Friederike Kuntz is currently Postdoc Academic Coordinator of the Research Unit Borders and a researcher in the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS) at Free University Berlin. She holds a PhD (Dr. phil.) with distinction from Bielefeld University and conducts historical and neo-materialist minded research, which finds inspiration in the fields of International Political Studies, Cultural Studies and New International Histories. Her research focus is on historical regimes of human knowledge and government, and their mediation, as well as the history of “the international”. Prior to joining SCRIPTS, Friederike held positions at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Groningen, the University of Trier, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and the Cluster of Excellence “The Emergence of Normative Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt, and was a visiting postdoc fellow at the Collaborative Research Center “Dynamics of Security” at Philipps University Marburg and Justus Liebig University Gießen. She studied Political Science, Sociology and Romance Philology/French at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Unil-Université de Lausanne. Recent publications include On the Government of Liberty: Writing the Liberal Script into Action and ‘We the heads of state ...’: Pitfalls of global constitutional practice.

Research Interests

• New cultural and neo-materialist histories of human knowledge and government, with a particular focus on the international and sovereignty
• Historical instruction literatures and Victorian periodicals
• History of the European New Right movement and ideology
• Foucaultian analytics, ANT, cultural-technique research      

Current Research Projects 

• “Projects and Politics of the International in the Long 19^th Century”
• “Toward a History of New Right Counter-Globalization” 

Monographs

Aporias: the international relation, interrelated sovereigns, the human individual, and power-knowledge. Bielefeld, 2018.

Der Weg zum Irakkrieg; Groupthink und die Entscheidungsprozesse der Bush-Regierung. VS Verlag, 2007.

Edited Volumes

Der Begriff der Souveränität in der transnationalen Konstellation. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014, with Christian Volk.

Journal Articles & Contributions to Edited Volumes

On the Government of Liberty: Writing the Liberal Script into Action. In: The Liberal Script at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Conceptions, Components, and Tensions, edited by Tanja Börzel, Johannes Gerschewski und Michael Zürn, Oxford University Press, 2024, 68-85.

Über das Verhältnis von Performativität, Normativität und Normen in den internationalen Beziehungen. In: Kritische Normenforschung in den Internationalen Beziehungen, edited by Stephan Engelkamp, Antonia Graf und Katharina Glaab, Nomos, 2021, 93-116, with Daniel Jacobi.

‘We the heads of state ...’: Pitfalls of global constitutional practice. In: Journal of Global Constitutionalism 2020, 9:3, 437-466.

Connectivity as Problem: Security, Mobility, Liberals and Christians. In: Security/Mobility: Politics of Movement, edited by Matthias Leese und Stef Wittendorp (eds.), Manchester University Press, 2017, 17-34, with Luis Lobo-Guerrero.

Souveränität an den Rändern der Staatenwelt, In: Der Begriff der Souveränität in der transnationalen Konstellation, edited by Christian Volk und Friederike Kuntz, Nomos, 2014, 25-52.

Souveränität und die transnationale Konstellation: Eine Einleitung. In: Der Begriff der Souveränität in der transnationalen Konstellation, edited by Christian Volk und Friederike Kuntz, Nomos, 2014, 9-24, with Christian Volk.