Nicolas Bouchet

Senior Visiting Fellow
Berlin Office
European Resilience
Visiting Fellow,
GMF Expert
My Areas of Expertise:
Democratic Decline Foreign Policy
Central and Eastern Europe

Nicolas Bouchet is a senior visiting fellow with GMF’s European Resilience program, focusing on efforts to support democracy and civil society, including most recently democratic exiles. He also works closely with GMFs’ ReThink.CEE Fellows. He conducts research on EU and US democracy promotion, with a particular focus on Russia and Eurasia (especially the countries of the EU’s Eastern Partnership). His research interests also include US foreign policy, democratization, and civil society. He has authored numerous policy papers, reports, and articles on these topics.

In 2014–2016, he was a TAPIR research fellow with GMF, based in the Berlin and Washington offices. He holds a PhD in international relations from the University of London and a Master’s degree in US government and politics from the University of Essex. He is the author of Democracy Promotion as U.S. Foreign Policy: Bill Clinton and Democratic Enlargement (Routledge, 2015) as well as the co-editor of US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama (Routledge, 2013).

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