Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard (b. 1974) is a British foreign policy thinker and Executive Director of the first pan-European think-tank, the European Council on Foreign Relations. His articles appear in several publications – New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, among many others. He is co-author, along with Ivan Krastev, of The Spectre of a Multipolar Europe, published by the ECFR.
The security summit at Deauville, France, saw the first inklings of a new European geopolitical order. Instead of an EU buttressed by a NATO expanding eastwards comes a "trilateral" Europe, sustaining Turkey's European ambitions and keeping Russia on board.