Simon Koschut
Biographic Data
| ID | 4262933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Koschut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Koschut |
| SIGNATURE | KOSCHUT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7932-1928 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations
Over the past two decades, the study of emotions has emerged as a transformative frontier within international relations (IR). The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations aims to capture and contextualize these developments, highlighting how the analysis of emotions has allowed for deeper understandings of international and global politics. The handbook provides a systematic overview, mapping an inherently multidisciplinary field. …
Value orientations and social cohesion in organizational discourses
Against the backdrop of political polarization and societal fragmentation, liberal democracy, more than ever, rests on social cohesion. Civil-society organizations (CSOs) are pivotal in fostering this cohesion by building social capital and serving as catalysts of social change. However, civil society is also a space of ambivalence where conflicting values and priorities are negotiated and, at times, contested. Integrating insights from social ps…
Stigma in World Politics
Stigma has emerged as a powerful lens in international relations (IR), offering new insights into how hierarchies are constructed, identities contested and international order reproduced. Scholars have shown how states, societies and practices are stigmatized as deviant or inferior and how these processes produce and entrench global power asymmetries. Yet, as stigma’s analytical reach expands, questions arise about its conceptual boundaries, mech…
Political captivity and the weaponisation of emotions in international relations
This article introduces the concept of the weaponisation of emotion to analyse how emotional responses are strategically cultivated during instances of international political captivity. Using the case of Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus’s 2022 detention in Iran, it explores how states manipulate collective emotions – such as fear, outrage, and pride – to pursue political, ideological, or diplomatic objectives. Drawing on intergroup emotions th…
Transitional Orders in World Politics
The current international landscape is marked by the decline of established global and regional orders without the full emergence of new ones. We argue that this “time-in-between” is characterized by transitional orders—interim configurations of power, norms, and governance that emerge as actors respond to systemic disruptions and shifting global dynamics. While International Relations (IR) scholarship has extensively studied the rise and fall of…
Contesting the World
Over the past thirty years, norms research has evolved into a significant subfield within International Relations and beyond. 'Contesting the World' delves into the development of norms, exploring their emergence, change and legitimacy on both domestic and international levels. This in-depth volume presents the interpretation-contestation framework, positioning it as the primary theoretical mechanism for understanding norms. Leading scholars span…
Feeling European? The EU as an emotional community
This article explores the importance of emotions in the European Union (EU), highlighting their role in shaping the EU's self-image as a foreign policy actor and promoting social cohesion through emotion norms. Emotion norms are shared feeling rules that underpin collective identities and experiences within a group. Focusing on grief as an example, the article explains how it shapes the EU as an emotional community. By analyzing the EU in this wa…
The Rhetoric of Solidarity
Scholars have called to study how social cohesion is discursively negotiated and produced in communication behavior. However, empirical evidence remains scarce. In this study, we investigate to what extent and how civil society organizations (CSOs), part of the backbone of social integration in modern democracies, make references to social cohesion in their public self-portrayals. We develop a standardized measure for content analyzing the manife…
When international rituals go wrong
Recent International Relations scholarship has emphasized the significance of ritual and emotion in international politics. Much less attention has been paid to instances of ritual failure. Ritual failure refers to the occurrence of deliberate mistakes, errors or sabotage to contest the sociocultural boundaries, hierarchies and structures underlying international rituals. In this article, I argue that ritual is an emotion transformer that generat…
Emotion Discourse Analysis
How can emotions be studied in foreign policy discourse? In a step toward fostering methodological engagement and dialogue on this issue, this chapter develops a methodological framework for studying emotions in foreign policy discourses: emotion discourse analysis. Emotion Discourse Analysis is concerned with how foreign policy actors talk about emotions and how they employ emotion categories when talking about subjects, events, or social relati…
Reintegrative shaming in international relations
The Power of Emotions in World Politics
"This book argues that the link between emotions and discourse provides a new and promising framework to theorize and empirically analyse power relationships in world politics. The expert contributors argue that emotions are not irrational forces but have a pattern to them that underpins social relations"
Emotion, discourse, and power in world politics
This chapter develops the research framework of the volume. It is argued that the link between discourse and emotion provides a promising way to theorize and empirically analyse power relationships in IR. It carves out three research criteria for studying the power of emotions in world politics, which revolve around theory (what is an emotion?), expression (how are emotions expressed?), and effects (what do emotions do?), thus preparing the groun…
Power of Emotions in World Politics
A critical perspective on emotions in international relations
