Antonia Baskakov is a graduate candidate in the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) program at Georgetown University. She is concentrating in Science & Technology in International Affairs with a focus on algorithmic biases and AI ethics and with certificates in International Diplomatic Studies as well as Women, Peace, & Security. Antonia serves as the President of Georgetown Women in International Affairs (GWIA) and co-leads the Human Rights & Development Section at the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (GJIA).

Before joining MSFS, Antonia initiated and led the work on feminist development policy at the ONE Campaign, an international NGO fighting extreme poverty. Prior to joining ONE, she was the Strategic Advisor to the Executive Director of the Center for Feminist Foreign Policy where she managed projects on transatlantic relations, peace and security, and feminist international law. She has worked in a variety of human rights-related fields, including legal research at Berkeley Law School and Stanford Law School for Professor Dr. Beth Van Schaack, the current U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice. Antonia currently serves as the Europe Youth Envoy for the United Nations' ITU and the Development Director at [gather], an NGO focused on women's leadership, and is a regular contributor to different news outlets writing about foreign-, security-, development-, and digital policy from a feminist perspective. Antonia also co-founded and oversees the Women in Foreign Affairs Network, an intergenerational network and mentorship program featuring off-the-record group coaching sessions with prominent leaders in foreign affairs. She has received fellowships from, among others, the European Recovery Program (ERP), the DAAD, and the German National Merit Foundation.

Publications:

Baskakov, A. (2023). “Digitaler Kolonialismus.”Internationale Politik.
This essay discusses the exploitation of raw materials, labor, and data, especially in countries of the Global South.

Baskakov, A. (2023). “Feministische Außenpolitik – Selbstzweck oder Motor für Veränderungen.” Tagesspiegel.
This statement outlines my expectations for Germany’s new Feminist Foreign Policy.

Baskakov, A. (2022). “Wie Facebook von dem Mangel an Datenschutz auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent profitiert.” Tagesspiegel.
This essay explores how big tech strengthens existing (post-)colonial structures in countries of the Global South.

Baskakov, A. (2022). “Angriffskrieg und Ernährungsunsicherheit – Krisen hängen zusammen.” Edition F.
This articles explores how the war in Ukraine is affecting countries globally and exacerbating hunger crises, especially on the African continent.

Baskakov, A. & Wiemker, V. (2022). “Gesundheit für alle – Ein Plädoyer für einen umfassenden TRIPS-Waiver zur Bekämpfung der COVID-19-Pandemie.” EURACTIV.
This article stresses the need for the EU to support a comprehensive TRIPS waiver that will suspend patents on COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics until the majority of the world's population has received effective vaccines.

Baskakov, A. & Lang, H. (2022). “Was bedeutet Feministische Entwicklungspolitik?” ONE.
This blog post attempts to define feminist development cooperation and highlights the need to prioritize feminist civil society, break up colonial structures, and redistribute Official Development Assistance (ODA)in a gender sensitive manner.

Baskakov, A. (2022). “Über die Notwendigkeit einer solidarischen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit auf Augenhöhe.” Internationale Politik.
This essay addresses the most prominent myths relating to development cooperationand envisions a concept of development cooperation that is rooted in self-reflection, responsibility, and solidarity.

Baskakov, A.(2021). “A Feminist Approach to Human Rights and the Rule of Law.” In Make Foreign Policy Feminist. A Feminist Foreign Policy Manifesto for Germany(pp. 19–23).Centre For Feminist Foreign Policy.
This chapter is part of a comprehensive manifesto describing the vision for a Feminist Foreign Policy for Germany. It describes the status quo of international human rights law (IHRL) in Germany and outlines detailed recommendations on how to prioritize, strengthen, and implement IHRL in Germany. A Feminist Foreign Policy is based on and informed by IHRL. It understands human rights through an inclusive and intersectional lens and acknowledges that to push for human rights credibly and effectively at an international level, Germany needs to fulfil its obligations under IHRL and ground its efforts in a domestic policy that exercises the same values.

Baskakov, A. (2021). “Wie Armut und Sexismus zusammenhängen.” Edition F.
This essay explores the interconnectedness of poverty and sexism and argues in favour of a feminist approach to politics that prioritizes gender-sensitive poverty reduction everywhere.

Baskakov, A.(2020). “A Tale of (Dis-)Integration – The Transformation of the Stanford College Republicans after the Trump Election of 2016.” Princeton Global History Lab.
This paper explores how the Stanford College Republicans as a group have changed since the election of President Donald Trump in 2016. It argues that the Stanford College Republicans became a polarizing activist group in 2017 following a change in leadership on both the external and internal level, namely the external change in US leadership at the national meso-level and the internal change in the Stanford College Republicans’ leadership at the micro-level. Mirroring Trump’s positions and language held at the meso-level, they contributed to crossing borders of the thinkable by moving the Overton-Window towards normalizing Trump-conservative positions at the micro-level.

Baskakov, A., Bernarding, N. & Lunz, K.(2021). “Ein Plädoyer für eine Feministische Außenpolitik.” Internationale Politik.
Sweden, Mexico, Canada, Spain and, most recently, Libya: more and more countries are committing themselves to a Feminist Foreign Policy. Opponents of such a policy claim that it deals exclusively with the role of women, solely wants to seat women at the negotiating table, is not to be taken seriously in global politics, unrealistic in its implementation, and creates new exclusions. This essay dispels these most prominent myths relating to Feminist Foreign Policy.