Andrei S. Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Col­le­giate Pro­fes­sor of Com­par­a­tive Pol­i­tics and Ger­man Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan. His books, arti­cles and reviews on var­i­ous aspects of Ger­man and Euro­pean pol­i­tics have appeared in 15 lan­guages. Markovits’s lat­est work is a mem­oir enti­tled The Pass­port as Home: Com­fort in Root­less­ness pub­lished by the Cen­tral Euro­pean Uni­ver­si­ty Press in 2021.