Christian Freudlsperger

Christian Freudlsperger serves as Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich's Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, focusing on politics in multi-level systems with particular expertise in European Union governance. His research examines how geopolitical crises reshape EU integration through border formation, trade policy, and redistribution mechanisms.

His primary research interests span European Union politics, multilevel governance, international trade policy, and border studies, with concentrated analysis of crisis-driven institutional evolution. Recent work investigates pandemic bordering, geopolitical rebordering during the Ukraine war, and the integration of core state powers through party manifestos and institutional design.

Analysis of his 2022-2025 publications reveals three dominant trends: (1) Boundary reconfiguration during crises (pandemics, wars), (2) Politicization of redistribution in EU integration through party competition, and (3) Comparative federalism examining EU trade policy against Canadian and US models. His scholarship consistently employs multi-level governance frameworks to analyze institutional adaptation under stress.