I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. I am also an associate fellow at the Institute for German Studies at Birmingham University.
I was previously a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, and the research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Before that I was a full-time journalist and still write regularly for Prospect, The Guardian, the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement. I have also written for various other newspapers and magazines including The Observer, Financial Times, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit and Le Monde.
I also write for foreign-policy journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Internationale Politik, Berlin Policy Journal and The Washington Quarterly.
My first book, Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 generation and the Holocaust, was published in 2009. My second book, The Paradox of German Power was published in 2014.
Books in order of publication:
Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 generation and the Holocaust – 2009
The Paradox of German Power – 2014
Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project – 2023
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