10 Facts About Yascha Mounk

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Yascha Benjamin Mounk was born on 10 June 1982 and is a German-born American political scientist.

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Yascha Mounk's mother was Jewish and a socialist, and was forced to leave Poland in 1969 due to anti-Semitism.

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Yascha Mounk wrote that much of his mother's side of the family was killed in the Holocaust.

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Yascha Mounk has said he felt like a stranger in Germany, and though German is his native language, he never felt accepted as a "true German" by his peers.

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Yascha Mounk then received a PhD from Harvard University in the United States, with the dissertation The Age of Responsibility: On the Role of Choice, Luck, and Personal Responsibility in Contemporary Politics and Philosophy.

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Yascha Mounk remained in the US as a lecturer on government, and was named a senior fellow in the Political Reform Program at the think tank New America.

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Yascha Mounk was executive director of the Renewing the Centre team at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

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Yascha Mounk joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany as a teenager.

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Yascha Mounk cited the lack of helpfulness of German institutions to refugees, the passive attitude of SPD leaders and other parts of the party during the Crimea crisis in 2014, and the SPD's policy on Greece, which he called a "betrayal of the social democratic dream of a united Europe".

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Yascha Mounk initially considered it a relic of the past that must be overcome, but he now advocates an "inclusive nationalism" to head off the threat of aggressive nationalism.