Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of "The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict."

The Trump Effect Takes Europe

Perhaps Trump’s biggest contribution has been to Europe’s political unity.

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Has the ‘polycrisis’ overwhelmed us?

Just as social media competes for individuals’ attention, so do global crises.

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This Cold War is different

While China cannot win a battle against a US-led bloc, President Xi Jinping seems convinced that it can take its place as a great power in a fragmented global order. 

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Governing a post-Western world

The West’s problems are no longer the world’s problems

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Xi Jinping’s Idea of World Order

While the United States is betting on a polarised world, China is doing everything it can to advance a more fragmented one.

1y ago

The Next Globalisation

Developments in three areas – telework, renewables, and AI – will bind countries together in new networks of interdependence.

1y ago

Peak Atlantic Unity?

European leaders are breathing a huge sigh of relief following the Republicans’ failure to achieve a 'red wave' in the US midterm elections.

1y ago

Europe’s soft-power problem

The Ukraine crisis shows that the European Union (EU) has a problem with power.

1y ago
April 21, 2017
April 21, 2017

Planning for President Le Pen

After the United Kingdom's unexpected vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump's unexpected triumph in the US

April 1, 2017
April 1, 2017

Trump the ideologue?

Historians may come to see the American actor Alec Baldwin as US President Donald Trump's most useful ally. Baldwin's frequent and widely viewed impersonations of Trump on the comedy show “Saturday Night Live” turn Trumpism into a farce, blinding the president's political opponents to the seriousness of his ideology.

March 5, 2017
March 5, 2017

What liberal world order?

After the annus horribilis that was 2016, most political observers believe that the liberal world order is in serious trouble. But that is

December 27, 2016
December 27, 2016

The coming Brexit tragedy

This past year changed everything, except how governments think. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the pre-negotiations for Brexit.

September 4, 2016
September 4, 2016

Playing defense in Europe

The most frightening periods in history have often been interregnums – moments between the death of one king and the rise

April 23, 2016
April 23, 2016

The Migration Superpowers

We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own – a republic of the rootless – it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a population of more than 240 million people.

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