Gordon M. Friedrichs
Dr. rer. pol., Senior Research Fellow
friedrichs@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-787
Main Fields of Research:
International Relations; Foreign Policy Analysis;, Global Governance; Polarization & Populism; U.S. Foreign & Security Policy; East Asia & Asia Pacific
Academic Career:
since 08/2023: Senior Research Fellow (MPIL)
09/2022 - 02/2023: Fulbright Schuman Visiting Research Fellow (Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, IN)
02/2022 - 07/2022: Adjunct Lecturer (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
10/2021 - 07/2023: Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer (Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg)
08/2021: German Academic Exchange Service Visiting Research Fellow (Institute for International Studies, Karls-Universität, Prag)
03 - 05/2021 & 2022: German Academic Exchange Service Adjunct Lecturer (Department of Political Science, German-Turkish University, Istanbul)
10/2019 – 09/2021: German Research Foundation Postdoctoral Researcher (Research Training Group „Authority & Trust“, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University)
2013 - 2019: Ph.D. in Political Science (Heidelberg University)
10/2016 – 09/2019: Research Associate & Lecturer (Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University)
10/2013 – 09/2016: Research Associate & Lecturer (Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University)
2009 - 2010: Graduate Studies Abroad (Arizona State University, USA)
2005 - 2012: Magister Artium in inPolitical Science & South Asia Studies (Heidelberg University & Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
Recent Publications
Monographs
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U.S. Global Leadership Role and Domestic Polarization: A Role Theory Approach.
Routledge,
London & New York, 2021.
Edited Volumes
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National Role Conceptions in a New Millennium: Defining a Place in a Changing World.
Routledge, London & New York, 2022.
(editor with
Michael Grossman,
Francis Shortgen).
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The Politics of Resilience and Transatlantic Order: Enduring Crisis?.
Routledge, London & New York, 2019.
(Hrsg. mit
Sebastian Harnisch,
Cameron Thies).
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
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When Leaders Disappoint - Rejection and Denial of Leadership Roles in International Politics.
In: International Relations 0, 0-0 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178231205399 (with
Áine Fellenz).
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Regime Complexity as an Asset? The Negotiations of the Arms Trade Treaty.
In: Journal of Global Security Studies 8(1) (2023) (with
Diana Panke).
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Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Key Debates and New Findings.
In: International Politics 59(5),
767-785 (2022) (with
Jordan Tama).
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Populist minds think alike? National identity conceptions and foreign policy preferences of populist leaders.
In: Foreign Policy Analysis 18(2) (2022).
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The Effects of Polarization for U.S. foreign policy behavior in international negotiations: Revisiting the two-level game.
In: International Studies Review 24(1) (2022).
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Polarized we trade? Intra-Party Polarization and U.S. trade policy.
In: International Politics 59(5) (2021).
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Die Polarisierten Staaten von Amerika und internationale Ordnungspolitik(en).
In: Internationale Beziehungen 28(2), 83-99 (2021) (zusammen mit
Sebastian Harnisch).
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From Factions to Fractions: India’s Foreign Policy Roles across different Party Systems.
In: India Review 18(2), 125-160 (2019).
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Alliances Rebalanced? The Social Meaning of the U.S. Pivot and Allies’ Responses in Northeast Asia.
In: The Korean Journal of International Studies 15(1), 1-39 (2017) (zusammen mit
Sebastian Harnisch).
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Schwerpunktverlagerung, Richtung ungewiss? Der „US-Pivot to Asia“ und seine unintendierten Konsequenzen.
In: ASIEN 139, 44-74 (2017) (zusammen mit
Sebastian Harnisch).
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Mediatisation of expertise? How media affects communication patterns in external economic policy advice in Germany and the United States.
In: Zeitschrift für Politikberatung 8(2-3), 115-129 (2016) (zusammen mit
Dorota Stasiak,
Eva Savinova,
Andrea Römmele).
Book Chapters in Edited Volumes
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Quantitative Content Analysis. In: Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods,
Patrick Mello,
Falk Ostermann (eds.). Routledge, London & New York 2023,
306-320.
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Defining Roles in a Polycentric World. In: National Role Conceptions in a New Millennium: Defining a Place in a Changing World,
Michael Grossman,
Francis Shortgen,
Gordon M. Friedrichs (eds.). Routledge, London & New York 2022,
1-22 (zusammen mit
Michael Grossman,
Francis Shortgen).
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Shrinking the U.S. leadership role: Populism and the change of domestic and international ‘Others’. In: National Role Conceptions in a New Millenium: Defining a Place in a Changing World,
Michael Grossman,
Francis Shortgen,
Gordon M. Friedrichs (eds.). Routledge, London & New York 2022,
25-39.
