Professional Affiliation

Senior Non-Resident Fellow, The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy

 

Expert Bio

Nick Danforth is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy. Previously, he worked as a Senior Visiting Fellow for the German Marshall Fund and as a senior policy analyst for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s national security program. Danforth received his M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies and his B.A. from Yale. He completed his Ph.D. in history at Georgetown University in 2015 and has written widely about Turkey, U.S. foreign policy, and the Middle East for publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, New York Times and Washington Post.

Wilson Center Project

Russian-Turkish Relations Beyond the Myth of Historical Enmity

Project Summary

Russian-Turkish relations have become increasingly central to a range of key issues facing Washington, from the immediate future of Syria to the long-term future of NATO. I am proposing a monograph-length report on the history and potential future of the Russian-Turkish relationship. This project would begin with a brief but original analysis of the dynamics that shaped Russian-Turkish relations over the past two centuries, followed by a more detailed look at their evolution over the past five years. The third section would then look forward to how Russian-Turkish relations might evolve and what Washington can do to influence this evolution.

Major Publications

• "The Outlook for Turkish Democracy: 2023 and Beyond." The Washington Institute. Policy Analysis. March 2020.
• "The End of History and the Last Map." Foreign Policy. 14 February 2020.