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Mark Leonard
@markhleonard
Co-Founder & director, @ecfr, bestselling author, latest book THE AGE OF UNPEACE, keynote speaker & weekly podcast host apple.co/2ACObcj
London and Berlin
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Nov 6, 2024
    As Europe wakes up to US election result it is important to avoid 2 big traps: panic & denial. one, states concerned about their security panicking & rushing to DC try to cut special bilateral deals. The other is not to take Trump seriously & not to prepare for a new world. 1/
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Sep 2, 2021
    The book that I have been sweating over for 5 years is finally out today: penguin.co.uk/books/144/1443…
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Dec 5, 2017
    A post-American Germany? Incredible statistic that shows how one of the most Atlanticist states in Europe is moving towards supporting strategic autonomy for the EU
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Mar 3, 2020
    Norbert Roettgen, ECFR’s co-chair, has written a German answer to Macron in the FAZ and Le Monde and its really worth reading. Thread below.1/13
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    Norbert Röttgen
    @n_roettgen
    Mar 2, 2020
    Der 🇫🇷 Präsident Macron hat in den letzten Jahren die wichtigen strategischen Fragen unserer Zeit ins Zentrum der 🇪🇺 Debatte gebracht. #Europa kann nicht so weitermachen wie bisher. Wir brauchen neue Antworten auf neue Fragen. Meine Antwort an #Macron. faz.net/aktuell/politi…
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Jan 19, 2021
    A lot has been written about Trump’s legacy – but in a new @ecfr report launched today by Ivan Krastev & myself we reveal radical lessons Europeans have drawn, what it means for European govts & the #Biden team as they build a new basis for cooperation. buff.ly/3oXcLvs
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Aug 28, 2024
    Thanks for the beautiful messages for my 50th Bday. The world is in crisis but the love & kindness of family & friends means I look to the next 50 with energy, determination & hope. One small request: can you tell me about ONE book I should read to inspire me on that journey?
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Jul 16, 2024
    Lots of confusion and head-scratching in Europe about how to prepare for @realDonaldTrump following his @JDVance1 pick. At ECFR we have been thinking about this for a long time. Thread 👇 1/8
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Nov 7, 2023
    Some Professional News: I am on a mini-sabbatical in Washington DC in Nov&Dec 2023. I have been appointed as the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the U.S. Library of Congress. Writing a book on global disorder!
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    Kluge Center Welcomes New Chairs for Fall 2023 | Insights
    Jacob Berkowitz The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Jacob Berkowitz as Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology,...
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Jun 28, 2022
    Many congratulations to 🇫🇮 and 🇸🇪 @AnnLinde @Haavisto @carlbildt @alexstubb
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    Alexander Stubb
    @alexstubb
    Jun 28, 2022
    Things have a tendency to get sorted. Key is to stay cool, calm and collected. Onwards. ⁦@NATO⁩ Live news updates: Turkey drops veto on Finland and Sweden Nato membership via @FT on.ft.com/3u9QPC6
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Mar 26, 2024
    We had a fascinating dinner to launch the @ecfr Washington office. A big thanks to @JakeSullivan46 for joining us and to @UrbanAhlin for hosting us at the Fabulous Swedish Embassy.
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Aug 30, 2024
    Very important piece by my colleague @jana_puglierin and @ClaudMajor on how west is sleepwalking into Ukraine defeat after 🇺🇸 election. They lay out strategy to reframe security debate to prevent Kyiv from being forced to settle on Russian terms.
    Ukrainian servicemen rest at their positions after a fight, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near the front line city of Bakhmut, in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 11, 2023.
    The West’s Responsibility for Ukraine’s Future
    From ip-quarterly.com
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Oct 9, 2023
    Devastating critique of EU. You can add our increasing struggles to set a path on climate, China & regulations. Striking to see countries like Türkiye desperate to go to sco & Brics but sitting out the EPC meeting. We need some serious rethinking about EU foreign policy
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    Mujtaba Rahman
    @Mij_Europe
    Oct 9, 2023
    Events in Israel make clear the EU's impotence & inability to shape world around it. Irrelevant in Mid-East. Can't backfill US mil support if Ukr funding dries up. Can't sort Nagorno-Karabakh. Losing the Global South Didn't @vonderleyen want to run a Geopolitical @EU_Commission?
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Jul 25, 2018
    Is Donald Trump leading a double life? For my ⁦@FT⁩ piece I talked to China’s foreign policy elite & where Europeans only see chaos and unpredictability in trump, Beijing sees grand strategy and shrewd tactics. Reveals as much about China as USA!
    The Chinese are wary of Donald Trump’s creative destruction
    From ft.com
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    Mark Leonard
    @markhleonard
    Mar 2, 2022
    Impressive speech by @ABaerbock st UN who is rapidly establishing herself as one of the most impressive European foreign ministers - showing moral authority, action and strength. This really is s turning point for German foreign policy
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    Ashish Pradhan
    @AshishSPradhan
    Mar 1, 2022
    .@GermanyUN's Foreign Minister @ABaerbock just gave one of the best speeches at the UN General Assembly Emergency Special Session on #Ukraine

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