Contact

PD Dr. Simon Koschut

Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science

Freie Universität Berlin

Ihnestr. 22

14195 Berlin

Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)30 838 75792

Fax: +49 (0)30 838 54160

Email: simon.koschut@fu-berlin.de

Visit my profile at academia.edu

Twitter: @SimonKoschut

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.