Simon Koschut is DFG Heisenberg Research Fellow at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University Berlin (2015-present). Previously, he held positions at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has edited four volumes and his work appeared in journals such as Review of International Studies, International Studies Review, Millennium, and Cooperation and Conflict.

PART I: Introduction and Analytical Framework 1. Emotion, Discourse, and Power in World Politics PART II: Empirical Cases of Emotion Discourse in World Politics 2. "An Extremely Obnoxious and Illegal Case": Three Approaches to Affect, Emotion and Discourse in the Aftermath of the Zhuhai Incident 3. Victimhood as Power in International Conflict 4. "On Monday, Our National Humiliation Will Be Over. We Will Finish with Orders from Abroad": Status, Emotions, and the SYRIZA Government's Rhetoric in the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis 5. Emotions and Reconciliation Rhetoric: Banishing the Dark Emotions in Timor-Leste 6. Hierarchies, Emotions and Memory in International Relations 7. Contesting Emotional Governance: Empathy Under Fire in the Israeli Public Sphere During Operation Protective Edge 8. Status, Emotions, and in US-Iran Nuclear Politics 9. Emotional Intentions: Self-Immolation and Ontological Choice in Tibet 10. The Power of Viral Expression in World Politics PART III: Conclusion 11. Emotion, Agency, and Power in World Politics