Carmen Wunderlich

Affiliate Researcher

Carmen Wunderlich is a senior researcher affiliated with Peace Research Center Prague. She is also a senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen in the department of International Relations and Development Policy.

Research focus

In her research, Carmen Wunderlich focuses on global norm dynamics, particularly regarding the control of weapons of mass destruction; nuclear disarmament as well as – most recently – the role of civil society (actors) in nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament.

She is particularly interested in practices of contestation and resistance towards the ‘ruling’ normative order and in the social construction of enemy images, such as the “rogue state” concept.

SELECTED Publications

RUBLEE, Maria R., WUNDERLICH, Carmen (2022). The vitality of the NPT after 50. Contemporary Security Policy

SMETANA, Michal., WUNDERLICH, Carmen (2021). Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics: Toward the Third Generation of “Nuclear Taboo” Research. International Studies Review

MÜLLER, Harald, WUNDERLICH, Carmen. (2020). Nuclear Disarmament without the Nuclear Weapon States: The Nuclear Ban Treaty, In Daedalus, Meeting the Challenges of the New Nuclear Age

WUNDERLICH, Carmen. (2020). Rogue States as Norm Entrepreneurs: Black Sheep or Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? as part of the book series Norm Research in International Relations edited by Antje Wiener, Springer.

LANTIS, Jeffrey S., WUNDERLICH, Carmen (2018). Resiliency Dynamics of Norm Clusters: Norm Contestation and International Cooperation, Review of International Studies, 44(3), 570-593.

BACKGROUND

Carmen Wunderlich studied Political Science, Philosophy and German Language and Literature Studies, and received her Ph.D. from Goethe University Frankfurt. She was a visiting scholar at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) in Vienna, Austria.

Contact

Email address: carmen.wunderlich@uni-due.de