Prof. Dr. Christian Kreuder-Sonnen

Professor (Jun.-Prof.) of Political Science and International Organizations
Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, Juniorprof. Dr
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Office hours during the lecture period:

Prof. Kreuder-Sonnen's office hours are held weekly on Wednesdays, 14:30-16:00 by prior appointment via email. The office hour is held in presence (room 450). However, you are also welcome to register for an online appointment, which will then take place using the Zoom room: https://uni-jena-de.zoom.us/j/97085826834External link (code: 088633).

  • Personal Details

    Professional experience

    • Since 10/2019: Professor (Jun-Prof.) of Political Science and International Organizations (tenure-track), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
    • 09/2019-02/2020: Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
    • 04/2017-09/2019: Research Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Departement of Global Governance
    • Scientific Coordinator, DFG research group “Overlapping Spheres of Authority and Interface Conflicts in the Global Order (OSAIC)”
    • 04/2016-03/2017: Research and Teaching Fellow, Chair for International Relations, Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, LMU München
    • 10/2015-12/2015: Junior Visiting Scholar, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
    • 10/2012-03/2016: Research Associate, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Departement of Global Governance
    • 10/2011-09/2012: Research Fellow, Chair for Global Governance, Geschwister-Scholl-Department for Political Science, LMU München

    University education

    • 10/2016: PhD (summa cum laude), Freie Universität Berlin
    • 09/2012-09/2015: Doctoral studies at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS)
    • 10/2005-07/2011: Magister Artium (M.A.), Political Science, Law and History, LMU München

    Stipends and awards

    • 05/2020: Early Career Prize Honorable Mention, awarded by the journal International Affairs for the article “China vs. the WHO” (2019)
    • 03/2020: Chadwick Alger Prize, awarded by International Studies Association for the best monograph in the field of international organizations and multilateralism in the last calendar year
    • 03/2019: Harvard Merit Fellowship for a six-month research stay at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, University of Harvard
    • 10/2018: Shortlist, PhD dissertation prize, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Department of Humanities and Social Science
    • 11/2017: Friends of the WZB Award for the article „Beyond Integration Theory“, published in the Journal of Common Market Studies (2016)
    • 10/2015-12/2015: DAAD scholarship for a research stay at Nuffield College, University of Oxford
    • 2014 & 2015: DAAD scholarships for the participation in international conferences
    • 10/2012-10/2015: PhD scholarship awardedby Fritz Thyssen Foundation
    • 2008-2011: Student scholarship awarded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

    Reviewer activity

    Journals:

    • Contemporary Security Policy (CSP)
    • European Journal of Political Research (EJPR)
    • Global Health Governance (GHG)
    • Global Policy
    • International Affairs
    • International Relations (ir)
    • International Theory (IT)
    • Journal of European Integration (JEI)
    • Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP)
    • Political Studies
    • Security Dialogue (SD)
    • Swiss Political Science Review (SPSR)
    • West European Politics (WEP)
    • Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (zib)

    Book publishers:

    • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Membership in professional associations

    • Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW)
    • European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR)
    • International Studies Association (ISA)
  • Research focus
    • Democracy and constitutionalism
    • Global Governance
    • International Institutions
    • Crisis and emergency politics
    • Legitimation problems of the liberal international order
    • Regime complexity
    • Public international law and legal theory
  • Publications

    Monographs

    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2012): "Der Globale Ausnahmezustand. Carl Schmitt und die Anti-Terror-Politik des UN Sicherheitsrates," Baden-Baden: Nomos (Inter-nationale Beziehungen 18).

    Editorships

    • Goddard, Stacie/Krebs, Ron/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Rittberger, Berthold (eds.) (forthcoming 2024): Special Issue “Contestation in a world of liberal orders,” in Global Studies Quarterly.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/White, Jonathan (eds.) (2022): Debate Section "Emergency politics beyond the state: Europe’s exceptional transformation" in Journal of European Public Policy (Vol. 29, Issue 6).
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Zürn, Michael (eds.) (2020): Special Issue "After Fragmentation. Norm Collisions, Interface Conflicts, and Conflict Management," in Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 9, Issue 2).

