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Julia Friedrich
@juliafriedrich.bsky.social
Research Fellow @GPPi. Ex-EUAM Ukraine. Peace & security in Russia & Ukraine. Berlin-based.
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Feminist foreign policies talk equality, but local feminist peacebuilders still face donor scepticism, unstable funding & political pushback.

Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve.

📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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July 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Can a ceasefire monitoring mission help Ukraine? 🇺🇦🕊️

@juliafriedrich.bsky.social & Lukasz Mickiewicz argue it’s a possible, though flawed, option. Lessons from the OSCE’s SMM (2014-22) show it's no silver bullet — real deterrence still matters: gppi.net/2025/04/16/p...
Presence without Power
Discussions around a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine have recently gained traction. How can we ensure that such a ceasefire will be respected and enforced? In this policy brief, Julia Friedrich a...
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April 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The US & #Russia are set to continue talks today in Riyadh. What's the role of third-party mediators like #SaudiArabia in the war against #Ukraine? I had an in-depth look at past & future engagement of Brazil, China, India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa & Turkey. Key findings👇 gppi.net/2025/03/19/o...
Outcome Neutral?
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March 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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🎧 Tune in tonight (19:15–20:00 CET) to hear GPPi's @juliafriedrich.bsky.social on Deutschlandfunk discussing the Trump/Putin call and what the EU’s defense spending plans could mean for Germany’s military and its role in Europe.

👉 Listen live: www.deutschlandfunk.de/zur-diskussi...
Gesprächssendung - Zur Diskussion
In der Sendung "Zur Diskussion" kommen alle Themen zur Sprache, die gesellschaftlich relevant sind und die Öffentlichkeit bewegen. Die Sendung lebt vom Widerstreit der Meinungen, von Erläuterung und E...
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March 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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❓How/why have third-party actors engaged in mediation efforts in the Russia-Ukraine war?
❓Realistically, what role can they play in the peace process?

Read @juliafriedrich.bsky.social's 5️⃣ recommendations for effective engagement with third-party actors on Ukraine & beyond: gppi.net/2025/03/19/o...
Outcome Neutral?
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March 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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GPPi's @juliafriedrich.bsky.social was on SWR Aktuell Radio this morning, offering her insights on what yesterday's talks in Saudi Arabia mean for the US and Ukraine and how Russia might react to the proposal for a ceasefire.

🎧 Listen below (in German)
March 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Was die gestrigen Gespräche in Saudi-Arabien für #US und #Ukraine bedeuten & wie #Russland auf den Vorschlag zu einer #Waffenruhe reagieren könnte - darüber habe ich heute morgen mit SWR-Aktuell gesprochen 👇

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Nach dem Trump-Selenskyj-Streit: Alles wieder gut zwischen USA und Ukraine?
Die USA und die Ukraine haben in Dschidda offenbar wieder zueinander gefunden. Ob das das Ergebnis von guten Gesprächen oder US-Erpressung ist, ordnet Julia Friedrich vom Global Public Policy Institut...
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March 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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There is a "gap between what the Ukrainians need and what the Europeans can supply," @juliafriedrich.bsky.social told RFE/RL. "Moscow has put everything into this war, so it's going to take a lot more than a friendly phone call and meeting to make Russia stop."👇 www.rferl.org/a/putin-trum...
Europe Pushes For Lasting Peace, But Can Russia's Battlefield Momentum Be Halted?
Despite the recent flurry of diplomatic activity, analysts say that the prospects of a cease-fire agreement, let alone a peace deal, are still hard to reach and that the three-year war looks set to ke...
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March 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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🌍 What is Germany's role in a changing global order?
 
🤝 We partnered with @gmfus.bsky.social for the working group "Zeitenwende - Navigating Change in a Fractured World".
 
Check out the GMF report, with a foreword by @muelherr.bsky.social & @sdavidwilp.bsky.social!👇
Germany's Role in a Changing Global Order
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February 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The #MSC has shown just how much Germany needs to step up quickly to find its role in a changing global order, especially on the war against #Ukraine.

Thanks @gmfus.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to a collection of priorities for the next German government 👇
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Germany's Role in a Changing Global Order
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February 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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1/ Europe at Munich Security Conference looked like deer in Trump administration's headlights. How have we got this far without a concrete European plan for Ukraine to put on table? How is there *still* no proper consensus among major EU governments (+UK) on how far Europe is willing to step up?
February 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"Scholz' Haus sehe keinen eiligen Handlungsbedarf"
Laut @spiegel.de sperrt der Kanzler weiteres Geld für Kyiv & damit zusätzlichen Waffenhilfen bis zum neuen Haushalt (Sommer/Herbst '25) - während die Lage in #Ukraine schwieriger nicht sein könnte. Unverantwortlich
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(S+) Streit in der Bundesregierung: Scholz blockiert neues Milliardenpaket für die Ukraine
Außenministerin Baerbock und Verteidigungsminister Pistorius wollen der Ukraine nach SPIEGEL-Informationen neue Milliardenhilfen für Waffen bereitstellen. Bundeskanzler Scholz hält das für unnötig.
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January 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"Putin is closer to his aim of splintering the West than at any other time in the quarter century since he took power. Is this a moment at which to expect Putin to negotiate a peace deal?"
Must-read by Robert Kagan on Trump's options in #Ukraine @theatlantic.com

