Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is executive director the first pan-European think tank, the European Council on Foreign Relations. His first book, Why Europe will run the 21st Century, has been translated into 17 languages. His second book, What does China Think?, will be published later in the year. Mr. Leonard has spent time in Washington as a transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in Beijing as a visiting scholar of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and in Brussels as a trainee in the legal service of the European Council. Previously, he was the director of foreign policy at the London-based Center for European Reform. For six years before that, Mr. Leonard was the director of the Foreign Policy Center, a think tank he helped found at the age of 24, under the patronage of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
News Articles
Why Europe Will Run the 21st CenturySeptember 13, 2005After launching in Europe earlier this year, Mark Leonard's Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century will be released for an American audience on September 13. Leonard wrote the book while serving as a Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, and in it describes the European Union’s strength as a “transformative power.”A Transatlantic Strategy to Promote Democratic Development in the Broader Middle EastFebruary 28, 2005Since the September 11 attacks, a number of U.S. and European strategists have called for a fundamental paradigm shift in how the United States and Europe engage the broader Middle East.Publications
New Dangers to the Western Liberal OrderNovember 02, 2012This policy brief presents two views on a purported widening divide between Berlin and Washington, DC.