    Articles in peer-reviewed journals

    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Zangl, Bernhard (2024): “The Politics of IO Authority Transfers: Explaining Informal Internationalisation and Unilateral Renationalisation,” Journal of European Public Policy, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2024.2325008.
    • Goddard, Stacie/Krebs, Ron/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Rittberger, Berthold (forthcoming 2024): “Contestation in a world of liberal orders,” in Global Studies Quarterly.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Rittberger, Berthold (2023): "The LIO’s Growing Democracy Gap: An Endogenous Source of Polity Contestation," Journal of International Relations and Development 26: 61-85.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2022): "Does Europe Need an Emergency Constitution?" Political Studies 71(1): 125-144.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/White, Jonathan (2021): "Europe and the Transnational Politics of Emergency," Journal of European Public Policy 29(6): 953-965.
    • Heupel, Monika/Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Patberg, Markus/Séville, Astrid/Steffek, Jens/White, Jonathan (2021): "Emergency Politics After Globalization," International Studies Review 23(4): 1959-1987.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Zürn, Michael (2020): "After Fragmentation. Norm Collisions, Interface Conflicts, and Conflict Management." Global Constitutionalism 9(2): 241-267.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Zangl, Bernhard (2020): "Zwischen Hoffen und Bangen: Zum Verhältnis von Autorität, Politisierung und Demokratisierung in internationalen Organisationen." Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 27(1): 5-36. 
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2019): "International authority and the emergency problematique. IO empowerment through crises." International Theory 11(2): 182-210.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2019): "China vs. WHO: A Behavioural Norm Conflict Over Sovereignty and Global Health Security in the SARS crisis." International Affairs 95(3): 535-552.
      • Early Career Prize – Honorable Mention for best article by a non-tenured scholar in International Affairs in 2019.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2018): "Political Secrecy as Crisis Management and Crisis Exploitation. Active and Reactive Secrecy in European Crisis Politics," West European Politics 41(4): 958-980.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2018): "An Authoritarian Turn in Europe and European Studies?" Journal of European Public Policy 25(3), 452-464.
    • Joerges, Christian/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2017): "European Studies and the European Crisis: Legal and Political Science Between Critique and Complacency," European Law Journal 23(1-2), 118-139.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Zangl, Bernhard (2016): "Varieties of contested multilateralism: positive and negative consequences for the constitutionalization of multilateral institutions," Global Constitutionalism 5(3), 327-343.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2016): "Beyond integration theory: the (anti-) constitutional dimension of European crisis governance," Journal of Common Market Studies 54(6), 1350-1366.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Zangl, Bernhard (2015): "Which Post-Westphalia? International organizations between constitutionalism and authoritarianism," European Journal of International Relations 21(3), 568-594.
    • Hanrieder, Tine/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2014): "WHO decides on the exception? Securitization and emergency governance in global health," Security Dialogue 45(4), 331-348.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2011): "Der UN Sicherheitsrat als Diktator: Globale Terrorismusbekämpfung à la Carl Schmitt," Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik Special Issue: Terrorismusforschung in Deutschland, 231-258.

    Contributions to edited volumes

    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Tantow, Philip M. (2023): "Crisis and Change at IOM: Critical Juncture, Precedents, and Task Expansion." In Cathryn Costello/Megan Bradley/Angela Sherwood (eds.): IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 187-212.
    • Wisken, Lea/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2020): "Norm collisions in the regime complex for ocean governance: power or legitimacy?" In Seline Trevisanut (ed.): Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance. Leiden: Brill, 124-155.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2019): "Die Entgrenzung des Ausnahmezustands: Globale Krisen, internationale Organisationen und dauerhafte Ermächtigung." In Rüdiger Voigt (ed.): Ausnahmezustand. Carl Schmitts Lehre von der kommissarischen Diktatur. 2nd ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 163-184.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2014): "Global Exceptionalism and the Euro-Crisis: Schmittian Challenges to Conflicts-Law Constitutionalism." In Christian Joerges/Carola Glinski (eds.): The European Crisis and the Transformation of Transnational Governance: Authoritarian Managerialism versus Democratic Governance. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 71-82.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2013): "Die Entgrenzung des Ausnahmezustands: global und permanent?" In Rüdiger Voigt (ed.): Ausnahmezustand. Carl Schmitts Lehre von der kommissarischen Diktatur. Staatsverständnisse, Vol. 57. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 163-184.
    • Hanrieder, Tine/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2013): "Souverän durch die Krise: Überforderte Staaten und die (Selbst-)Ermächtigung der WHO." In Christopher Daase/Stefan Engert/Julian Junk (eds.): Verunsicherte Gesellschaft - Überforderter Staat. Zum Wandel der Sicherheitskultur. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 169-186.

    Interviews and media presence

    Discussion papers, Policy Papers, Blogposts (selection)