Recent articles & essays 
(published from 2016 to date)
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2018 -- while working at the Germany Embassy in Beijing, internal publication of various reports and analyses on the trilateral political and economic relations among China, Germany and the US as well as on the North Korea problem for the German Foreign Ministry and the office of the German Chancellor (all classified).

Forthcoming -- "GLOBAL POLITICS since 1945," in Klaus Larres and Ruth Wittlinger (eds), Understanding Global Politics: Actors and Themes in International Affairs
(forthcoming, Routledge, 2019), chapter 1.
Forthcoming -- “BRITAIN'S FOREIGN POLICY DILEMMA," in Federiga Bindi (ed.), The Foreign Policy of the European Union, new ed. (forthcoming, Brookings Institution Press, 2018).
Forthcoming -- “’ODD MAN OUT’”: MARGARET THATCHER, the Cold War, European Integration, and German Unification,” in Mark Kramer, Guenter Bischof, Stefan Karner and Peter Ruggenthaler (eds), The Fate of Communist Regimes, 1989-1991, Vol. 2: Western Countries, Neutral European States, and the Collapse of the Soviet Bloc, 1988-1991 (forthcoming, 2018).
Recently published -- "DONALD TRUMP and CHINA," in John Dixon and Mark J. Skidmore (eds), Donald J. Trump's Presidency: International Perspectives (Westphalia Press/Policy Studies Organisation, 2018), pp.245-269.
Recently published -- "CHURCHILL'S 'IRON CURTAIN' SPEECH IN CONTEXT: the attempt to achieve a 'good understanding on all points' with Stalin's Soviet Union,"
in International History Review, Vol.40/1 (2018), pp.80-107
(pre-published online: March 2017).
Recently published -- "ANGELA MERKEL and DONALD TRUMP: Values, Interests, and the Future of the West," German Politics, Vol.27/2 (June, 2018), pp.193-213 (online: March, 2018).

Recently published -- "A Fragile Friendship: German–American Relations in the Twenty-First Century," introduction, German Politics, Vol.27, No.2 (June, 2018),  pp.152-157.
"WHERE NOW FOR GERMANY? With government negotiations collapsing, Germany and Angela Merkel are suddenly no longer looking so stable,"
International Politics & Society (November, 2017).
"ANGELA MERKEL & DONALD TRUMP," 
Deutschland-Studien (Tongji University, Shanghai), No.3 (Nov. 2017) -
IN CHINESE/MANDARIN
"IN MEMORIAM ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI,"
American Diplomacy (June, 2017)
“DONALD TRUMP and AMERICA'S GRAND STRATEGY: U.S. foreign policy toward Europe, Russia and China,” Global Policy Journal (UK), (May 15, 2017).
“REALITY CHECK: Donald Trump shies away from isolationism during his first meeting with the Chinese president,” Journal of International Politics and Society (IPS), (April 11, 2017). 
Also published in German: “Ein Hauch von Realitaet: Trump und Xi Jinping bringen die amerikanisch-chinesischen Beziehungen auf Normalmass,” in Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft (IPG, April, 2017).

Also published in Spanish: “Un hálito de realidad. Trump y Xi Jinping normalizan las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y China" (April, 2017).
“OBERSERVING GERMANY BEFORE THE GENERAL ELECTION,” in The Paper, Shanghai (January 11, 2017), written in Chinese (article based on a lecture at Tongji University in Shanghai).
"HITLER'S LONG SHADOW: Donald Trump and Angela Merkel,” in E-International Relations (February 8, 2017).
“DONALD TRUMP'S FOREIGN POLICY: What do we know, what can we expect?” in: In Depth Newsletter (University of Nicosia, Cyprus), Vol.13/6 (December, 2016).
“TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: AND NOW?” (written in German),
in: WeltTrends: Das Aussenpolitische Journal (No.122, December 2016), pp.4-7.
“CHURCHILL AND EINSTEIN: Overlapping Mindsets,”
Hillsdale College Churchill Project (November 22, 2016).
“’CHINA AND GERMANY: The Honeymoon is Over,”
The Diplomat (November 16, 2016).
“EIGHT YEARS OF US-FOREIGN POLICY UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA – the balance sheet,” in: WeltTrends, 24/121 (November 2016), pp.56-62. 
[written in German; revised, shorter article of the article below]
“OBAMA'S MIXED FOREIGN POLICY BALANCE SHEET,”
in: The National Interest (online) (October 18, 2016), 11pp.
“GERMANY REMAINS A KEY PARTNER FOR CHINA, but its Influence is Waning,”
email interview for the World Politics Review (July 6, 2016).
“GERMANY COURTS CHINA: Leading from the Middle,”
in: Foreign Affairs (online) (May 3, 2016).