About the Book

In Fractured Continent, Mr. Drozdiak offers an urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world.

By interviewing key European leaders from Brussels to Berlin, Rome to Riga, Mr. Drozdiak captures the crises, the proposed solutions, and considers where Europe and America go from here.

The result is a timely, character- and narrative-driven book about this tumultuous phase of contemporary European history.

About the Author

William M. Drozdiak is senior advisor for Europe and Eurasia with McLarty Associates. He also is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, affiliated with its Center on the United States and Europe.

From 2005 to 2015, Mr. Drozdiak served as president of the American Council on Germany. Previously, he was founding Executive Director of the Transatlantic Center in Brussels, created by the German Marshall Fund. Mr. Drozdiak worked for two decades as a senior editor and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post. For his coverage of NATO’s air war in Kosovo, he was selected as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for international affairs in 1999. Earlier, he was State Department Correspondent for Time magazine and an international affairs writer at its New York headquarters.

Before becoming a journalist, Mr. Drozdiak played professional basketball in the US and Europe. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1971 and won a postgraduate fellowship as an NCAA Scholar-Athlete. He earned a master’s degree in economics at the College of Europe in Bruges and did postgraduate studies at the Institute of European Studies at the University of Brussels.