A. Wess Mitchell

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E-mail: wess.mitchell@cepa.org

A. Wess Mitchell is Co-Founder and Director of Research at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), where he leads in the conceptual development of the institute and manages output from CEPA analysts and external scholars. He has played a principal role in the formation of the Center, its core mission and intellectual profile from its inception in 2005.

The author of numerous publications, Mitchell is a regular contributor to leading U.S. and European newspapers and journals, including American Interest, Harper’s Magazine, National Interest, Los Angeles Times, Internationale Politik and Gazeta Wyborcza. He makes frequent appearances in major print and broadcast media outlets, and his articles and interviews have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His first book, The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable, co-authored with John C. Hulsman, was published by Princeton University Press in 2009.

Mitchell’s main research interests include U.S.-Central European security relations, the U.S.-Europe-Russia triangle, NATO and the European Union. In helping form CEPA, he has sought to place the study of East-Central European regional developments within the broader context of U.S. global interests and strategy. He is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of CEPA’s Central Europe Digest – Washington’s only periodical exclusively dedicated to Central Europe – as well as a member of the CEPA Board of Directors and the American Board of Directors of the Berlin-based Atlantic Initiative.

Mitchell holds a Master’s Degree from the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he was selected for the 2004 Hopper Award. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation for a Ph.D. in political science at Freie University in Berlin, Germany.

Publications by A. Wess Mitchell

 

Recent Media Appearances

 

Recent Speaking Engagements

  • "Why NATO Must Bolster Its Eastern Flank," Pittsburgh World Affairs Council, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 7 April 2007
  • Expectations vs. Reality under Obama in U.S.-Russia-Central European Relations," 12 May 2009, NATO Marshal Center Study Group, Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, Washington, DC
  • "US Policy Priorities in Central Europe Under Obama" 10 November 2008, NATO Marshal Center Study Group, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC
  • "Perils of Multinational Statecraft in a Multipolar World?" 5 November 2008, SAIS Global Theory and History, The John Hopkins University, Washington DC

  • “Life After New Europe” presented at “Transatlantic Community and Security Challenges in the 21st Century,” Conference organized by the Czech Foreign Ministry and Masaryk University, Prague, 29 April, 2008

  • "Europe on the World Stage" 8 February 2008, Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • "Europe and America: Managing the 21st Century Agenda" 14 June 2007, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, Germany
  • "Governance in the 21st Century" 26 April 2007, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • "The Danger of Euroscepticism in the New Europe" 2 February 2007, Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC