PAUL HOCKENOS
Senior Fellow 

Paul Hockenos is a New York- and Berlin-based author and political analyst who has written about European affairs since 1989. His articles and commentaries have appeared in World Policy Journal, New Statesman, Boston Review, Internationale Politik, The Nation, Die Tageszeitung, In These Times, Christian Science Monitor, as well as many other periodicals in Europe and North America.

As a journalist, Hockenos covered the democratic revolutions of 1989-90 from Central Europe and authored the first book about extreme nationalist and far-right movements in the region. Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (Routledge, 1993) examines the emergence of extremist political parties and figures after the breakup of the Eastern bloc in East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

In the Balkans, Hockenos wrote about all of the wars of the 1990s and in 1997-99 worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina on media issues. His Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkans Wars (Cornell University Press, 2003) was the first study to examine the role that diasporas played in the conflicts of the 1990s. According to former UN Special Envoy to the Balkans and High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Carl Bildt, "There is simply no way to understand how the different wars in the Balkans erupted during the 1990s without knowing the role played by the different exile and diaspora communities. Paul Hockenos has done truly pioneering work in describing this crucial aspect of the Balkans issues. No one has done it before, and no one is likely to do it better in the future."

As an analyst and board member of the think tank European Stability Initiative (ESI), Hockenos worked in the Lessons Learned and Analysis section of the UN Mission in Kosovo in 2003-04. He led ESI's migration and development in rural Kosovo project and also the East West Institute's crossborder movement and migration project in the Ohrid-Prespa Triangle in 2005. He was recently engaged with the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management on a migration and development in South Eastern Europe study (forthcoming) conducted for the Austrian Development Bank. He is part of the Berlin Free University's Arbeitsgruppe Migration, conducted by the Institute for Eastern European Studies. Hockenos has presented his research and findings on migration-development, and globalization and conflict at workshops and conferences in the US and across Europe.

Most recently, Hockenos authored the book,Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany (Oxford University Press, 2008). He has been a visiting fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the European Journalism College at the Free University Berlin. He has been awarded prize journalism fellowships from the German Marshall Fund and financing from the Rockefeller Foundation. In addition to establishing the WPI’s new Migration and Development Program focusing on the Western Balkans, he is an editor at Internationale Politik-Global Edition, Germany's foremost foreign affairs magazine.

Education

Skidmore College, BA in Political Economy

Free University Berlin, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, graduate studies

University of Sussex, MA in Social and Political Thought

MAJOR STUDIES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND BOOKS

Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany, (Oxford University Press: New York, 2008).

“Kosovo's Lifeline: Migration and Development in Rural Kosovo,” European Stability Initiative report, 2006.

“Cross Border Movement and Migration in the Ohrid/Prespa Triangle,” East-West Institute report, 2007.

Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars, (Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 2003).

“Europe’s Nightmare: Lessons in the Decade of Milosevic,” in Appeal to Reason: The First 25 Years of In These Times, Ed. Craig Aaron (Seven Stories Press: Chicago, 2002), pp. 234-245.

Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe,(Routledge: New York) 1993, 1994.

Co-author. The Media Experts Commission Final Report (OSCE Mission to Bosnia Herzegovina: Sarajevo, 1998).

“Uncivil Society: The Return of the European Right,” in Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order, Ed. Phyllis Bennis (Olive Branch Press: New York, 1993),  pp.197-205

 SELECTED ARTICLES

PAUL HOCKENOS interviewed Dmitri Trenin on modern day Russia and its political state, “The New U.S.-Russian Détente?,” Foreign Policy in Focus, June 4, 2009.

"Germany's Turkish Obama." The Nation, February 2, 2009.

"U.S. & Europe: Partnership of Equals" World Policy Journal, Winter 2008/09, Vol. 25, No. 4: 115–126.

"The 'Kosovo Dilemma' Goes Astray." In These Times, June 25, 2008.

"Behind Serb Lines." New Statesman, June 2, 1995. Republished July 31, 2008.

"Left Behind." Boston Review, November/December 2007.

LECTURES AND APPEARANCES

Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Avril Harriman School of International Relations, Columbia University; Osteuropa Institut, Free University Berlin; Southeastern European University, Tetevo; Central European University, Budapest; Viadrina University, Frankfurt am Oder; Skidmore College; Institute for Global Governance, London School of Economics; St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University; EU Pillar UNMIK; New York University; Northwestern University; and elsewhere.

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