Franziska F. N. Schreiber

Doctoral Researcher

Per aspera ad astra

Franziska F. N. Schreiber is a Doctoral Re­searcher in the Research Department International Insti­tutions. Her research focuses on sanctions, inter­national organizations (parti­cularly the European Union and the Uni­ted Nations), and political develop­ments in Latin Ame­rica. 

Franziska Schreiber
schreiber(at)prif.org
 Press photo

CV

| 2026
Research fellow­ship at the European University Insti­tute (EUI), Florence

| 2025
Blue Book intern­ship at the European External Action Ser­vice (EEAS), Brussels

| 2024
Research fellow­ship at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Inter­nacionals (IBEI), Barcelona

| 2023
Research fellowship at the Euro­pean Parliament

| since 2021
Researcher at PRIF (until 2023 HSFK)

| 2021
Administrative Project Coor­dinator at PRIF

| 2020–2021
Research Assis­tant at PRIF

| 2020–2021
Research Assistant at the German Natio­nal Academy of Sciences Leo­poldina, Halle (Saale)

| 2020
Research Assistant at the Insti­tute for Latin American Studies of the Leibniz Insti­tute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg

| 2018–2019
Student Assistant at the Chair of Romance Litera­tures and Cultures, Uni­versity of Passau

| 2017
Study abroad at the Uni­versity of Concepción, Chile

| 2016–2017
Student Assistant to the Program Coor­dinator at the Faculty of Arts and Humani­ties, University of Passau

| 2016–2019
Master's degree in International Cultural and Busi­ness Studies (Political Science, Latin American Studies and Develop­ment Economics), University of Passau

| 2012–2015
Bachelor's degree in Public Manage­ment, Ludwigsburg University of Applied Sciences for Public Adminis­tration and Finance

PhD Project

The qualitative and quantitative pro­liferation of EU sanctions over the past years is puzzling not only given re­peated indication of their limited effectiveness, but also in view of diverging na­tional interests among EU member states. The project opens the “black box” of EU sanctions by analy­zing contestation practices in the EU discourse on sanction implemen­tation in the European Parliament as the EU’s major public forum. Apart from the econo­mic and behavioral goals conventionally pursued with sanctions, it is argued that sanction effectiveness for the senders may also de­rive from their underlying signaling power as normative and order-constructing foreign policy tools. To examine EU sanctions against Russia, the pro­ject advances a constructivist-interpretive perspective and triangulates a dis­course-analytically informed content analysis with expert interviews. In view of the current state of leeway-granting legal sanction frame­works, the project contributes by unra­velling the involved EU actors’ conceptions of sanctions by means of the practice of imple­mentation, thus broadening our understanding of the overall utility function of sanctions.

Highlights

Lifting Sanctions, Holding the Line

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, speaks to the press during a meeting of the European Council of Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministers in Brussels. New PRIF Spotlight by Franziska F. N. Schreiber discusses recent lifting of EU economic sanctions on Syria

Publications

  • Development Aid Cut-Offs
    | 2025
    Schreiber, Franziska F. N. (2025): Development Aid Cut-Offs, in: Charron, Andrea; Portela, Clara; Sossai, Mirko (eds), The Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions.
  • Expect the worst, prepare for the best: Frieden verhandeln
    | 2024
    Deitelhoff, Nicole; Dembinski, Matthias; Driedger, Jonas J.; Gromes, Thorsten; Hirschler, Helena; Marauhn, Thilo; Peez, Anton; Polianskii, Mikhail; Schreiber, Franziska (2024): Expect the worst, prepare for the best: Frieden verhandeln, in: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (PRIF)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (eds), Friedensgutachten 2024, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 115–129.
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  • Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Handel und Frieden: Wie viel Entflechtung verträgt der Frieden?
    | 2023
    Abb, Pascal; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Kroll, Stefan; Peez, Anton; Schreiber, Franziska; Wolff, Jonas (2023): Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Handel und Frieden: Wie viel Entflechtung verträgt der Frieden?, in: onn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (eds), Friedensgutachten 2023, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 103-121.
    Publication

