Gordon Friedrichs
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Gordon Friedrichs
@gordonfriedrichs.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law
Now it’s getting serious: youtube.com/live/nCxZkFU...
LIVE: Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Trump’s Tariffs Power
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November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spending the next two weeks at Yonsei University. Very grateful for the opportunity.
July 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I wrote a piece for @voelkerrechtsblog.org on the defense treaty between Russia and North Korea, arguing that the treaty reflects how authoritarian regimes use international law as a tool to legitimize state behavior and reinforce domestic autocratic structures: voelkerrechtsblog.org/autocratic-a...
Autocratic Alliance?
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June 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I published a comment in the Heidelberg Journal of International Law that tries to make some sense about the current state of American society, political accountability, and US foreign policy under Trump 2.0: doi.org/10.17104/004...
The Age of the Disaffected Voter: American Democracy and US Foreign Policy under the Second Trump Presidency - Nomos eLibrary
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April 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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We are hiring! Zwei Stellen als studentische Hilfskräfte (BA/MA) ab sofort in unserem Polykrisen-Projekt zu besetzen. Bewerbungsfrist ist der 21.4.: www.hadw-bw.de/junge-akadem...
Ausschreibung - Zwei Stellen als studentische Hilfskraft (BA/MA) | Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
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April 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#Spitzenforscher aus den USA nach Deutschland abwerben? Warum die Idee eines Meitner-Einstein-Programms zu kurz greift und wir aufpassen sollten, nicht die Grundpfeiler unseres Wissenschaftssystems mit solchem Aktionismus mit abzureißen, dazu mein Gastbeitrag im @tagesspiegel.de.
US-Forschende nach Deutschland locken?: Das wäre ein Bärendienst für die Wissenschaft
Mit einem „Meitner-Einstein-Programm“ soll Spitzenforschern aus den USA geholfen werden, in Deutschland weiterzuarbeiten. Keine gute Idee, meint Kristin Eichhorn, Sprecherin der Initiative forschender...
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April 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is actually hilarious.
😂😂😂
The White House has confirmed that the formula behind President Trump's new tariffs is essentially based on the U.S. trade deficit with a foreign country, divided by the country’s exports. Here's how that works. nyti.ms/4jgr9e8
April 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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😂😂😂
The White House has confirmed that the formula behind President Trump's new tariffs is essentially based on the U.S. trade deficit with a foreign country, divided by the country’s exports. Here's how that works. nyti.ms/4jgr9e8
April 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We are hiring! Zwei Stellen als studentische Hilfskräfte (BA/MA) ab sofort in unserem Polykrisen-Projekt zu besetzen. Bewerbungsfrist ist der 21.4.: www.hadw-bw.de/junge-akadem...
Ausschreibung - Zwei Stellen als studentische Hilfskraft (BA/MA) | Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
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April 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Call for Papers alert: Our polycrisis research team is organizing a workshop in December titled "Shifting Political Order(s) in the Polycrisis: Complexity and Challenges in Global, Regional, and Domestic Governance“. Deadline for paper abstracts is April 11: www.hadw-bw.de/en/young-aca...
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March 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New year, new publication: "The Polarization of U.S. Alliances: Domestic Division and America’s Commitment to International Security" article in the journal Democracy & Security www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Polarization of U.S. Alliances: Domestic Division and America’s Commitment to International Security
Democracies are considered particularly reliable allies as their political elites are accountable to their voters and party, prohibiting them from reneging on alliance commitments. Yet heightened p...
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January 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Read our latest article in EJIR by gordonfriedrichs.bsky.social and Jule Sommer on the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the European Union’s role conceptions!

You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/iqopt
January 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I wrote a short piece for @russiamatters.bsky.social on some of the mechanisms and effects of political polarization for US foreign policy towards Russia and beyond.
Polarization in the U.S. represents a structural constraint with profound implications for American foreign policy, particularly toward Russia, writes Gordon Friedrichs of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. www.russiamatters.org/analysis/ame...
America’s Polarization and the Challenges of Confronting Russia | Russia Matters
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January 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
New article out now with the @ejir.bsky.social on "Ontological security crisis and role conception change: the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the European Union’s role conceptions“ available via open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 30, 2024 at 8:54 AM
All set and ready for our workshop on “Cities as Global Actors in International Politics” here at the @mpil.de, jointly organized by Judith Keller and myself. The workshop is sponsored by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation.
December 5, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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I've published a new book, Polarization and US Foreign Policy: When Politics Crosses the Water's Edge, co-edited by Gordon Friedrichs and me. Book features 14 articles by terrific scholars on key dimensions of polarization and how it affects conduct of US foreign policy. tinyurl.com/PolarizedUSFP
Polarization and US Foreign Policy
This edited volume explores how polarization is changing the foreign policy behavior of the US Congress and President and America’s role in the world
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July 23, 2024 at 3:36 PM