Publications
Journalism
My writing appears in The Nation, Foreign Policy, Foreign
Affairs, CNN Opinion, New York Times, Yale 360 Environment, and elsewhere. Here are some recent stories:
My recent articles
The energy transition of Europe’s biggest economy is running up against questions with no easy answers.
ReadArticles in deatil.Thirty years after the revolution, the heirs to the communist regime’s infamous secret police service are the undisputed victors of the country’s botched transformation.
ReadArticles in deatil.The EU is looking to bolster grassroots clean-energy initiatives.
ReadArticles in deatil.Books
I’ve written four books on European topics. My most recent is an up-close look at Berlin’s politically charged subculture. I am working on a new book about renewable energy in Europe — and beyond.
A never-before-told account of the Berlin Wall’s crash narrated through the divided city’s street artists, impresarios, and underground agitators. Hockenos, who lived in Berlin during these momentous times, offers us an original chronicle of the upending of communism and the permissive years of artistic ferment and pirate utopias when protest and idealism, DIY techno clubs and sprawling squats, were the…
A lively biography of Germany’s street-rebel-turned-statesman Joschka Fischer and gripping, from-below history of postwar Germany. The story begins in the ruins of postwar Germany and guides us through the flashpoints of the late sixties and seventies, from the student protests and the terrorism of the Baader-Meinhof group to the evolution of Europe’s premier Green party, and brings us up to…
In all of the attempts to make sense of the wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, one crucial factor has always been overlooked: the decisive roles played by exile groups and émigré communities in fanning the flames of nationalism and territorial ambition. Based in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and South America, these groups helped provide the ideologies,…
Combining first-hand reporting, original documentation, and political analysis, Free to Hate is the first major work in English to investigate the rise of the ultra-nationalist and radical right-wing movements that have swept Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. In this powerful volume, Hockenos provides an account of the emergence and contemporary relevance of far right movements in countries including Germany,…
More publications
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Foreign Policy5 March 2021 Is Germany Making Too Much Renewable Energy? -
Balkan Insight4 February 2021 Long Shadow: How Romania’s Securitate Turned the Revolution into Riches -
International Politics & Society28 January 2021 US exceptionalism is dead, long live US exceptionalism -
Yale Environment 3606 January 2021 As Big Energy Gains, Can Europe’s Community Renewables Compete? -
Yale Environment 36026 May 2020 Will Floating Turbines Usher in a New Wave of Offshore Wind? -
Foreign Policy4 January 2021 No Gas, No War in the Mediterranean -
Foreign Policy5 March 2020 Europe’s Morality Is Dying at the Greek Border -
Energy Transition blog18 August 2020 Lunch with Mr. Energiewende: Rainer Baake is Back in Berlin -
Foreign Policy21 May 2021 Has the Coronavirus Disappeared Climate Politics?