A. Wess Mitchell
The Godfather Doctrine
A Foreign Policy Parable
co-authored with John Hulsman
Princeton University Press, future
A. Wess Mitchell is Co-Founder and Director of Research at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), where he leads in the conceptual development of the institute and manages output from CEPA analysts and external scholars. He has played a principal role in the formation of the Center, its core mission and intellectual profile from its inception in 2005.
The author of numerous publications, Mitchell is a regular contributor to leading U.S. and European newspapers and journals, including American Interest, Harper's Magazine, National Interest, Los Angeles Times, Internationale Politik and Gazeta Wyborcza. He makes frequent appearances in major print and broadcast media outlets, and his articles and interviews have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His first book, The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable, co-authored with John C. Hulsman, was published by Princeton University Press in 2009.
Mitchell's main research interests include U.S.-Central European security relations, the U.S.-Europe-Russia triangle, NATO and the European Union. In helping form CEPA, he has sought to place the study of East-Central European regional developments within the broader context of U.S. global interests and strategy. He is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of CEPA's Central Europe Digest -- Washington's only periodical exclusively dedicated to Central Europe -- as well as a member of the CEPA Board of Directors and the American Board of Directors of the Berlin-based Atlantic Initiative.
Mitchell holds a Master's Degree from the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he was selected for the 2004 Hopper Award. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation for a Ph.D. in political science at Freie University in Berlin, Germany.
