About

I am a DFG Heisenberg fellow at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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

I am currently working on a book project that combines ritual theory with intergroup emotions theory to explain how interstate peace is made possible among NATO members.

My most recent 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. In 2015, I was awarded with the Best Paper Award of the DVPW International Relations Section. Other work has appeared in peer reviewed journals such as Review of International Studies, International Studies Review, Millennium, Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of International Political Theory and Cooperation and Conflict.

I am the editor of two book series: "Critical Emotion Studies" (Brill) and "Emotionen in Politik und Gesellschaft" (Nomos). I am also serving as co-chair of the DVPW theme group "Norm Research in IR" as well as chair of the selection committee for the BISA Emotion in Politics and International Relations Book Award.

Previously, I held visiting positions at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, San Francisco State University, and Freie Universität Berlin. I completed both my PhD and my Habilitation in Political Science at the University of Potsdam.

I am a 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 my papers and books to read on academia.edu

You can also follow me on twitter (#SimonKoschut)

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News

I contributed to the latest issue of the German policy journal Internationale Politik on how emotions underpin and challenge the liberal international order.

I participate as a Principle Investigator (PI) in the joint research project Social Cohesion and Civil Society: Interaction Dynamics in Times of Disruption. The project is funded by the Berlin University Alliance. The interdisciplinary project is a collaboration between 12 PIs (HU Berlin, TU, Berlin, FU Berlin) in cooperation with the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).

My interview with Der Tagesspiegel on the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.

In December 2020, I will participate in an online panel on "Emotions and Peace" at the Oceanic Conference on International Studies (OCIS) as well as a workshop at the Australian National University in Canberra.

From October 7-9, 2020 I will chair an online panel on "Emotions in international politics" at the Conference of the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) in Freiburg, Germany.

On September 21, I participated in a virtual roundtable for the Emotion in Politics and International Relations Book Prize 2020 of the British International Studies Association (BISA).

On February 29, 2020 I gave a presentation on emotions in foreign and security policy to doctoral students of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in a Research Seminar on International Security in Berlin, Germany.

On January 20, 2020 I spoke on emotions in foreign and security policy during the European Cyber Diplomacy Dialogue at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

On the current crisis in NATO, the Tagesspiegel has reported on my research on the disintegration of international security organizations: click here for more.

Two new journal articles are out in the Journal of International Political Theory (2020) on the political contestation of emotional meanings and Politics and Governance (2020, open access) on emotion and method, respectively.

My book Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) received the Ernst Otto Czempiel Award for the best postdoctorate monograph in the field of peace research. It is now out in paperback.