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Partners in Peacemaking: How the United States and Europe Can End the War in Ukraine

February 19, 2025
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Leadership Change in Russia

February 15, 2024
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NATO and Ukraine: The Peril of Indecision

July 25, 2024
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Liana Fix is a fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is a historian and political scientist, with expertise in German and European foreign and security policy, European security, transatlantic relations, Russia, Eastern Europe, and European China policy. Dr. Fix is also the author of A New German Power? Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in the Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies.

Prior to joining CFR, Dr. Fix was program director for international affairs at Körber-Stiftung in Berlin. She was also a resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, and a DAAD/AICGS fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. From 2018 to 2019, she was a fellow for global governance futures at the Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues. From 2014 to 2016, Dr. Fix was a doctoral fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. From 2012 to 2013, Dr. Fix worked as a Mercator fellow for international affairs at the German Federal Foreign Office, the EU Delegation in Tbilisi, and the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Dr. Fix has contributed essays, policy papers, and articles to journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Quarterly, among others. She is also a frequent contributor to international and German-language media.

Dr. Fix received her MSc in theory and history of international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her PhD in political science from the Justus Liebig University Giessen. She is a member of the Aspen Rising Leaders, the BMW Responsible Leaders Network, and of Women in International Security.

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    Donald Trump's Shadow Man JD Vance: More Radical than the President? (in German) Link

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    Timid Resistance against the U.S. Government (in German) Link

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    Featuring Liana Fix via The New Yorker June 23, 2025

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    Is Trump's America a Reliable Ally? Link

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    with Liana Fix via Foreign Policy June 20, 2025

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    Balancing Act and Tightrope Walk: Europe's Trump Tactics at the NATO Summit (in German) Link

    with Liana Fix via Internationale Politik June 19, 2025

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    How the Israel-Iran Conflict Could Impact the Ukraine War Link

    Featuring Liana Fix via Huffpost June 18, 2025

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    Weathering the Storm: The Hague Summit and the Future of NATO

    European leaders should avoid clashing with Trump at the NATO Summit in The Hague. In the coming months and years, they should focus on increasing defense spending, further integrating Ukraine into the regional security architecture, and developing a European-led future for the alliance.

    by Liana Fix and Rebecca Lissner June 17, 2025 Wachenheim Program on Peace and Security

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