This chapter discusses emotions in the discipline of international relations (IR) from a critical perspective, meaning that emotions are theorized as contextual, relational, and shifting. Despite the strong forces of the rational actor paradigm in the academic climate, the last decade has seen an explosion of what may be called critical emotion research. While critical emotion research encompasses a broad and complex range of approaches and topic…
Collective emotions and social movements in world politics
Can the bereaved speak? Emotional governance and the contested meanings of grief after the Berlin terror attack
Emotions that run through relations of power are complex and ambivalent, inviting resistance and opposition as much as compliance. While the literature in International Relations broadly accepts emotions as an intrinsic element of power and governance, relatively little attention has been given to situations when the emotional meanings of “the state” are openly contested. This essay highlights a situation in which emotional meanings are contested…
Politik in den USA
Die amerikanische Politik ist gegenwärtig so umstritten wie selten zuvor. Umso dringender ist eine profunde Kenntnis des politischen Systems der USA und seiner Funktionsweise notwendig.Das Buch widmet sich in drei fundierten Teilen den wesentlichen Institutionen und Bereichen US-amerikanischer Politik. Im ersten Abschnitt beschreibt Christoph M. Haas die verschiedenen Institutionen und Akteure der Politik in den USA, sodann wird von Christian Lam…
Appropriately Upset? A Methodological Framework for Tracing the Emotion Norms of the Transatlantic Security Community
Emotions have been found to underpin the moral hierarchy of values and beliefs within and among groups by restraining undesirable attitudes and behavior. As such, emotions serve as potential indicators for analyzing whether or not certain norms are still deemed relevant. As Jon Mercer puts it: “One way to test for the presence of norms is to look for emotion”. While the literature in International Relations (IR) generally accepts the emotional un…
Regionen und Regionalismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Regionen und Regionalismus in Den Internationalen Beziehungen
Discourse and Emotions in International Relations
The field of International Relations (IR) has recently witnessed the emergence of a wide variety of different approaches to make sense of the many ways emotions work in and through discourse. This forum takes stock of and investigates this link based on two interrelated questions: Why study emotions through discourse? How can we study emotions through discourse? Concerning the first question, we argue that textual and verbal utterances provide us…
The power of (emotion) words
No sympathy for the devil
Constructivists claim that the democratic peace is socially constructed via mutual recognition between liberal subjects. Mutual recognition is rooted in shared moral attitudes and cognitive perceptions, thereby creating liberal intersubjectivity. What is largely missing from these accounts is the fact that shared meanings and identities are not solely rooted in cognitive perceptions and moral attitudes but significantly depend upon shared emotion…
The Structure of Feeling – Emotion Culture and National Self-Sacrifice in World Politics
Why do individuals sacrifice themselves to defend a nation-state? This article emphasises the link between emotion and culture by investigating the affective reproduction of culture in world politics. Building on the tradition of Émile Durkheim, it introduces the concept of emotion culture to IR. Emotion cultures are understood as the culture-specific complex of emotion vocabularies, feeling rules, and beliefs about emotions and their appropriate…
Discourse and Emotions in International Relations
The field of International Relations (IR) has recently witnessed the emergence of a wide variety of different approaches to make sense of the many ways emotions work in and through discourse. This forum takes stock of and investigates this link based on two interrelated questions: Why study emotions through discourse? How can we study emotions through discourse? Concerning the first question, we argue that textual and verbal utterances provide us…
The power of (emotion) words
Emotional (security) communities
What do Al-Qaeda , Human Rights Watch, and NATO have in common? They can all be understood as emotional communities. Emotional communities are ‘groups in which people adhere to the same norms of emotional expression and value – or devalue – the same or related emotions’. This article develops a conceptual framework for a particular type of emotional community in world politics: a security community. It is argued that emotion norms – the expressio…
The Structure of Feeling – Emotion Culture and National Self-Sacrifice in World Politics
Why do individuals sacrifice themselves to defend a nation-state? This article emphasises the link between emotion and culture by investigating the affective reproduction of culture in world politics. Building on the tradition of Émile Durkheim, it introduces the concept of emotion culture to IR. Emotion cultures are understood as the culture-specific complex of emotion vocabularies, feeling rules, and beliefs about emotions and their appropriate…
Regional order and peaceful change
The security community concept generally inhabits a rather small niche in the study of International Relations, as the logic of community fundamentally challenges the prevailing logic of anarchy. In this article, it is argued both on ontological and theoretical grounds that the concept’s intellectual heritage and depth transcends the boundaries of existing theories. In this sense, the concept of security community serves as a via media by linking…
When international rituals go wrong
Recent International Relations scholarship has emphasized the significance of ritual and emotion in international politics. Much less attention has been paid to instances of ritual failure. Ritual failure refers to the occurrence of deliberate mistakes, errors or sabotage to contest the sociocultural boundaries, hierarchies and structures underlying international rituals. In this article, I argue that ritual is an emotion transformer that generat…
Can the bereaved speak? Emotional governance and the contested meanings of grief after the Berlin terror attack
