Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
In Brexit pre-negotiations, both UK and EU officials have ignored the far-reaching implications of Donald Trump’s election as US president – namely, the decline of the liberal world order. Unless they… read more
Europeans will not only have to get used to Donald Trump; they will have to look at the world through different eyes. There are four reasons to believe that Trump’s America will be the single biggest … read more
British Prime Minister Theresa May, who once warned her fellow Conservatives of the perils of being known as the “nasty party,” is in danger of turning the UK into the nasty country. Britain's cosmopo… read more
When the Cold War ended, the EU and NATO were at the center of an expanding unipolar order that, it was assumed, would establish the conditions for European security. In fact, that was far from guaran… read more
The most frightening periods in history have often been interregnums – moments between the death of one king and the rise of the next. The global order is in such a state now, and the EU’s goal, achie… read more
Boris Johnson, the shape-shifting politician who is now Britain’s foreign secretary, embodies many of the contradictions of our age. He did more than anyone to bury the UK’s European future, but his u… read more
The shock of the British vote to leave the EU has yet to sink in. Yet European leaders must steel themselves for what is to come, as Brexit may well be the initial tremor that triggers a tsunami of re… read more
Much of modern geopolitics seems to be following the plot from Game of Thrones, with many countries under so much political and economic stress that their only hope is that their rivals collapse befor… read more
Though much has been written about how a world on the move is changing national politics, there has been little consideration of its geopolitical effects. But the mass movement of people is already en… read more
Some 240 million people today are living outside their country of birth – enough to form the world’s fifth most populous country. And yet, while few topics are more politically salient, international … read more
