Jessica Berlin (political analyst)
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Jessica Berlin is a German and American political analyst and media commentator. Her analysis has been featured by CNN, BBC World Service, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, DW News, Le Monde, Tagesspiegel, ARD, ZDF, NTV, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Bild, et al.[1][2][3]
Career
Berlin is the founder of the strategy consultancy CoStruct, member of the Board of Directors at the pan-African fintech company Bridge Technologies and a Senior Fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).[1][4] She has lived and worked in Afghanistan, China, Myanmar, Rwanda, the United Kingdom, and the United States in security, foreign policy, and economic development, including with the US Senate, US Department of Defense, and the German development agency GIZ.[2]
During the 2021 Fall of Kabul, Berlin assisted in evacuation efforts for her former colleagues and other Afghans fleeing the Taliban. She criticized the German government for its “strategic and moral failure” to assist Afghans who worked with German military and aid missions.[5]
Prior to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Berlin called for Germany to cancel the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and sanction Russia in response to Russian refusal to withdraw troops from the Ukrainian border.[6] Following the invasion, she began supporting Ukraine’s crisis response efforts full-time and emerged as a prominent voice in German foreign policy debates.[7][8] She has criticized US and German delay of support for Ukraine as enabling Russian aggression, saying “(Putin) sees Western signs of weakness and delay as an invitation to keep going.”[9][3]
Honors
In 2023 she was awarded the Star of Lithuanian Diplomacy by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Lithuania) for her “outstanding work towards our shared goals, defending democratic principles against the spread of authoritarianism and disinformation”.[10][11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Jessica Berlin". Center for European Policy Analysis. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "A DEL Portrait – Jessica Berlin, a Free Agent Filling the Gaps". Policy Center for the New South. 13 December 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The realists were right about the war in Ukraine". New Statesman. 2 September 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ "Jessica Berlin – German Marshall Fund". German Marshall Fund of the United States. 22 April 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ ""Wir sind uns nicht sicher, ob die GIZ gerade überhaupt etwas tut"". Tagesspiegel (in Deutsch). 23 August 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ "Russia-Ukraine crisis: Is Germany letting its allies down?". Deutsche Welle. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ "Security expert: We need an international investigation of Germany's Russia ties". Berliner Zeitung. 9 December 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ "Jessica Berlin, Germany-based security and foreign policy expert". Ukrinform. 4 August 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ "Markus Lanz zur Ukraine: Berlin spricht von strategischer Fehleinschätzung". Frankfurter Rundschau. 18 March 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ "Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents the Star of Lithuanian Diplomacy 2023 recipients". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ "Foreign experts awarded Star of Lithuanian Diplomacy". Via Baltica. 14 January 2024. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
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