Prof. Dr. Christian Kreuder-Sonnen

Professor (Jun.-Prof.) of Political Science and International Organizations
Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, Juniorprof. Dr
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Room 450
Carl-Zeiß-Straße 3
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  • Personal Details

    Professional experience

    • 09/2024-08/2025: Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI), Florence
    • 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

    • Hirschmann, Gisela/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (eds.) (2025): Forum "Internationale Organisationen unter Druck." In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (Vol. 32, Issue 1).
    • Goddard, Stacie/Krebs, Ron/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Rittberger, Berthold (eds.) (2024): Special Issue “Contestation in a world of liberal orders,” in Global Studies Quarterly (Vol. 4, Issue 2).
    • 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/Schmotz, Alexander/Zürn, Michael (2025): "The complex effects of regime complexity: a conflict mode." European Journal of International Relations. DOI: 10.1177/13540661251368630.
    • Hirschmann, Gisela/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2025): "Internationale Organisationen unter Druck: Einleitung zum Forum."  Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 32(1), 27-42. 
    • Hofmann, Stephanie C./Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian (2025): "Handlungsfähige gesucht: Krisen- und
      Kontestationsmanagement internationaler Organisationen." Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 32(1). 99-117.
    • Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Zangl, Bernhard (2025): “The Politics of IO Authority Transfers: Explaining Informal Internationalisation and Unilateral Renationalisation.” Journal of European Public Policy, 32(4), 954–979.
    • Goddard, Stacie/Krebs, Ron/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Rittberger, Berthold (2024): “Contestation in a world of liberal orders.” Global Studies Quarterly 4(2): https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae026.
    • 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)