Carmen Wunderlich
Affiliate Researcher
Carmen Wunderlich is a senior researcher affiliated with the Peace Research Center Prague. She is also a senior researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Research focus
In her research, Carmen Wunderlich analyses the dynamics and resilience of global norms in light of contestation. Empirically, she focuses on the governance of nuclear weapons, nuclear nonproliferation, and disarmament, as well as on the role of civil society actors and affected communities in these processes.
She is particularly interested in practices of contestation and resistance to the preaviling normative order and in the social construction of enemy images, such as the “rogue state” concept. Since 2022, Carmen Wunderlich is the Principal Investigator of the subproject "Social Constructivist Approaches to Confidence Building and Verification" in the context of the research consortium VeSPoTec, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
SELECTED Publications
LUCENTI, F., DUCCI, C., WUNDERLICH, C., & LANTIS, J. S. (Eds.). (2025). Contestation in Prism : The Evolution of Norms and Norm Clusters in Contemporary Global Politics (1st ed. 2025.). Springer Nature Switzerland
SENN, M., & WUNDERLICH, C. (2025). The complexity of nuclear (dis)ordering: a research agenda. Cambridge Review of International Affairs
LANTIS, J. S., & WUNDERLICH, C. (2022). Reevaluating Constructivist Norm Theory: A Three-Dimensional Norms Research Program. International Studies Review
RUBLEE, M. R., & WUNDERLICH, C. (2022). The vitality of the NPT after 50. Contemporary Security Policy
SMETANA, M., & WUNDERLICH, C.(2021). Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics: Toward the Third Generation of “Nuclear Taboo” Research. International Studies Review
MÜLLER, H., & WUNDERLICH, C. (2020). Nuclear Disarmament without the Nuclear Weapon States: The Nuclear Ban Treaty, In Daedalus, Meeting the Challenges of the New Nuclear Age
WUNDERLICH, C. (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, J. S., & WUNDERLICH, C. (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.
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Contact
Email address: carmen.wunderlich@uni-due.de