John K. Glenn Senior Non-Resident Fellow Location: Non-resident

Dr. John K. Glenn is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Elliott School for Public Affairs at George Washington University, where he teaches a graduate seminar on the European Union.  Dr. Glenn is an expert on foreign policy issues including the prospects for U.S.-European cooperation on global challenges, the image of the United States in the world, public opinion and foreign policy, and democracy promotion. He joined the German Marshall Fund in 2004 as director of foreign policy, responsible for Transatlantic Trends, an annual survey of foreign policy attitudes in the United States and Europe, and the primary author of the Key Findings Report from 2005-08.  In this role he also oversaw GMF's foreign policy grantmaking programs to think tanks and scholars, managed the Transatlantic Fellows program, and directed numerous policy projects and partnerships.  Before coming to GMF, Dr. Glenn was executive director of the Council for European Studies, the leading American professional association for the study of Europe in the social sciences and humanities, and visiting scholar and adjunct professor at New York University's Center for European Studies from 2000 to 2004.  Previously, he served as a project manager at the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University where he directed a project on NGO strategies for democratization and conflict prevention in formerly communist states. He is the author of Framing Democracy: Civil society and civic movements in Eastern Europe (Stanford University Press, 2001) and co-editor of The Power and Limits of NGOs: A critical look at building democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Columbia University Press, 2002), as well as numerous scholarly articles and policy briefs. He is a frequent commentator on international affairs, having appeared on CNN International, CNN's Insight, BBC World News, Bloomberg TV, Reuters Television, BBC World Service, Voice of America's FOCUS, Deutsche Welle, and NPR's Marketplace.

Recent Publications by John K. Glenn
How “European” is Obama?
The myth of “exporting” democracy: Lessons from Eastern Europe after 1989
Talking transatlantic, turning toward Asia?
Sarkozy's decision ups pressure on Obama
Engaging Europe on Afghanistan