Friederike Kuntz is a political scientist with a background in International Relations. Her research is particularly interested in a historical view of international and global relations and related questions of human governance. 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. She was visiting postdoc fellow at the Collaborative Research Center “Dynamics of Security” at Philipps University Marburg and Justus Liebig University Gießen, and doctoral fellow at the Institute for World Society Studies at Bielefeld University where she is an associated member today. Friederike holds a PhD (Dr. phil.) from Bielefeld University.

Research Interests

• International and Global Political Theory and Sociology
• Histories of international and global relations
• Ideas of humans, government, sovereignty and the state
• Contested globalizations and new rightist anti-liberal global ideology
• Infectious disease control and borders
  
  

Current Research Projects at Scripts

• “The European New Right’s Counter-Globalization: A History of an Anti-Liberal Global Ideology.” (working title)
• “Borders, Infectious Diseases and the Government of Humans” (working title)