About

Simon Koschut is currently a Visiting Professor in International Relations and European Integration at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Starting in 2019, he will begin a five-year Heisenberg Research Fellowship funded by the German Research Council (DFG).

He also leads a DFG-funded research network on the emotional underpinnings of power and hierarchies in world politics, serves as a spokesperson of the DVPW theme group "Norm Research in IR", and is lead editor of the Brill book series "Critical Emotion Research".

His research interests include Security Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and International Relations theory, in particular regional security governance, norm research in International Relations, and emotions in world politics.

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.

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

My book Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) is now out in paperback.

I presented my paper "Emotions, History, and International Relations" at the annual workshops organized by the BISA Historical Sociology and IR Working Group on December 7 at Sussex University and by the BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group on December 17 at Aston University.

On November 22-23, I participated in a workshop on security communities, organized by the VITRI Violence, Trauma and Justice Project at Charles University Prague.

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.

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

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

I presented my paper "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).

On August 3, I gave a talk on "Transatlantic Relations in the Trump Era" at the Summer School 2018, organized by the Atlantic Academy in Rhineland Palatinate.

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 was 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.