Emotions that run through relations of power are complex and ambivalent, inviting resistance and opposition as much as compliance. While the literature in International Relations broadly accepts emotions as an intrinsic element of power and governance, relatively little attention has been given to situations when the emotional meanings of “the state” are openly contested. This essay highlights a situation in which emotional meanings are contested…
No sympathy for the devil
Constructivists claim that the democratic peace is socially constructed via mutual recognition between liberal subjects. Mutual recognition is rooted in shared moral attitudes and cognitive perceptions, thereby creating liberal intersubjectivity. What is largely missing from these accounts is the fact that shared meanings and identities are not solely rooted in cognitive perceptions and moral attitudes but significantly depend upon shared emotion…
Feeling European? The EU as an emotional community
This article explores the importance of emotions in the European Union (EU), highlighting their role in shaping the EU's self-image as a foreign policy actor and promoting social cohesion through emotion norms. Emotion norms are shared feeling rules that underpin collective identities and experiences within a group. Focusing on grief as an example, the article explains how it shapes the EU as an emotional community. By analyzing the EU in this wa…
Appropriately Upset? A Methodological Framework for Tracing the Emotion Norms of the Transatlantic Security Community
Emotions have been found to underpin the moral hierarchy of values and beliefs within and among groups by restraining undesirable attitudes and behavior. As such, emotions serve as potential indicators for analyzing whether or not certain norms are still deemed relevant. As Jon Mercer puts it: “One way to test for the presence of norms is to look for emotion”. While the literature in International Relations (IR) generally accepts the emotional un…
Transatlantic conflict management inside-out
This article explores the impact of domestic norms on regional security practices in a pluralistic security community in the transatlantic area. A security community is considered to be ‘a group which has become integrated, where integration is defined as the attainment of a sense of community, accompanied by formal or informal institutions or practices, sufficiently strong and widespread to assure peaceful change among members of a group with “r…
Reintegrative shaming in international relations
The Rhetoric of Solidarity
Scholars have called to study how social cohesion is discursively negotiated and produced in communication behavior. However, empirical evidence remains scarce. In this study, we investigate to what extent and how civil society organizations (CSOs), part of the backbone of social integration in modern democracies, make references to social cohesion in their public self-portrayals. We develop a standardized measure for content analyzing the manife…
Transitional Orders in World Politics
The current international landscape is marked by the decline of established global and regional orders without the full emergence of new ones. We argue that this “time-in-between” is characterized by transitional orders—interim configurations of power, norms, and governance that emerge as actors respond to systemic disruptions and shifting global dynamics. While International Relations (IR) scholarship has extensively studied the rise and fall of…
A Framework for the Study of International Friendship
In recent years, International Relations (IR) has seen the introduction of more focused research on the concept of friendship in international politics. Indeed, although the term 'friendship' has never been absent from IR, its application has been somewhat loose and without a clear definition or systematic analysis. It has often been used to describe non-confrontational or harmonious interstate relations in empirical studies, but studies have fal…
Friendship and International Relations
International friendship is a distinct type of interstate relationship, and that as such, it can contribute to capture aspects of international politics that have long remained unattended. This book o
Transatlantic conflict management inside-out
This article explores the impact of domestic norms on regional security practices in a pluralistic security community in the transatlantic area. A security community is considered to be ‘a group which has become integrated, where integration is defined as the attainment of a sense of community, accompanied by formal or informal institutions or practices, sufficiently strong and widespread to assure peaceful change among members of a group with “r…
Emotional (security) communities
What do Al-Qaeda , Human Rights Watch, and NATO have in common? They can all be understood as emotional communities. Emotional communities are ‘groups in which people adhere to the same norms of emotional expression and value – or devalue – the same or related emotions’. This article develops a conceptual framework for a particular type of emotional community in world politics: a security community. It is argued that emotion norms – the expressio…
Regional order and peaceful change
The security community concept generally inhabits a rather small niche in the study of International Relations, as the logic of community fundamentally challenges the prevailing logic of anarchy. In this article, it is argued both on ontological and theoretical grounds that the concept’s intellectual heritage and depth transcends the boundaries of existing theories. In this sense, the concept of security community serves as a via media by linking…
The Structure of Feeling – Emotion Culture and National Self-Sacrifice in World Politics
Why do individuals sacrifice themselves to defend a nation-state? This article emphasises the link between emotion and culture by investigating the affective reproduction of culture in world politics. Building on the tradition of Émile Durkheim, it introduces the concept of emotion culture to IR. Emotion cultures are understood as the culture-specific complex of emotion vocabularies, feeling rules, and beliefs about emotions and their appropriate…
Regionen und Regionalismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Regionen und Regionalismus in Den Internationalen Beziehungen
Discourse and Emotions in International Relations
