About

Simon Koschut is a Visiting Professor in International Relations and European Integration at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

His research interests include Security Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and International Relations theory, in particular regional security governance, social and normative dynamics of international politics, the affective underpinnings of power and language, and transatlantic relations.

His book Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) received the Ernst Otto Czempiel Award for the best postdoctoral monograph published in the field of peace research. Other work has appeared in journals such as Review of International Studies, International Studies Review, Millennium, and Cooperation and Conflict. In 2015, he won the Best Paper Award of the German International Relations Section. Currently, he leads a DFG research network on the emotional underpinnings of power and hierarchies in world politics and is a spokesperson of the DVPW theme group "Norm Research in IR".

Simon has held visiting positions at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, San Fransisco State University, and Freie Universität Berlin. He completed his PhD and his Habilitation in Political Science at the University of Potsdam.

He is liaison lecturer (Vertrauensdozent) of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a member of of the selection committee of the Fulbright Commission, and a member of the academic advisory board of the Cologne Forum for International Relations and Security Policy.

You can find many of his papers and books to read on academia.edu

News

On October 10-11, I will participate in a workshop at the University of Hamburg on "Norms between Normality and Normativity" .

On September 27, I look forward to participating in a panel on "Is there a limit to human rights?" at the DVPW Congress "Frontiers of Democracy" in Frankfurt/Main.

I will present a paper on "Beyond stigmatization: Naming, shaming, and reintegration in world politics" at the ECPR General Conference in Hamburg (August 24) and the EISA Annual Conference in Prague September 15).

My book Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) received the Ernst Otto Czempiel Award for the best postdoctoral monograph published in the field of peace research. The award ceremony will take place on September 21 in Frankfurt/Main.

Simon was awarded with the prestigious Heisenberg fellowship by the German Research Council (DFG) to lead a research project on "Emotional Communities in World Politics"

On July 3, Simon participated in a workshop on "Emotions and Trust in NATO-Russia Relations" at the Gerda Henkel Forum at King's College Center for Strategic Communication in London.

On May 4/5, Simon co-organized the workshop "Norms and Agency" at the University of Potsdam.

On April 26, Simon gave a talk at the German Federal Academy for Security Policy.

On April 1, Simon joined the academic advisory board of the Cologne Forum for International Relations and Security Policy (KFIBS)

On April 6, Simon organized and chaired a roundtable at this year's ISA in San Francisco on "Emotions and Power in World Politics"

Simon gave a talk at an academic career workshop for the Fulbright scholars at the Berlin Seminar 19 March 2018.

On 6 February 2018, Simon gave a guest lecture on "Emotional communities: The case of NATO" at the University of Gießen.

Simon has been appointed liaison lecturer (Vertrauensdozent) by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

My new journal article on "Emotions and the Social Construction of the Democratic Peace" is out now (Cooperation and Conflict)

The forum in International Studies Review on "Discourse and Emotion in International Relations" is out now, including contributions by Todd Hall, Reinhard Wolf, Ty Solomon, Emma Hutchison, Roland Bleiker, and myself.