Simon Koschut is a Heisenberg Fellow at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Freie University Berlin, Germany.

Previously, he was a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Assistant Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Interim Assistant Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. Simon Koschut serves as one among four speakers at the research group „Normenforschung in den Internationalen Beziehungen“ as part of the German Political Science Association (GPSA).

His recent publications include Friendship and International Relations (with Andrea Oelsner, Palgrave Macmillan 2014) as well as articles in the Review of International Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and Cooperation and Conflict. His new book Undoing Peace: Normative Change and the Disintegration of Security Communities (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) received the Ernst Otto Czempiel Award for the best postdoctoral monograph published in the field of peace research.

Simon Koschut received his PhD from the University of Potsdam in 2009. He studied Political Science and North American Studies in Berlin, Potsdam, Chapel Hill, and Bonn.

• Regionalism in IR (security communities)
• Emotions in world politics (esp. the role of emotions linked to norms and language)
• US foreign policy and transatlantic relations

Current Research Project

DFG Heisenberg Programme "Emotional Communities in World Politics"

www.simon-koschut.de

Selected publications (April 2019)

Monographs

• Koschut, Simon 2016: Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration: Undoing Peace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan  (Ernst-Otto-Czempiel-Preis 2018 des Leibniz-Instituts Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK) für die beste Postdoc-Monografie in der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung).   

Journal Articles and Book chapters (peer reviewed)

• Koschut, Simon 2018: The Power of (Emotion) Words: On the Importance of Emotions for Discourse Analysis in IR, in: Journal of International Relations and Development 21(3): 495-522.

• Koschut, Simon 2018: No Sympathy for the Devil: Emotions and the Social Construction of the Democratic Peace, in: Cooperation and Conflict 53(3): 320-338.

• Koschut, Simon 2017: ‘Speaking from the Heart’: Emotion Discourse Analysis, in: Clément, Maéva/Lindemann, Thomas/Sangar, Eric (eds.) Researching Emotions in IR: Methodological Perspectives for a New Paradigm. Palgrave Studies in International Relations, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 277-297.

• Koschut, Simon 2017: The Structure of Feeling: Emotion Culture and National Self-Sacrifice, in: Millennium – Journal of International Studies 45(2): 174-192.

• Koschut, Simon 2017: Introduction to Forum: Discourse and Emotions in International Relations, in: International Studies Review 19(3): 481-508.

• Koschut, Simon 2015: Macht der Gefühle: Zur Bedeutung von Emotionen für die sozialkonstruktivistische Diskursforschung, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 22: 2, 7-33 (Best Paper Award of the DVPW IR Section).

• Koschut, Simon 2014: Emotional (Security) Communities: The Significance of Emotion Norms in Inter-allied Conflict Management, in: Review of International Studies 40: 3, 533-558.

• Koschut, Simon 2014: Regional Order and Peaceful Change: Security Communities as a Via Media in International Relations Theory, in: Cooperation and Conflict 49: 4, 519-535.

Edited Works

• Koschut, Simon 2017: The Forum: Discourse and Emotions in International Relations, in: International Studies Review 19(3): 481-508.

• Koschut, Simon/Oelsner, Andrea 2014: Friendship and International Relations, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan (Rezensiert in International Affairs 91: 4 (2015), 874-875).