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Staff Profile: Mark Leonard

Recent Commentary

• The 20 year crisis
  05 Feb 10
• How to deal with a more assertive China?
  04 Feb 10
• Europe must rediscover its power
  01 Dec 09
• The self-hating Parliament
  09 Jun 09
• Big Brother versus YouTube
  17 Jul 08
• Boycotting the China Olympics
  16 Feb 08
• What does China think?
  11 Feb 08
• A ‘Power Audit’ of EU 27-Russia relations
  07 Nov 07
• Drafting a global player
  17 Oct 07

Mark Leonard is the Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.  Previously he was 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 18 languages. February 2008 saw the publication of his second book, 'What does China think?', published by Fourth Estate in the UK and Public Affairs in the US.

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 7031 1620        

Recent Publications include:

ECFR publications

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