Garvan Walshe

Garvan Walshe founded Article 7. He’s an entrepreneur and political strategist with 15 years’ experience in European politics. He writes regularly for Foreign Policy and has been published in The Economist, Die Welt and CNN. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and has been a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

Garvan Walshe is a pro-democracy political strategist. Since 2018 he has

Co-Founded Unhack Democracy, an election integrity watchdog focused on Central and Eastern Europe.

Run the Elections Analysis Unit at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which monitored and exposed disinformation and the strategies employed by national populists in the 2019 European Elections.

Worked with the ARENA Centre (originally at the London School of Economics, now at John’s Hopkins AGORA) on media pluralism.

Dr Walshe writes regularly for Foreign Policy and has been published in The Economist, Die Welt and CNN. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and has been a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He was previously national and international security policy adviser to the British Conservative Party.

Recent Publications

Political Monopoly: How Europe’s New Authoritarians Stifle Democracy and Get Away With It. Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2020

Europe’s new autocrats aren’t conventional authoritarians. They allow opposition to exist but tilt the playing field to keep it away from power. They act as “political monopolists” to stifle political competition and keep themselves in power. Download Report

Germany must position itself clearly against Europe’s autocrats
With Daniel Hegedus. Die Welt, 2020. How Germany can use its EU presidency to support the rule of law in the EU. Read.

Making a More European Britain: The Political, Economic and Societal Impacts of Brexit
With Tim Oliver, Wilfred Martens Centre for European Studies, 2020
Though Brexit means Britain is leaving the EU, it has actually made Britain’s politics more European. Download

Putting Lipstick on a Bigotry. Review of One Nation Conservatism, by Nick Timothy (Polity Press, 2020) Foreign Policy, 2020
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The Long Road To Brexit. Review of How to Stop Brexit, By Nick Clegg, The Road To Somewhere , by David Goodhart, and Society of Fear, by Heinz Bude. Foreign Policy, 2018
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