Franziska F. N. Schreiber

Doctoral Researcher

Per aspera ad astra

Franziska F. N. Schreiber is Doctoral Researcher in the research project “ConTrust – Trust in Conflict” at PRIF and Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. She is active in the Research Depart­ment Inter­national Institutions. Her research focuses on sanctions, inter­national organiza­tions and political develop­ments in Latin America.

Franziska Schreiber
schreiber(at)prif.org
 Press photo

CV

| since 2021
Research Assistant at PRIF

| 2024
Research stay at the European Parliament

| 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.

Projects

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.

  • 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.
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  • 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.
    Publication
  • 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
  • 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

  • EWIS 2024: Overshooting the Mark? On the Stigmatizing Effects of Sanctions
  • ECIB 2024: Arbitrary Arbiter? Approaching Normativity in EU Sanction Policy
  • ISA 2024: Arbitrary Arbiter? Approaching Inter-Institutional Sanction Enforcement
  • ISA 2023: Cooperation on Thin Ice? Drivers of Trust in Informal and Formal International Institutions
  • ECIB 2023: Back to Business: Norm Enforcement and the Lifting of Democratic Sanctions

  • Workshop at DHBW Lörrach in 2023 and 2024 on “The United Nations. Principles, Structures and Activities in the Main Policy Fields”