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Conclusion: Turbulence in the 21st Century International Order. In: National Role Conceptions in a New Millennium: Defining a Place in a Changing World,
Michael Grossman,
Francis Shortgen,
Gordon M. Friedrichs (eds.). Routledge, London & New York 2022,
172-179 (with
Michael Grossman,
Francis Shortgen).
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The Organization of American States’ role as facilitator of democracy promotion: Persuasion and social influence during the political crisis in Venezuela. In: National Role Conceptions in a New Millennium: Defining a Place in a Changing World,
Michael Grossman,
Francis Shortgen,
Gordon M. Friedrichs (eds.). Routledge, London & New York 2022,
158-171.
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Leading by example or extortion? U.S. leadership role transition under the Trump administration. In: A Hegemonic Transition?
Reconfigurations of Global Economic and Security Orders in the Age of Trump,
Florian Böller,
Welf Werner (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2021,
125-146.
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Straining Liberal Resilience: Trump’s Populism and the liberal economic order. In: Global Power and Democracy: The US after the Era Trump,
Florian Böller,
Steffen Hagemann,
Marcus Müller,
Lukas Herr (eds.). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2021,
221-240.
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Theorizing transatlantic crisis resilience: An introduction. In: Enduring Crisis? The Politics of Resilience and Transatlantic Relations, Gordon M. Friedrichs. Routledge, New York 2019,
1-17 (zusammen mit
Sebastian Harnisch,
Cameron Thies).
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A New Grand Bargain? Trumpian Populism and Shifts in Liberal Economic Order. In: Enduring Crisis? The Politics of Resilience and Transatlantic Relations, Gordon M. Friedrichs. Routledge, New York 2019,
203-220.
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The Logic of Crisis Resilience in Transatlantic Relations. In: Enduring Crisis? The Politics of Resilience and Transatlantic Relations, Gordon M. Friedrichs. Routledge, New York 2019,
221-236 (zusammen mit
Sebastian Harnisch,
Cameron Thies).
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Südkoreas strategischer Wankelmut zwischen den Großmächten: Eine liberale Erklärung. In: Chinesische Seidenstraßeninitiative und amerikanische Gewichtsverlagerung, Mischa Hansel. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018,
41-72 (zusammen mit
Sebastian Harnisch).
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Nordkoreas neue Strategie zur Stabilisierung dynastischer Herrschaft: Nuklearwaffen und innenpolitische Säuberungen. In: Chinesische Seidenstraßeninitiative und amerikanische Gewichtsverlagerung, Mischa Hansel. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018,
41-72 (zusammen mit
Sebastian Harnisch).
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Rüstungskontrolle/Rüstungskontrollpolitik. In: Kleines Lexikon der Politik, Dieter Nohlen. Beck Verlag, München 2015 (zusammen mit
Sebastian Harnisch).
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Sanktionen/Sanktionspolitik. In: Kleines Lexikon der Politik, Dieter Nohlen. Beck Verlag, München 2015 (zusammen mit
Sebastian Harnisch).
Further Publications
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Domestic Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ideas, institutions, and policy implications (Konferenzbericht).
In: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 14, 83-89 (2021).
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Muster der Politikberatung: Wirtschaftspolitische Beratung in Deutschland und den USA im Vergleich. Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2019 (zusammen mit
Dorota Stasiak,
Martin Thunert).
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3-Länder-Tagung: Regionalismus in einer entgrenzten Welt (Konferenzbericht).
In: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 10(1), 99-104 (2017).
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Buchbesprechung:
Milner, Helen V., Dustin Tingley:
Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy, Princeton, 2016.
In: IReflect – Student Journal of International Relations, 3(1), 101-103, 2016.
Presentations
20 Nov 2023
Politicization of International Security: The United States and the Iran Nuclear Agreement
Monday Meeting of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
24 Mar 2023
The politicization of polycrises: Populist role conceptions and international norm contestation in the 21st century
Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware (virtual)
05 Aug 2022
Back to normal? U.S. foreign policy under Biden
Summer School 2022: Democracy under Attack. The United States in times of crisis, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz (virtual).
