The show is over - at least for now. Trump and Putin got what they wanted: the biggest news event of the year. Just as the meeting started, I joined @zdfde.bsky.social Heute Live to discuss the negotiations. We talked about many things, but I would like to highlight the following points:

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @balnik.bsky.social & Younna Christiansen outline the challenges of implementing a feminist foreign policy in the context of peacebuilding. polisky gendersky buff.ly/lyvq1IQ

Coming soon (July 25): The Contemporary Reader of Feminist International Relations, with contributions by many leading scholars in the field... and me www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Super Einordnung der aktuellen Proteste von @ljudmylamelnyk.bsky.social!

The first article and Notes from the Field from our Special Issue with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social on #feministforeignpolicy is online now! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social The first Notes looks at how FFP has influenced donor funding on peacebuilding:

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...

🎆I'm extremely proud to announce a special @interactfu.bsky.social publication: TALKING VIOLENCE - a new student-led podcast series dedicated to the many faces of violence, from its visible effects to its hidden structures. Born out of an undergraduate seminar at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social's

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Eine äußerst hörenswerte Folge! @annewill.bsky.social und Cornelis Adebahr in Topform und mit vielschichtigen Reflexionen über das aktuelle Geschehen und große Nuklearpolitik.

Deutschlands feministische Außenpolitik ist Geschichte – was nun? Erster Schritt: eine kritische und umfassende Bilanzierung. @karolinefaerber.bsky.social und ich schreiben in unserem Beitrag für die @taz.de, warum es eine Evaluation braucht.

In Germany, every single day a man tries to murder his wife or girlfriend. Every third day, he “succeeds”. This is only the tip of the iceberg, so much gender-based violence remains unseen. And it will continue to get worse.

🎶🤓🎻 Next week, catch GPPi's @balnik.bsky.social at the Philharmonic State Orchestra of Hamburg! As part of a Science Slam, he’ll discuss “War and Post-War Societies from a Feminist Perspective,” accompanied by live performances. 🎟️ Get your ticket: www.staatsorchester-hamburg.de/de/spielplan...

15. März 2025 Belgrad Serbien

On this March 8, the Georgian feminist movement is under immense pressure. But resistance is strong and the fight for gender equality and justice continues 💪 . Here's a short history of the Georgian feminist movement by the great writer Tamta Melashvili 💜 feminism-boell.org/en/2023/05/0...

Fantastic new video by @simonoxfphys.com and a great example for thoughtful science communication. The video left me feeling worried and empowered at the same time. I wish we had more communicators like Simon in the conflict studies crowd. youtu.be/h1jOqyjcO4g?...

Selenskyj könne wiederkommen, wenn er für Frieden bereit sei, postet Trump auf x. Während er und Vance für Putin vor der Weltpresse die Drecksarbeit machen, greift Russland Ukrainische Städte an. In #Odesa, wo wir im Hilfseinsatz sind, wurde letzte Nacht bei einem Drohnenangriff ein Mensch getötet.

Next summer semester, I will teach my first university seminar at Freie Universität Berlin called “War and Gender: Feminist Perspectives on Violence, Power and Resistance”.

Unsere Nachrichten sind voll von Kriegen, Krisen und "starken Männern", die sie verursachen und/oder zu lösen versprechen. Viele Menschen behaupten, feministische Ansätze seien angesichts solcher Realitäten naiv. Wirklich naiv ist jedoch, wer nicht feministisch fragt. Ein Blick in die Ukraine: (1/4)

Die neuen #Ukraine Analysen widmen sich #Sicherheit & #Außenpolitik: J. Kazdobina analysiert die bilateralen Sicherheitsabkommen, M. Malek den #Siegesplan von #Selenskyj und @balnik.bsky.social blickt aus der Perspektive feministischer Außenpolitik auf den Krieg: laender-analysen.de/ukraine-anal...

Es war abzusehen, dass die AfD die CDU bei der nächsten Gelegenheit umklammern und nicht mehr loslassen wird, um die demokratische Mitte zu zerreißen. Nicht abzusehen war, dass die CDU-Führung ihr diese Möglichkeit so schnell und so großzügig einräumt.

#Occupation: #Russian Rule in South-Eastern #Ukraine by David Lewis is out now! 🔊 'Brilliant [...] compulsory reading for anyone who talks easily about Ukraine’s ceding of land to Russia as a solution to end the war.’ — @sabfis3.bsky.social Get 25% off w/code OCCUPATION25➡️ tinyurl.com/a9fwmwde

I had the great pleasure of reviewing Maryna Shevtsova's "Feminist Perspective on Russia's War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices". It's an impressive collection of feminist analyses of Russia's war against Ukraine, written by Ukrainian and CEE scholars. Full review 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is how democracies die.

I had a great time speaking at the European Academy Berlin on how to make our support for #Ukraine more feminist! #FFP

Take it from someone who just wrote a book about the fall of tyrants: All of these dictatorships are more fragile than they look, it's not just Syria. All of them should be afraid.

Mark your 📆: On Dec 10, GPPi’s @balnik.bsky.social will discuss feminist foreign policy (#FFP) & how it could inform responses to Russia’s war against Ukraine at the European Academy Berlin. Come prepared with all your questions regarding FFP! Sign up here: www.eab-berlin.eu/lets-talk-ab...

I recently published "Governing the Feminist Peace: The Vitality and Failure of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda" with @paulcinnamon.bsky.social, which is the product of many years of work on WPS cup.columbia.edu/book/governi... (it kind of feels like a mic drop moment, but watch this space...).

🧵Did you know there's no system to warn people with hearing impairments in 🇺🇦 about incoming missiles, drones, or artillery? This shows: people with disabilities experience the war differently and deserve better support. A 🧵on what must change (1/7) gppi.net/2024/08/07/i...

Під час війни існує тенденція до перерозподілу політичної влади в суспільстві.   У Харківській області це призвело до важливих змін у політичній участі жінок, про що пише @balnik.bsky.social у своєму новому аналітичному звіті. як міжнародні актори можуть підтримати жінок-політикинь: bit.ly/3vL4FPq

War tends to redistribute political power in societies. In Kharkiv Oblast this has meant important changes in women’s political participation, as @balnik.bsky.social’s new brief details. Read (in EN or UA) how int’l actors can help support women politicians: bit.ly/4apV8vY

Ein Jahr nach Auslobung der feministischen Außenpolitik ziehen Diba Mirzaei und ich für die Frankfurter Rundschau ein Zwischenfazit. Feministisch wird nur punktuell gehandelt, wie ein Blick in die Ukraine und nach Gaza verdeutlicht. 👇🗞️👇 www.fr.de/meinung/baer...

Symbolbild für Berlin: Verkehrssicherheit für Autos vs. Verkehrssicherheit für Fußgänger*innen.

"What the report says is that, if what is happening continues or worsens, pretty soon—within the next six months—we will have a full-fledged famine." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

“If war is to be opposed, we have to understand how popular assent to war is cultivated and maintained (..) how war waging acts upon the senses so that war is thought to be an inevitability, something good, or even a source of moral satisfaction.” Always good to re-visit Judith Butler.

📣 Call for abstracts 📣 We invite 🇺🇦 voices to contribute to our new policy brief series “Feminist Perspectives for Supporting Ukraine”. International support for 🇺🇦 is vital but rarely feminist. Do you want to change this? Submit your idea here 👇 gppi.net/project/femi...