<span class="vcard">Dominik Tolksdorf</span>

Dominik Tolksdorf

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Dr. Dominik Tolksdorf (@DTolksdorf) is director of the Foreign Affairs & Security Policy program at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Washington, DC, focusing in his projects on transatlantic relations and cooperation, Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Balkans, democracy and human rights. Previously, Dominik has worked for research institutions and universities in Munich and Brussels, and in 2012-2014, he was a Transatlantic Post-Doctoral Fellow at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Institut Français des Relations Internationals, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. His research has resulted in a number of journal articles, commissioned studies, op-eds, and a book on the EU’s support for reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Nomos, 2012).

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(L-R) Germany's Social Democratic SPD outgoing party co-leader Norbert Walter-Borjans, designated German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, parliamentary group leader of Germany's social democratic SPD party Rolf Muetzenich, Germany's Social Democratic SPD party co-leader Saskia Esken, co-leader of Germany's The Greens (Die Gruenen) party and designated Minister for Economy and Climate Robert Habeck, Germany's Free Democratic Party (FDP) leader and designated Finance Minister Christian Lindner, parliamentary group co-leader of Germany's The Greens (Die Gruenen) party Katrin Goering-Eckardt (hidden), Federal Party Secretary of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and designated Transport Minister Volker Wissing, co-leader of Germany's The Greens (Die Gruenen) party and designated Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and parliamentary group co-leader of Germany's The Greens (Die Gruenen) party Anton Hofreiter pose on stage after a signing ceremony in Berlin on December 7, 2021, where leading members of Germany's social democratic SPD party, the Greens and the free democratic FDP party sealed their coalition deal to form a new government. Olaf Scholz led his Social Democrats to victory against Angela Merkel's conservative CDU-CSU bloc in an landmark election in September 2021, as the veteran chancellor prepared to leave politics after four consecutive terms in office. (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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