Publications
Journalism
My writing appears in The Nation, Foreign Policy, Foreign
Affairs, CNN Opinion, New York Times, Yale Environment 360, and elsewhere. Here are some recent stories:
My recent articles
Interview with Stefan M. Büttner of the Stuttgart Institute for Energy Efficiency in Production
ReadArticles in deatil.Europe’s largest economy is trying to figure out just how badly it would fare without Russian gas.
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 was in 1993 the first major work in English to investigate the rise of the ultra-nationalist and radical right-wing movements that 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…
More publications
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CNN Opinion23 February 2022 Good riddance Nord Stream 2. Now Europe has a golden opportunity -
CNN Opinion27 February 2022 Bury it? Shoot it into space? Why scientists still can’t find a place for nuclear waste -
The Nation9 February 2022 Don’t Sabotage the Climate Movement by Turning to Violence -
Energy Transition9 January 2022 How a Circular Economy Can Help Hit Climate Targets -
Energy Transition16 January 2022 Russia’s Climate New Strategy is All About Russia, not Climate Protection -
Energy Transition25 January 2022 Get Eastern Europe In On the Green Deal -
The Anthropocene27 January 2022 The case for co-locating offshore wind parks and nature reserves -
Foreign Policy6 January 2022 The Scandalous History of America’s Newest Media Baron -
Energy Transition9 December 2021 Scotland’s Independence Bid Can Be Green -
Foreign Policy2 December 2021 Hungary’s Strongman Is Running Scared -
Energy Transition blog28 October 2021 Beyond Copper: How Virtual Power Plants Make the Smart Grid Smarter -
Boston Review8 October 2021 The Circular Economy -
Foreign Policy Magazine15 October 2021 There’s a Merkel-Sized Hole in European Conservatism -
Energy Transition blog16 September 2021 Angry Weather: Attribution Bolsters Climate Science -
Yale 360 Environment30 September 2021 As the Climate Bakes, Turkey Faces a Future Without Water -
The Nation magazine14 June 2021 We Don’t Need Science Fiction to Avert Climate Catastrophe -
Yale Environment 36010 June 2021 Europe’s Drive to Slash Plastic Waste Moves Into High Gear -
Clean Energy Wire26 May 2021 Waste to Energy – Controversial power generation by incineration -
Energy Transition21 May 2021 Poland’s Białowieża forest: an endangered carbon sink and biodiversity reserve -
Energy Transition blog6 May 2021 Germany’s High-Risk Clean-Energy Balancing Act -
Energy Transition Blog1 May 2021 World’s Smart Cities Show How They Do it Themselves -
Foreign Policy5 March 2021 Is Germany Making Too Much Renewable Energy? -
Foreign Policy5 March 2020 Europe’s Morality Is Dying at the Greek Border -
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 -
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?