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Natasha Wunsch

Prof. Dr.

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 natasha.wunsch@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 7762
 

European Integration; EU enlargement; Euroscepticism

Democratisation; democracy promotion; democratic backsliding

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Departement für Europastudien und Slavistik

PER 21 bu. D429
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg
PER 21, D429

Biografie

Natasha Wunsch joined the ÌÇÐÄVolg in 2023 as Professor of European ÌÇÐÄVolg as well as co-director of the Centre for European ÌÇÐÄVolg and head of the MA in European ÌÇÐÄVolg. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Political Science/European Integration at , Senior Researcher at and Visiting Fellow at and the . She is currently Chair of the .

Natasha Wunsch received her PhD from in 2016 and defended her habilitation at ETH Zurich in 2023. Previously, she completed a dual Master’s degree in European ÌÇÐÄVolg and Political Science at and the . In addition to her academic activities, she sits on the Academic Advisory Committee of the and on the Academic Advisory Board of the . She is also a member of the .

Her research interests lie at the interface between European and comparative politics. She studies processes of democracy promotion as well as democratic regression primarily in the post-communist space and is interested in the implications of current challenges to liberal democracy for European cooperation and the process of European integration. Her research has been published in the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Common Market ÌÇÐÄVolg and Democratization, among others. In a funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Ambizione), she is currently investigating the role of citizens’ democratic attitudes in processes of democratic erosion.

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