Professional Affiliation

Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Der Tagesspiegel

Expert Bio

Dr. Christoph von Marschall is Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of „Der Tagesspiegel”, the leading daily in Berlin, a frequent guest on TV shows and an expert for Central Eastern Europe, the US, Transatlantic Relations and Great Power Competition. He studied East European History and Political Science in Freiburg, Mainz and Cracow (Poland) concluding with a PhD on Polish history. 1989 he joined „Süddeutsche Zeitung” and covered the regime changes in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Since 1991 he works for „Der Tagesspiegel”. He was Editorial Page Editor (1995-2005), Washington Bureau Chief (2005-2013) and a member of the White House Press Corps. 2017/18 he was the inaugural Helmut Schmidt Fellow of the Zeit Foundation and the German Marshall Fund of the US, based in Washington DC. He had again access to the White House now under President Donald Trump and wrote a book about the future of Germanys Foreign Policy.

Expertise

• Cold War
• Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
• Economics and Globalization
• Global Governance
• History
• Migration
• Security and Defense

Wilson Center Project

“Rethinking the Idea of the ‘West’: Why its Future Could Lie in the (Far) East.”

Project Summary

The goal of the project proposal is to rethink the idea of the „West”. For decades, it has meant the transatlantic alliance of democracies in Europe and North America. But the future of the „West” lies in the (Far) East. Americans and Europeans should extend their definition of the „West“ beyond the transatlantic alliance of democracies in Europe and North America to the democracies in Asia. If the added potential of the democracies in these three world regions could be harnessed for a common global policy, this „new West“ could regain a good part of the dominance in international politics that the „old West“ has lost in recent decades. And use this influence to assert the Western value system more often with success. Is this approach feasible? And what are the advantages and disadvantages?

Major Publications

• Wir verstehen die Welt nicht mehr. Deutschlands Entfremdung von seinen Freunden”, Herder Verlag 2018 („We don’t understand the world anymore. Germany’s estrangement from its friends”).
• Was ist mit den Amis los? Herder Verlag 2012 ("What's the matter with the Americans?")
• Barack Obama. Der schwarze Kennedy, Orell Füssli Verlag 2007 ("Barack Obama. The black Kennedy"