray, A American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London Novels)
Michael Anton, America and the Liberal International Order
by Susi Dennison , Mark Leonard, Nick Witney - 16th May, 2016
A British exit from the EU would make it harder to fight crime and terrorism, reduce Britain’s ability to lead and influence its partners, and weaken NATO
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by Dennison et al. - 28th January, 2016
The sixth ECFR Foreign Policy Scorecard highlights the EU's diminishing ability to influence its neighbours, and the neighbourhood's growing impact on the EU.
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by Ulrike Esther Franke, Mark Leonard - 20th January, 2016
Why migration, finance and trade are the geo-economic battlegrounds of the future
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by Mark Leonard - 26th March, 2015
Chinesische Experten und Intellektuelle analysieren im ECFR-Essayband „China 3.0“ die politischen Trends, die das neue China ausmachen.
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by Mark Leonard - 11th March, 2015
With the prospect of a referendum before 2017, a British Exit from the EU led by a Europhobic elite is a real possibility – with disasterous consequences.
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Mark Leonard - 09 June 2017
The UK election result emphatically confirmed the sense that the political class is out of touch with popular sentiment.
Mark Leonard - 30 May 2017
To bring true change, Macron will have to reconcile technocracy and populism.
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Ulrike Esther Franke & Mark Leonard - 03 May 2017
Donald Trump's government is increasingly taking aim at Germany – it is time for Berlin to acknowledge the potential danger.
Mark Leonard - 21 April 2017
Europe must address seriously the possibility of Marine Le Pen winning, however unlikely it may seem.
Mark Leonard - 30 March 2017
Even those who seem to take Trump seriously are failing to get to the root of Trumpism.
Mark Leonard - 01 March 2017
As global power has shifted from the West to the “rest,” the liberal world order has become an increasingly contested idea.
Mark Leonard - 16 February 2017
The five forces that are 'liquidising' global security.
Mark Leonard & Vessela Tcherneva - 07 February 2017
Ironically, the deeply Euroskeptic U.S. president and his ally in the Kremlin may provide the push Europe needs to finally resolve its biggest crises.
This time, ECFR's director Mark Leonard is on the other side of the microphone and tells you all you need to know about the results of the UK General election.
The podcast was recorded on 9th June 2017.
Bookshelf:
Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Baron Noir, French drama series, 2016
Mark Leonard, Winners and losers in the UK election
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's Paris office, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, and ECFR's Research Director, Jeremy Shapiro, about the consequences of the US withdrawal from the Paris climate deal.
The podcast was recorded on 5th June 2017.
Bookshelf:
Francois Godement, Expanded ambitions, shrinking achievements: How China sees the global order
Richard Haass, World in Disarray, A American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London Novels)
Michael Anton, America and the Liberal International Order
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's offices in Paris, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, and Berlin, Almut Möller, about President Macron’s newly appointed government, his proposals for the Eurozone and the EU and the future of the Franco-German relation.
The podcast was recorded on 17th May 2017 in Berlin.
Bookshelf:
Andre Wilkens, Der diskrete Charme der Bürokratie: Gute Nachrichten aus Europa
Antoine Garapon & Michel Rosenfeld, Démocraties sous stress - Les défis du terrorisme global
L'imaginaire historique d'Emmanuel Macron, a France Culture podcast available here.
This week, rather than putting out our ordinary podcast, we're leaving the floor to Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, head of ECFR Paris, who's hosting a discussion with the heads of most of ECFR's offices from around Europe to look at France and Macron's rise from the outside in.
Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's office in Sofia, Vessela Tcherneva and the director of ECFR's Wider Europe programme, Fredrik Wesslau about the crisis in Macedonia and the bigger picture of political stagnation and chaos in the Balkans, at a time when accession to the EU is losing its credibility in the region.
The podcast was recorded on 5th May 2017.
Bookshelf:
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Dubravka Ugrešić, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR's Council members, Christine Ockrent, an eminent journalist, and Laurence Parisot, the former head of the main polling company in France, about the second-round of the French presidential election where voters are facing a choice that will have enormous consequences for France and for the future of the European Union.
The podcast was recorded on 25th April 2017.
Bookshelf:
Zygmunt Bauman et al., L'âge de la Régression
Anne Nivat, Dans quelle France on vit
Laurence Parisot, Un piège bleu Marine
Christine Ockrent, Who is Marine Le Pen?
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Tom Nuttall, author of the Charlemagne column in the Economist, and Susi Dennison, director of ECFR's European Power programme, about May's real reasons for calling elections and the implications for the Brexit negotiations.
The podcast was recorded on 21st April 2017.
Bookshelf:
Alexander Betts & Paul Collier, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Emmanuel Macron, Révolution
Christopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Michael Gove, Now we’ll find out what Mayism stands for, The Times, 21st April 2017
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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR's research director, Jeremy Shapiro and Asia & China experts Angela Stanzel and François Godement about Trump's Asia policy and EU's response to it.
The podcast was recorded on 13th April 2017.
Bookshelf:
Bobo Lo, A Wary Embrace
Daniel Drezner, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas.
Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
Dale C. Copeland, Economic Interdependence and War
Interview of Mark Leonard in "L'Express" regarding the results of the general election in the United-Kingdom.
Mark Leonard is quoted on the appeal of Jeremy Corbyn's election campaign.
Mark Leonard, analiza en "El País" la elección del nuevo presidente de Francia.
Op-ed of Mark Leonard in "Le Monde" regarding Macron's election and its implication for the European Union.
To offer a successful third way, Macron will need to reconcile populism and technocracy, writes Mark Leonard.
Mark Leonard is quoted on the differences and similarities of Macron and Trump.
Mark Leonard explains why Brexit talks might be calamitous for both sides.
Mark Leonard is quoted on the strategic challenges that Macron's party 'En Marche' poses to other French parties.
Interview of Mark Leonard in France Culture regarding the elections in the United-Kingdom.
Mark Leonard op-ed in "El País" regarding the French presidential election.
Email: mark.leonard@ecfr.eu
Tel: +44 (0)20 7227 6869