gordon.friedrichs
Gordon Friedrichs
Tél.:+4901784145937 - gordon.friedrichs@sciencespo.frGordon Friedrichs is the Alfred Grosser Chair Visiting Professor at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po for the academic year 2025/26. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. His research focuses on U.S. foreign and security policy, the resilience and transformation of global governance, and the international relations of East Asia and the Asia-Pacific. Since April 2024, he has been leading the research project „In the Age of the Polycrisis: How complex crises emerge and how we can confront them“, funded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
He is the author of U.S. Global Leadership Role and Domestic Polarization (Routledge, 2021) and co-editor of several volumes, most recently International Organizations Amid Global Crises (Bristol University Press) and Polarization & US Foreign Policy: When Politics Crosses the Water’s Edge (Palgrave Macmillan). His research has appeared in journals including the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Politics, and Journal of Global Security Studies.
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US Foreign and Security Policy, Sciences Po (Collège universitaire)
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(2025): “The Age of the Disaffected Voter: American Democracy and US foreign policy under the second Trump presidency”. Heidelberg Journal of International Law 85(1): 1-16.
(2025): “The polarization of U.S. alliances: Domestic division and U.S. commitment to international security”. Democracy & Security.
(2024): “Ontological Security Crisis and Role Conception Change: The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the European Union's Role Conceptions” (with Jule Sommer). The European Journal of International Relations.
(2024): “Learning by doing: a role theoretical approach to role learning of inter-governmental organizations”. Globalizations 22(5): 745-765.
(2023): “When Leaders Disappoint: Rejection and Denial of Leadership Roles in International Politics” (with Áine Fellenz). International Relations.
(2023): “Regime Complexity as an Asset? The Negotiations of the Arms Trade Treaty” (with Diana Panke). Journal of Global Security Studies 8(1).
(2022): “Populist minds think alike? National identity conceptions and foreign policy preferences of populist leaders”. Foreign Policy Analysis 18(2).
(2022): “The Effects of Polarization for U.S. foreign policy behavior in international negotiations: Revisiting the two-level game”. International Studies Review 24(1).
(2022): “Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Key Debates and New Findings” (with Jordan Tama). International Politics 59(5): 767 – 785.
(2021): “Polarized we trade? Intra-Party Polarization and U.S. trade policy”. International Politics. 59(5): 956 – 980. Online first.
