Andrew Small
Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific ProgramAndrew Small is a Berlin-based senior transatlantic fellow with GMF's Indo-Pacific program. He returned to GMF after a period of leave in 2023-2024 to work as the first China fellow at IDEA, the advisory hub that reports to the European Commission president. He is the author of “The Rupture”, also titled “No Limits”, about the transformation of European and American policy toward China. It was named one of the Financial Times’ 2022 Politics Books of the Year. He also wrote, in 2015, “The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics”. His articles and papers have been published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and many other journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Small was based in GMF’s Brussels office for five years and the Washington, DC office for ten years, and has worked as a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He has provided congressional testimony on several occasions, including to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Small was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Media Mentions
China Hunts For Opportunities In Europe And Taiwan After Ukraine Diplomacy Goes Awry
Andrew Small, AL Jazeera, Pakistan: Woman suicide bomber change in Baloch rebels’ strategy?
Andrew Small, Nikkei Asia, U.S. sidelines Europe in battle to stem China's ambitions
‘Wild West’: China’s trade hopes in Afghanistan now hostage to nation’s security
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January 31, 2025
The stakes for the transatlantic allies in the next few years are even higher, as they face deepening alignment among an axis of adversaries,...
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January 27, 2025
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January 16, 2025
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August 24, 2023
In our latest quick reads series, GMF Experts discuss the 2023 BRICS summit and the announcement that Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia,...
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February 23, 2023
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February 16, 2023
Anniversaries should be celebratory, but some are painful remembrances of events that elicited profound change. ...
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February 14, 2023
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January 6, 2023
GMF experts at the start of last year warily watched the growing Russian threat to Ukraine. “A full-scale Russian invasion has not been as salient a...
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September 28, 2022
President Vladimir Putin’s latest escalation in Russia’s war against Ukraine—with a partial mobilization, preparations to annex Ukrainian territory,...
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March 18, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was always going to leave China in a difficult spot. ...
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January 6, 2022
As 2022 begins, eyes are trained on the Ukraine-Russia border as the potential for Russian escalation looms large. ...
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September 28, 2021
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September 3, 2021
Andrew Small speaks to Al Jazeera about the role China is expected to play in the reconstruction of Afghanistan....
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August 27, 2021
GMF’s Asia analysts Bonnie Glaser and Andrew Small answer some of the most important questions about what China’s goals in Afghanistan are and how the...
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August 18, 2021
The security situation in Afghanistan has been worsening since the United States and its European allies decided to withdraw from the decades-long...
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December 16, 2020
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October 19, 2020
Editor's Note: On October 6, Andrew Small, Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, joined an Asia Society Oxford-style debate...
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October 6, 2020
In the five years since the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was launched, it’s been beset by the winds of local politics and the waves of...
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September 14, 2020
Earlier today, Chinese president Xi Jinping met virtually with Germany’s Angela Merkel, European Council President Charles Michel, and European...
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September 11, 2020
Editor's Note: On September 9, Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, delivered testimony in...
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July 20, 2020
China’s ambassador to Sweden, Gui Congyou, has a colorful turn of phrase to describe his country’s approach to foreign policy: “We treat our...
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June 26, 2019
China’s globe-spanning infrastructure program is shrinking....
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April 8, 2019
As European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk prepare to meet with China’s Premier Li Keqiang at the...
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April 4, 2019
Over the past two years, Washington has come to embrace a policy of strategic competition with China....
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December 5, 2018
Q&A with Andrew Small...
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September 17, 2018
Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He has written extensively on...
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April 13, 2018
Listen to interviews with the report authors and featured speakers from the report rollout event, ...
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February 16, 2018
When Beijing announced its One Belt, One Road initiative five years ago, the global reaction was immediate and pronounced....
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February 16, 2018
Between India, Japan, the United States and EU, it should not be difficult to provide an economic counterweight to China in the strategically...
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January 11, 2018
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October 3, 2017
Rex Tillerson is in China for his second visit there as secretary of state....
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August 27, 2017
At the lowest ebb of the last annus horribilis for U.S.-Pakistan ties in 2011, soon after the special forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden in...
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August 23, 2017
China didn’t find mention in President Donald Trump’s speech on Afghanistan, but Beijing will be happy to be out of the spotlight....
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July 24, 2017
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been billed as the “flagship project” of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), constituting the most...
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June 22, 2017
After the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, many analysts expected that relations between the European Union and China would enter a...
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June 6, 2017
Andrew Small, a prominent expert on China and its relations with Pakistan, the U.S. and the European Union, has a nuanced and deliberate take on...
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May 5, 2017
Editor’s note: This article is part of anongoing WPR series about China’s One Belt, One Road in...
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October 17, 2016
What exactly is the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)?...
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September 30, 2016
Photo by: www.kremlin.ru...
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September 2, 2016
Andrew Small is a transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the author of ‘The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New...
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June 20, 2016
Nearly eight years ago, after being left in a minority of one, China backed down under intense pressure from the United States and acquiesced to the...
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February 4, 2016
Elizabeth Economy from the Council on Foreign Relations talks to Andrew Small about his book The China-Pakistan Axis on the podcast Asia Unbound....
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January 27, 2016
At the beginning of 2015, the focus of debate over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was whether it would go ahead at all....
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January 25, 2016
President Xi Jinxing’s visit to the Middle East last week appeared to be business as usual....
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Photo: Harry Metcalfe...
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Advances in the DPRK’s missile and nuclear capabilities mean that the North Korean challenge is now, as former undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman...
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If We Keep Our Cool, We Can Make it to New Negotiations...
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And the rash of articles suggesting that it is are misguided....
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Typically, the visit of a Chinese leader to the United States provides the stage for analysts to reflect on the effectiveness of U.S. efforts to...
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Whatever the differences between European and U.S. policymakers in recent decades, there was little doubt that the two sides were operating on the...