Rate My Professor Gerald Schneider

Gerald Schneider is Professor of International Politics at the University of Konstanz, where he has held the Chair in the Department of Politics and Public Administration since 1997. Born in 1962 in Zürich, Switzerland, he obtained his Dr. phil. from the University of Zürich in 1991 with a dissertation on time horizons in government decision making. Following a two-year postdoctoral position at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he served as Assistant Professor at the Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales in Geneva from 1992 to 1995, Program Director at the University of Berne from 1994 to 1997, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Stuttgart from 1996 to 1997. He was a visiting professor at Konstanz in 1995-1996 before his permanent appointment. Schneider has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Sciences Po Paris as Grosser Chair, Università Bocconi as Visiting Research Professor, Charles University Prague, University of Kobe, Università Siena, Uppsala Universitet, and the German Marshall Fund in Washington D.C. as Helmut Schmidt Fellow in 2018.

Schneider's research focuses on European Union decision making, causes and consequences of armed violence, international political economy of financial markets, bargaining and conflict management, and administrative inequality, including biases in economic sanctions, asylum policy, naturalizations, and visa issuance. He has published approximately 240 articles, garnering over 9,000 citations with an h-index of 49 on Google Scholar. Notable publications include 'Globalization and Peace: Assessing New Directions in the Study of Trade and Conflict' (Journal of Peace Research, 1999, with Katherine Barbieri), 'The Rules of Integration: Institutionalist Approaches to the Study of Europe' (2001, edited with Mark Aspinwall), edited volume 'Assessing the Capitalist Peace' (2013, with Nils Petter Gleditsch), 'Post-Cold War Sanctioning by the EU, the UN, and the US' (Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2020, with Patrick M. Weber), and 'Discriminatory Coercion: Understanding the Biases of EU and US Sanctions' (Journal of Peace Research, 2025). As Executive Editor of the journal European Union Politics, which he co-founded in 2000, and former Co-editor of International Interactions (2014-2018), he has significantly influenced the field. Schneider has supervised around 30 doctoral dissertations, with alumni in academia across Europe and beyond. He was President of the European Political Science Association (2013-2015), Vice President of the International Studies Association (2003-2004), and Program Chair for the ISA's 50th convention in 2009. He serves as Principal Investigator in Excellence Cluster projects on financial crises, political polarization, inequality, and administrative inequality for foreign nationals in Germany.