Franziskus' research focuses on critical security studies, environmental and climate politics, theories of justice, and the European Union.
Until 2020, he worked in the GLOBUS project, which critically examined the EU’s contributions to global justice.
Since 2021, he has been part of the ZUSE project, which looks at the role of security discourses in the creation of European identities.
His work has appeared in Political Geography, Geopolitics, the Journal of International Relations and Development, and in the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB).
In addition to the featured title, Franziskus is the author of The Securitisation of Climate Change and the Governmentalisation of Security (2020, Palgrave)
