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Paul Hockenos

Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based writer who has written about Germany and Central Europe since 1989. His latest book is Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin. His writing has also appeared in Foreign AffairsThe New York Times, and The Nation.

Articles

Polish director Agnieszka Holland's new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.

Paul Hockenos

Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.

Paul Hockenos
Germany's low death rate and quick payout of relief to workers makes a case for social democracy as preparedness.
Paul Hockenos

Thirty years after the Wall fell, the story of Berlin's anarchist utopia.

Paul Hockenos

Could Germany's left-wing parties unseat Angela Merkel in Sunday's election? Only if they bury the hatchet.

Paul Hockenos

Can Angela Merkel circumvent Trump to build a multipolar alliance on climate change?

Paul Hockenos

Refugee scholars in Europe face tremendous obstacles. Now some universities are trying to change that.

Paul Hockenos

In the face of Putin's rejection of democracy, Europe’s democrats must underscore the importance of the EU’s norms: social justice, sustainability, diplomacy, diversity, and freedom of movement.

Paul Hockenos

Srđan Dragojević’s The Parade

Paul Hockenos

Hungary’s ascendant right wing.

Paul Hockenos

Coping with post–Cold War Romania.

Paul Hockenos
Romanticizing Germany's Urban Guerillas.
Paul Hockenos

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