Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider

Gerald Schneider, born in 1962 in Zürich, is Professor of International Politics and Executive Editor of “European Union Politics”. His main areas of research are European Union decision making, the causes and consequences of armed violence, the international political economy of financial markets, bargaining and conflict management.
Schneider defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich in 1991, worked as post-doc at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) for two years and was an assistant professor (1992 – 1995) at the Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales in Geneva. Before joining the faculty at Konstanz in 1997, he was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Stuttgart (1996-1997) and Program Director at the University of Berne (1994 – 1997). Gerald Schneider has also been visiting scholar at Università Bocconi (Milan), Charles University Prague,  Harvard University, University of Kobe and Università Siena. He has published around 140 articles in various journals and volumes. Schneider is currently President of the European Political Science Association and was also in 2003-2004 Vice President of the International Studies Association for which he has served as the Program Co-Chair for the 50th annual convention in New York City in 2009, too. Schneider has acted as a consultant and referee for various organizations, including the World Bank and the U.S. National Science Foundation. He serves on the board of the Réseau suisse pour les études internationales as well as the Fedor Lynen selection committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Besides his native German, Schneider speaks English, French and survives in Italian and Danish.