Carmen Wunderlich

Carmen Wunderlich is a senior researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She is also a Principal Investigator in the research consortium “VeSPoTec – Nuclear Verification in a Complex and Unpredictable World: Social, Political, and Technical Processes”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, and an affiliate researcher at the Peace Research Center Prague. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Frankfurt. Her research focuses on global norm dynamics and practices of contestation with a specific focus on issues related to the control of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear disarmament. Her work has been published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Contemporary Security Policy, Dædalus, International Studies Review, Review of International Studies, and other journals. She is the author of Rogue States as Norm Entrepreneurs: Black Sheep or Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing? (2020) and co-editor, with Harald Müller, of Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control: Interests, Conflicts, and Justice (2013), and, with Flavia Lucenti, Cecilia Ducci, and Jeffrey S. Lantis, of Contestation in Prism: The Evolution of International Norms and Norm Clusters in Contemporary Global Politics (2025).