1. Yascha Benjamin Mounk was born on 10 June 1982 and is a German-American political scientist and author.
11 Facts About Yascha Mounk
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Yascha Mounk is Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC In July 2020, he founded Persuasion, an online magazine devoted to defending the values of free societies.
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Yascha Mounk's mother was Jewish and a socialist, and left Poland in 1969 after the purge of Jews from positions in the Communist apparatus.
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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 read history at Trinity College, Cambridge, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2003.
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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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In September 2024, Yascha Mounk took up a role as visiting professor at Sciences-Po Paris.
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Yascha Mounk joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany as a teenager.
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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.