Friedrich W. Opitz is a doctoral researcher focusing on global political economy and the links between structural change and right‑wing populism. He is a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Friedrich is writing his PhD at the University of Leipzig, comparing structural change in East Germany and the U.S. Midwest. He teaches International Relations at TU Dresden and is an Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. He worked at Das Progressive Zentrum as a Project Assistant and has professional experience in journalism, diplomacy, and policy research. He heads the Climate, Labour and Innovation working group in the Industrial Heartlands Fellowship.
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