The field of International Relations (IR) has recently witnessed the emergence of a wide variety of different approaches to make sense of the many ways emotions work in and through discourse. This forum takes stock of and investigates this link based on two interrelated questions: Why study emotions through discourse? How can we study emotions through discourse? Concerning the first question, we argue that textual and verbal utterances provide us…
The power of (emotion) words
No sympathy for the devil
Constructivists claim that the democratic peace is socially constructed via mutual recognition between liberal subjects. Mutual recognition is rooted in shared moral attitudes and cognitive perceptions, thereby creating liberal intersubjectivity. What is largely missing from these accounts is the fact that shared meanings and identities are not solely rooted in cognitive perceptions and moral attitudes but significantly depend upon shared emotion…
Politik in den USA
Die amerikanische Politik ist gegenwärtig so umstritten wie selten zuvor. Umso dringender ist eine profunde Kenntnis des politischen Systems der USA und seiner Funktionsweise notwendig.Das Buch widmet sich in drei fundierten Teilen den wesentlichen Institutionen und Bereichen US-amerikanischer Politik. Im ersten Abschnitt beschreibt Christoph M. Haas die verschiedenen Institutionen und Akteure der Politik in den USA, sodann wird von Christian Lam…
Appropriately Upset? A Methodological Framework for Tracing the Emotion Norms of the Transatlantic Security Community
Emotions have been found to underpin the moral hierarchy of values and beliefs within and among groups by restraining undesirable attitudes and behavior. As such, emotions serve as potential indicators for analyzing whether or not certain norms are still deemed relevant. As Jon Mercer puts it: “One way to test for the presence of norms is to look for emotion”. While the literature in International Relations (IR) generally accepts the emotional un…
Can the bereaved speak? Emotional governance and the contested meanings of grief after the Berlin terror attack
Emotions that run through relations of power are complex and ambivalent, inviting resistance and opposition as much as compliance. While the literature in International Relations broadly accepts emotions as an intrinsic element of power and governance, relatively little attention has been given to situations when the emotional meanings of “the state” are openly contested. This essay highlights a situation in which emotional meanings are contested…
The Power of Emotions in World Politics
"This book argues that the link between emotions and discourse provides a new and promising framework to theorize and empirically analyse power relationships in world politics. The expert contributors argue that emotions are not irrational forces but have a pattern to them that underpins social relations"
Emotion, discourse, and power in world politics
This chapter develops the research framework of the volume. It is argued that the link between discourse and emotion provides a promising way to theorize and empirically analyse power relationships in IR. It carves out three research criteria for studying the power of emotions in world politics, which revolve around theory (what is an emotion?), expression (how are emotions expressed?), and effects (what do emotions do?), thus preparing the groun…
Power of Emotions in World Politics
A critical perspective on emotions in international relations
This chapter discusses emotions in the discipline of international relations (IR) from a critical perspective, meaning that emotions are theorized as contextual, relational, and shifting. Despite the strong forces of the rational actor paradigm in the academic climate, the last decade has seen an explosion of what may be called critical emotion research. While critical emotion research encompasses a broad and complex range of approaches and topic…
Collective emotions and social movements in world politics
Reintegrative shaming in international relations
Emotion Discourse Analysis
How can emotions be studied in foreign policy discourse? In a step toward fostering methodological engagement and dialogue on this issue, this chapter develops a methodological framework for studying emotions in foreign policy discourses: emotion discourse analysis. Emotion Discourse Analysis is concerned with how foreign policy actors talk about emotions and how they employ emotion categories when talking about subjects, events, or social relati…
The Rhetoric of Solidarity
Scholars have called to study how social cohesion is discursively negotiated and produced in communication behavior. However, empirical evidence remains scarce. In this study, we investigate to what extent and how civil society organizations (CSOs), part of the backbone of social integration in modern democracies, make references to social cohesion in their public self-portrayals. We develop a standardized measure for content analyzing the manife…
When international rituals go wrong
Recent International Relations scholarship has emphasized the significance of ritual and emotion in international politics. Much less attention has been paid to instances of ritual failure. Ritual failure refers to the occurrence of deliberate mistakes, errors or sabotage to contest the sociocultural boundaries, hierarchies and structures underlying international rituals. In this article, I argue that ritual is an emotion transformer that generat…
Contesting the World
Over the past thirty years, norms research has evolved into a significant subfield within International Relations and beyond. 'Contesting the World' delves into the development of norms, exploring their emergence, change and legitimacy on both domestic and international levels. This in-depth volume presents the interpretation-contestation framework, positioning it as the primary theoretical mechanism for understanding norms. Leading scholars span…
Feeling European? The EU as an emotional community
This article explores the importance of emotions in the European Union (EU), highlighting their role in shaping the EU's self-image as a foreign policy actor and promoting social cohesion through emotion norms. Emotion norms are shared feeling rules that underpin collective identities and experiences within a group. Focusing on grief as an example, the article explains how it shapes the EU as an emotional community. By analyzing the EU in this wa…
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