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trump Is Facing a Catastrophic Defeat in Ukraine
If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.
www.theatlantic.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Grateful for the invitation to #France24 to discuss the renewed Ukrainian activity in Kursk & the general outlook in #Ukraine heading into 2025 and a second #Trump presidency 👇

www.france24.com/en/video/202...
Amid counteroffensive in Kursk, Ukraine 'positioning itself as reasonable, desirable partner for US'
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January 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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More than 10 years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the human cost of occupation is undeniable: torture, propaganda and the deletion of identity

@GPPi.bsky.social @juliafriedrich.bsky.social and Polina Lebedeva

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Russian ‘Peace’ in Practice: Life under Russian Occupation in Ukraine - REUNIR
Julia Friedrich, Polina Lebedeva. Global Public Policy Institute Over 1 000 days into the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and […]
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November 28, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Russian occupation in #Ukraine destroys lives and livelihoods, but it also attempts to erase Ukrainian identity and occupy hearts & minds. Polina Lebedeva & I had a closer look at this for EUvsDisinfo 👇
"Occupation comes at a tremendous human cost. This is what we discovered in the winter and spring of 2024 during 17 interviews with Ukrainians who were residents from the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Donetsk regions and lived through Russia’s occupation."
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Russian ‘Peace’ in Practice: Life under Russian Occupation in Ukraine - EUvsDisinfo
Uncover the harsh realities of Russian occupation in Ukraine: identity erasure, cognitive violence, and resilience.
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November 27, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Discussing the small questions today @gmfus.bsky.social. Thanks for having me!
November 21, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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A nuclear threshold can be set as low as you want. It’s a made-up thing, not a natural law. But the lower you set it the harder it is to enforce & the harder you have to work to establish credibility in it.
November 19, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Habe heute mit Höhrer:innen bei #wdr5 über die Aufhebung von Reichweitenbeschränkungen diskutiert. Gab einige Kontroversen, teils aufgrund schräger "Fakten", teils getrieben von viel Unsicherheit.
Wir sind so viel stärker als Russland, warum realisieren wirs nicht.

www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/s...
Langstreckenwaffen für die Ukraine – Was halten Sie davon?
Die USA erlauben der Ukraine den Einsatz von US-Waffen mit großer Reichweite. Was halten Sie von diesem Schritt?
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November 19, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Dieser Wahlkampf darf die Außenpolitik nicht (wieder) ausklammern. Dabei wird es weder reichen, „Frieden“ zu plakatieren, noch pauschal mehr Verteidigungsausgaben zu fordern, ohne zu sagen, wo denn das Geld dafür herkommen soll.👇 www.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/aus...
Klarer Blick vonnöten
Ohne die USA steht Europa blank da. Deutschland kann sich keinen Wahlkampf zum Einschlafen leisten.
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November 19, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Genau rechtzeitig nach #Trump-Wahl und vor #G20-Gipfel behandelt die neueste Ausgabe der #Ukraine Analysen das Thema Friedensverhandlungen.
Mit dabei: mein Beitrag zu einer möglichen Vermittlerrolle von Brasilien, Indien, China & Südafrika👇
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B(R)ICS-Staaten als Vermittler im Ukraine-Krieg? | Länder-Analysen
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November 18, 2024 at 11:08 AM
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What's the gap?! Glad you asked. Abi Watson and @juliafriedrich.bsky.social explained it here -- basically the EU managed to spend down most of what it had set aside in terms of flexible-enough funds to be useful for crisis management until 2027 already now. gppi.net/media/Watson...
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November 18, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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🎙 Soon after the March 22 terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall, Putin began to weaponize the attack against Ukraine. 

GPPi’s @juliafriedrich.bsky.social appeared on BFMTV's “Le titre à la une" podcast to explain what to expect moving forward (in FR): www.bfmtv.com/podcasts/le-...
PODCAST : Attaque à Moscou: comment Poutine veut l'utiliser dans sa guerre contre l'Ukraine
Près de 72 heures après l’attaque meurtrière du Crocus City Hall, le pouvoir russe persiste à accuser l’Ukraine d’être impliqué. Pour l'heure, les corps de 137 personnes, dont trois enfants, ont été r...
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March 27, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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ICYMI: @juliafriedrich.bsky.social joined an expert panel last week to discuss a new European security order post-Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Hear why all panelists agreed that NATO membership is the best – and perhaps the only – way to guarantee security for Ukraine. 

📽 (in DE): bit.ly/3VCXjYR
Europäische Sicherheitsordnung nach dem russischen Krieg in der Ukraine
Der brutale russische Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine wird seit fast zwei Jahren fortgesetzt.Politiker*innen, Militärs und die Zivilgesellschaft ringen um eine...
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March 25, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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Pessimism abounds as President Zelensky visits Germany almost 2 years after Russia’s full-scale invasion.

But this disillusionment has "more to do with us than with Ukraine," writes @juliafriedrich.bsky.social for n-tv. Berlin should act decisively – not despair.

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Zwei Jahre russischer Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine: Das Wichtigste haben wir noch nicht gelernt
Auch zwei Jahre nach dem großen russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine fehlt es an einer klaren, politischen Zielsetzung deutscher Ukraine-Politik. Die Zeit für kritische Entscheidungen ist jetzt - das s...
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February 16, 2024 at 11:01 AM