  • Lifting Sanctions, Holding the Line: Shaping EU Credibility in Post-Assad Syria
    | 2025
    Schreiber, Franziska F. N. (2025): Lifting Sanctions, Holding the Line: Shaping EU Credibility in Post-Assad Syria, PRIF Spotlight: 5, Frankfurt/M. DOI: 10.48809/prifspot2505
  • Moving in the Rights’ Direction? An Assessment of the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (EUGHRSR)
    | 2024
    Schreiber, Franziska F. N. (2024): Moving in the Rights’ Direction? An Assessment of the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (EUGHRSR), PRIF Blog.
    Publication
  • Handel und Frieden: Wie viel Entflechtung verträgt der Frieden?
    | 2023
    Abb, Pascal; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Kroll, Stefan; Peez, Anton; Schreiber, Franziska; Wolff, Jonas (2023): Handel und Frieden: Wie viel Entflechtung verträgt der Frieden?, Friedensgutachten 2023: Noch lange kein Frieden , Bielefeld: Transkript, 105–111.
    Publication
    ISBN: 978-3-8376-6801-8
  • Brazil’s Presidential Election: How Far does the Populist Glow Reach?
    | 2022
    Schreiber, Franziska (2022): Brazil’s Presidential Election: How Far does the Populist Glow Reach?, PRIF Blog.
    Publication
  • Democracy on the Razor’s Edge
    | 2022
    Natal, Ariadne; Schreiber, Franziska (2022): Democracy on the Razor’s Edge. The 2022 Presidential Elections in Brazil, PRIF Spotlight, 9, Frankfurt/M. DOI: 10.48809/prifspot2209
  • The Global State of Young Scientists in Latin America and the Caribbean
    | 2022
    Miranda Nieto, Alejandro; Schreiber, Franziska F. N.; McAlpine, Lynn (2022): The Global State of Young Scientists in Latin America and the Caribbean. An Exploration of Constraints and Strategies, GloSYS LAC Report. DOI: 10.26164/GYA_00501
    Publication
  • Auf Kurs in unsicherem Fahrwasser: Der Verfassungsprozess in Chile
    | 2021
    Schreiber, Franziska (2021): Auf Kurs in unsicherem Fahrwasser: Der Verfassungsprozess in Chile, PRIF Blog.
    Publication
  • Am seidenen Faden: Das Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der Europäischen Union (EU) und dem Mercosur
    | 2021
    Schreiber, Franziska (2021): Am seidenen Faden: Das Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der Europäischen Union (EU) und dem Mercosur, PRIF Blog.
    Publication
  • The Constitutional Process in Chile
    | 2020
    Zilla, Claudia; Schreiber, Franziska F. N. (2020): The Constitutional Process in Chile. The South American Country Is Searching for a New Social Contract, SWP Comment: 17. DOI: 10.18449/2020C17
    Publication

Further Activities

| 2024–2026
Young Fellow of the Wissen­schaftliche Gesell­schaft an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

| 2023–2024
ECR Representative in ConTrust

  • IB Section Con­ference 2026
  • 2022–2025, Workshops on the United Nations, Baden-Württem­berg Cooperative State Uni­versity, Lörrach
  • EISA-PEC 2025, Con­ference Presentation
  • EWIS 2025, Con­ference Presentation
  • 2025, Guest Lecture, Uni­versity of Giessen
  • DVPW Congress 2024, con­ference presentation
  • EWIS 2024, conference presen­tation
  • ECIB 2024, con­ference presen­tation
  • ISA-PEC 2024, con­ference presentation
  • 2024, guest lecture, Uni­versity of Valencia
  • 2023, Guest Lecture, Uni­versity of Giessen
  • ISA 2023, Con­ference Presentation
  • ECIB 2023, Con­ference Presentation