Writing

Selected Writings

• “Around the halls: Brookings experts analyze the European Parliament election results” - Brookings - May 28, 2019 - with Thomas Wright, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Célia Belin, Giovanna de Maio, Molly Montgomery, and Amanda Sloat

• “Europe votes: Why the European Parliament elections matter” - Brookings - May 8, 2019 - with Thomas Wright

• “The Eclipse of the European Union’s Global Influence” - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs - April 6, 2019 - with Célia Belin

• “Mutations of the left in Western Europe” - Brookings - February 26, 2019 - with Célia Belin

• “The anatomy of illiberal states: Assessing and responding to democratic decline in Turkey and Central Europe” - Brookings - February 26, 2019 - with Alina Polyakova, Torrey Taussig, Kemal Kirişci, Amanda Sloat, James Kirchick, Melissa Hooper, Norman Eisen, and Andrew Kenealy

• "On the brink: The United Kingdom and Ireland prepare for Brexit" - Brookings - October 31, 2018 - with Sam Denney

• "'To destroy the liberal world order': Trump, Putin, and the imperiled trans-Atlantic alliance" - Brookings - July 20, 2018

• "Europe tussles over migration politics" - Brookings - June 26, 2018 - with Jessica Brandt

• "Trump and the trans-Atlantic divide" - Brookings - May 31, 2018

• "Further down the spiral: Russia and the West after Putin's re-'election'" - Brookings - April 6, 2018 - with Filippos Letsas

• "Ireland's Taoiseach on the challenge of Brexit and the power of small countries" - Brookings - March 27, 2018 - with Filippos Letsas

• "European Politics Is Turning French" - The American Interest / Brookings - March 22, 2018 - with Célia Belin

• "Norway champions the liberal international order" - Brookings - January 17, 2018

• "The Democrats' Foreign Policy in the Shadow of Trump" - The German Marshall Fund of the United States - October 30, 2017

• "Bernie Sanders, Surprise Defender of American Leadership in the Liberal International Order" - Out of Order - September 28, 2017

• "Suspicious Minds: U.S.-German Relations in the Trump Era" - Transatlantic Academy - May 9, 2017 - with Frédéric Bozo, Stefan Fröhlich, Wade Jacoby, Harold James, Michael Kimmage, Hans Kundnani, Yascha Mounk, Mary Elise Sarotte, Stephen F. Szabo, and Heidi Tworek

• "Merkel and Trump: Awkward Partners in Leadership" - Transatlantic Academy - March 20, 2017

• "Weathering the Storm: Talking European Populism on the Eve of the U.S. Election" - German Marshall Fund of the United States - November 7, 2016

• "Russia Trying to Fill West’s Void in Serbia" - Transatlantic Academy - June 8, 2016

• "After Trump’s Super Tuesday: What Should U.S. Allies Expect?" - German Marshall Fund of the United States - March 2, 2016

• "Revolutions of Dignity: 1989, the Arab Spring, and Ukraine" - German Marshall Fund of the United States - June 9, 2015 - with Neil Walther

• "Policymakers Ignore Religion at Their Own Peril" - German Marshall Fund of the United States - May 13, 2015 - with Stephen F. Szabo

• "U.S. Democracy Promotion from Bush to Obama" - EUSPRING - April 2015 - with Emiliano Alessandri and Oz Hassan

• "The Assassination of Charlie Hebdo and the Right to Mock Religion" - Transatlantic Academy - January 8, 2015

• "Left Out in the Cold: The Problematic Partial Inclusion of Europe’s East" - The Penguin Revolutions - April 9, 2014

• "Pilgrims in Alaska" - The Penguin Revolutions - January 14, 2014

• "Expect continuity in US Middle East policy, until the reckoning with Iran" - Aspenia Online - March 22, 2013

• "The EU's Nobel" - The Penguin Revolutions - October 15, 2012

• "Armistice" - The Penguin Revolutions - December 1, 2011

• "Notes from the 9/11 Decade" - The Penguin Revolutions - September 11, 2011

• "Hope Sinks in Germany" - The Penguin Revolutions - March 7, 2011

• "International and Domestic Financial Crisis Responses in Latvia and Ukraine, 2008-2010" - Case Study for Johns Hopkins-SAIS - April 27, 2010 - with Philip Bednarczyk, Antonia Karaisl, and Zuzana Svetlosakova

• Report from Kyiv - Speech at Johns Hopkins-SAIS - February 16, 2010

• "Resetting Russian Relations" - Post Global Next Europe - July 27, 2009

• "U.S.-Central European Relations in the Age of Obama" - Center for European Policy Analysis - July 15, 2009 - editor, with Wess Mitchell

• "Switzerland: Saving a National Industry" - in L. Beke and E. Jones (ed.), European Responses to the Global Financial Crisis - May 2009

• "Russia's Olympic Election" - Post Global Next Europe - April 6, 2009

• "Artwork, Toilets, and EU Identity" - Post Global Next Europe - January 16, 2009

• "For New EU President, A Baffling Array of Challenges" - Post Global Next Europe - January 7, 2009

• "Reason Rules in Tussle with Kremlin" - Post Global Next Europe - October 24, 2008

• "McCain Falls Plainly on Spain" - Post Global Next Europe - October 14, 2008

• "Immigrants power local economy" - The Saratogian - June 24, 2007

• "Silicon Saxony: AMD a leader in East German economy" - The Saratogian - May 12, 2007

• "Gillibrand marks 100 days" - The Saratogian - April 21, 2007

• "Postcard from Hamburg, Germany" - The Bowdoin Orient - February 24, 2006

• "Legendary voice of American political dissent goes silent" - The Bowdoin Orient - February 25, 2005

• "Abroad program reacts to tsunami" - The Bowdoin Orient - January 28, 2005

• "Famed German screenwriter visits campus" - The Bowdoin Orient - November 12, 2004

Audio

• "Russia in Syria and A Mini-Reset?" - German Marshall Fund of the United States - September 29, 2015 - Podcast with Marek Menkiszak, Chris Miller, and Ulrich Speck

• "Islam and Turkey: From Muslim Democracy to Islamist Autocracy?" - German Marshall Fund of the United States - June 1, 2015 - Podcast with Nora Fisher Onar

• "Religious Activists and Foreign Policy in the West" - German Marshall Fund of the United States - May 4, 2015 - Podcast with Clifford Bob