Simon Koschut is a DFG Heisenberg fellow at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His 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. His 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. Other work has appeared in journals such as Review of International Studies, International Studies Review, Millennium, and Cooperation and Conflict.