28 Aug 2021
The Return of Liberal Internationalism? The Biden-Administration and transatlantic relations
Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz (virtual)
15 Oct 2021
The Biden Administration and U.S. Global Strategy: Perspectives on Transatlantic Relations
Charles University, Prague (virtual)
Teaching
Summer Term 2023
Verhandlungssimulation Europäische Union
University of Freiburg
Summer Term 2022
Qualitative Methoden
University of Freiburg
Summer Term 2022
Regional Governance in Asia
University of Freiburg
Spring Term 2022
Foreign Policy Analysis
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf
Spring Term 2021
Current Issues in International Politics (virtual)
joint with Ebru Turhan, Turkish-German University, Istanbul
Winter Term 2021
Die Europäische Union als globaler Akteur
University of Freiburg
Winter Term 2021
Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft
University of Freiburg
Summer Term 2021
U.S. Foreign Policy Analysis
Heidelberg University
Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad
(2023): “Does anybody care? How domestic polarization shapes U.S. international relations” (with Florian Böller), Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies, Berlin
(2023): “Ontological security crises and social structural change: The European Union’s role conception change in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine” (with Jule Sommer), European Union in International Affairs Conference, Brüssel
(2023): Methods Café Foreign Policy Analysis: Methods and Approaches at the Annual convention of the International Studies Association, Montréal
(2022): “Roundtable: Domestic Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ideas, institutions, and policy implications”, Annual convention of the International Studies Association, Nashville
(2021): “Roundtable: New Directions in Foreign Policy Analysis.” Annual convention of the International Studies Association, (virtual)
(2021): “Against all odds: Crises management and resilience of Transatlantic Relations.” Annual convention of the International Studies Association, (virtual)
(2020): “Polarized we trade? Intraparty polarization and U.S. trade policy.” Virtueller Workshop: Domestic Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ideas, institutions, and policy implications., Universität Heidelberg
(2019): “All good things come in threes: Ideological, institutional, and affective polarization in the making of democracies’ foreign policy.” Workshop: New Directions in Foreign Policy Analysis., London University, City
(2019): “Death by Transition? U.S. Leadership Role and Altercasting by Others under the Trump Administration.” Conference: A Hegemonic Transition? Reconfigurations of Global Economic and Security Orders in the Age of Trump, Heidelberg Center for American Studies.
(2019): „More Data, more Problems? Methodische Ansätze zur quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse von Außenpolitikpräferenzen und Kontestation“, Workshop: Methoden der Außenpolitikanalyse: Ansätze, Daten und Perspektiven, Universität Erfurt.
(2018): “A New Grand Bargain? Trumpian Populism and Shifts in Liberal Economic Order.” German Political Science Association Conference, Frankfurt am Main.
(2017) “Polarizer, Populist, or both? Donald Trump’s relationship with Congress and changing patterns of U.S. foreign policy” (mit Sebastian Harnisch). IR Conference of the German Political Science Association, Bremen.
(2017): “The Populist’s New Clothes: Policy Preferences of the Trump Administration and Transatlantic Crises Management.” Workshop: Crisis, the Politics of Resilience, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations, Heidelberg Center for American Studies.
(2017): “Polarized at home, bound to lead abroad: Contestation and Role Contestation and Change of U.S. Global Leadership.” Annual convention of the International Studies Association, Baltimore.
(2016): „Nordkoreas neue Strategie zur Stabilisierung dynastischer Herrschaft: Nuklearwaffen, Provokationen und innenpolitische Säuberungen?” (mit Sebastian Harnisch). Workshop: Stabilität und Krisen: Sicherheitspolitische Dynamiken in Asien, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin.
(2016): “From role to counter-role taking: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the allies’ responses in Northeast Asia” (mit Sebastian Harnisch). Annual convention of the International Studies Association, Atlanta.
(2015): “The U.S., its Pivot to Asia and allies in the Northeast Asia: convergence or divergence” (mit Sebastian Harnisch). Workshop: Strategic Triangle: US-China-Europa, Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
(2015): „Rebalancing oder Counter-balancing? The U.S. Pivot to Asia and its unintended consequences” (mit Sebastian Harnisch). German Political Science Association, Duisburg.
(2015): “From Factions to Fractions: Indian foreign policy role-taking across different coalitional settings”. Annual conference of the British International Studies Association, London.
(2015): “The Pivot to Asia, a pivot getting nowhere? A role theoretical study of U.S. leadership and contestation at home and abroad” (mit Sebastian Harnisch). Annual convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans.
(2015): “Economic Policy Think Tanks in Germany and the United States: Supply, Demand, Instruments and Strategies of Policy Advice. Think Tanks in the Knowledge Society” (mit Martin Thunert), University of Speyer.
Honours
WIN-Kolleg research grant “In the Age of Polycrisis: How complex crises emerge and how we can confront them” (joint with Natalie Rauscher), Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (300.000€)
Memberships
International Studies Association
Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft
German Association for American Studies
