A. Wess Mitchell

Direct Dial : 202-551-9206
E-mail: wess.mitchell@cepa.org
A. Wess Mitchell is Co-Founder and Director of Research at CEPA, where he manages the Center’s analytical output and leads in the conceptual development of the institute.
The author of numerous publications, Mitchell is a frequent contributor to leading U.S. and European newspapers and journals, including The National Interest, Harper’s Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Times, Internationale Politik, and Gazeta Wyborcza. His articles and interviews have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including Polish, German, Czech, Russian, Hungarian and Romanian.
Mitchell’s interests include U.S.-Central European security relations, NATO and the European Union in U.S. foreign policy. He is a regular speaker at transatlantic policy conferences, and has studied, lived and traveled extensively in Europe. At CEPA, he is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of Central Europe Digest – Washington’s only periodical exclusively dedicated to Central Europe. He is also a member of the CEPA Board of Directors, as well as the American Board of Directors of the Berlin-based Atlantic Initiative.
Prior to helping form CEPA, Mitchell was an analyst at the National Center for Policy Analysis and worked in the office of Texas Congressman Larry Combest. He holds an undergraduate degree in History (Political Science/German); a Master’s Degree in German and European Studies (International Relations/Comparative Politics) from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service; and a Graduate Certificate from the American Consortium on European Union Studies. At Georgetown, Mitchell studied under the late Greg Flynn and was selected for the Presidential Management Fellowship and 2004 Hopper Award. His languages include German and Dutch, and he is currently studying Czech.
Publications by A. Wess Mitchell
- The Mice that Roared: How Small Powers are Responding to, and Shaping, the Transition to Multipolarity (Also available in German)
- Radar shield quest
- Rice’s desperate throw at the basket (in Czech), Hospidarsky Noviny, July 7, 2008.
- Why Missile Defense is Here to Stay
- 'The Godfather' doctrine
- NATO's Unhappy Warriors (Also available in Russian)
- Pax Corleone (The National Interest, March-April, 2008 - co-authored with John Hulsman)
- Radar Roulette (Also available in Czech)
- The EU's Viennese Mirror: Lessons to be learned from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire (The Budapest Times, Feb 18-24, 2008, p.7). (Also available via Project Syndicate in Czech, Hungarian, German and Russian).
- Missile Defense: Poland has Less Room to Manuever
- The Polish lesson: America must give something in return for support (Also available in Russian)
- Kaiser, König, Komission (In German)
- European Integration, Version 1.0
- The Case for Polish-German Rapprochement
- Germany's Awakening
- Merkel's Momentum: Grading the German EU Presidency
- America's Allied Love Triangle
- Who's Our Next Best Friend
- Talking to Prague about Radar
- Missile Defense: Washington's Deal with Prague
- Czechs and Balances (Also available in Czech)
- No Ally Left Behind
- Mending Fences: Repairing U.S.-Central European Relations after Iraq
- Tipping the Scales: Why Central Europe Matters to the United States
- Does Europe Need the Polish Plumber? (Also available in Czech, Slovak)
- On the Road to Democracy (managing editor)
- The Promises and Perils of EU Membership
(Older publications available on request)
Recent Media Appearances
- Cited in Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish), 19 July 2008
- Interview with Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish), 10 July 2008
- Cited by Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish), 8 July 2008
- Cited by Rzeczpospolita (in Polish), 5 July 2008
- Cited by Rzeczpospolita (in Polish), 5 July 2008
- Interview with BBC (audio), 3 July 2008
- Cited by Rzeczpospolita (in Polish), 3 July 2008
- Cited by Polish News Agency (in Polish), 27 June 2008
- Interview with Newsweek Polska, "Anna Fotyga pursues the President's clever mission," (in Polish), June 27, 2008.
- Interview with Gazeta Wyborcza, "Only Obama or McCain Can Rebuild Relations with Europe" (in Polish), June 11, 2008.
- Cited in Rzeczpospolita article, "Polish army under magnifying glass" (in Polish, 14 May 2008.
- Cited in Polish paper Rzeczpospolita (in Polish) regarding missile defense 5 May 2008
- Cited in Rzeczpospolita article, "Poland: It must be somewhere in Europe" (in Polish), 11 April 2008
- Cited in CS Monitor on NATO summit, 2 April 2008
- Cited in Gazeta Wyborcza, Rosja gra Ukrainą (“Russia plays Ukraine”) 29 March 2008
- Interview with Nowy Dziennik, Spotkanie w polowie drogi (“Meeting in the Middle”) 16 March 2008
- Wess Mitchell interviewed by Polish paper Rzeczpospolita (in Polish) 7 March 2008
- Cited in Czech news article "Radar without rockets?" (in Czech) 6 March 2008
- Interview with Czech paper Hospodarske Noviny (in Czech) 27 February 2008
- Cited in Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish) 22 February 2008
- Interview with Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish) 25 January 2008
- Interview with Christian Science Monitor 18 January 2008
- Interview with German Council on Foreign Relations 15 June 2007
- Interview with Polish Newsweek 10 June 2007
Recent Speaking Engagements
-
“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, April 29, 2008
- "Europe on the World Stage" 8 February 2008, 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
- "Euroscepticism in the New Europe" 2 February 2007, Georgetown University, Washington DC