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Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard

Writing for PS since 2004
103 commentaries
6 videos & podcasts

Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict (Bantam Press, 2021).

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  1. Living in Trump’s World
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    Living in Trump’s World

    Nov 8, 2024 Mark Leonard explains what European leaders must do to prepare for the radical changes promised by the US president-elect.

  2. The US Election Will Overturn Europe’s Strategic Status Quo
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    The US Election Will Overturn Europe’s Strategic Status Quo

    Sep 6, 2024 Mark Leonard worries that Europeans are unprepared for whoever will succeed US President Joe Biden.

  3. Harris Must Challenge Trump’s Overtures to American Workers
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    Harris Must Challenge Trump’s Overtures to American Workers

    Jul 30, 2024 Mark Leonard urges Democrats to devote more effort to countering the Republican Party’s efforts to reinvent its class base.

  4. Europe’s Coming Paralysis
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    Europe’s Coming Paralysis

    Jun 26, 2024 Mark Leonard thinks recent developments in France and Germany will leave the European Union rudderless.

  5. What the Weimar Triangle Could Do for Europe
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    What the Weimar Triangle Could Do for Europe

    Jun 4, 2024 Mark Leonard thinks a Franco-German-Polish leadership trifecta could breathe new life into the European Union.

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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway

    For decades, an efficiency-centered “economic style” has dominated public policy, overriding the concerns for fairness that animated the New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. Now, Americans must brace for economic governance that delivers neither efficiency nor fairness, only chaos.

    highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.
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    Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?

    While some observers doubt that US President-elect Donald Trump poses a grave threat to US democracy, others are bracing themselves for the destruction of the country’s constitutional order. With Trump’s inauguration just around the corner, we asked PS commentators how vulnerable US institutions really are.

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    The Climate Policy Pendulum

    Gernot Wagner notes that green technologies retain their many advantages, regardless of national political developments.
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    Could High-Skill Immigration Increase Under Trump?

    Michael R. Strain argues that the recent kerfuffle over foreign workers underscores the president-elect’s pragmatic instincts.
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    What Happened to International Law?

    Eric Posner sees the web of treaties, conventions, and institutions as another victim of the anti-globalization backlash.
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    Europe’s Year of Fundamental Choices

    Ana Palacio considers the complex array of internal and external challenges the European Union must confront in 2025.
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    Texas’s Online Age-Verification Law Must Be Overturned

    Lilian Coral & Prem Trivedi urge the US Supreme Court to protect internet users from legislation posing new privacy and security risks.
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    Revealing an Invisible Health Threat

    Angela Bandemehr & Albert Park tout deployment of hand-held X-ray devices to prevent lead poisoning in low- and middle-income countries.

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