Felix Schulte
Dr. Felix Schulte is Senior Researcher and head of the cluster “Conflict & Security”. His research interests are situated at the intersection of empirical conflict studies and comparative politics and focus on three areas: the emergence of conflictive mass behavior in divided societies (conflict dynamics), institutional options for regulating such conflicts in a peaceful and sustainable way (territorial self-governance and power-sharing) as well as conflictual relationships between “old” and “new” minorities in modern societies (inter-minority relations).
Felix studied political science, sociology, and history in Eichstätt, Linköping and Heidelberg. Previously, he held positions as research associate and post-doctoral researcher at Heidelberg University and Mannheim University. Felix was a guest researcher at the Åland Islands Peace Institute (Finland) and the Institute for Minority Rights at EURAC Bolzano (Italy). His work has been published by Routledge, Palgrave MacMillan, West European Politics, the International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, among others. Felix is book reviews editor of the journal Democratization (Taylor and Francis). More information can also be found here: https://www.felix-schulte.de.
Schulte, Felix, Matthias Scantamburlo, and Maria Ackrén. 2025. ‘Lost Autonomy Triggers and the Rise of Secessionism’. European Political Science Review: 1–19. doi:10.1017/S175577392510026X.
Schulte, Felix, Juris Pupcenoks, and Māris Andžāns. 2025. ‘Cultural Memory and the Minority Effect in (Un-)Willingness to Fight for the Country: Evidence from Russian Speakers in Latvia’. European Journal of International Security: 1–17. doi:10.1017/eis.2025.10026.
Muratova, Elmira, and Felix Schulte. 2025. ‘Thursdays Are for Searches: The Russian Repression Calendar in Occupied Crimea – KonKoop’. KonKoop DataLab Blog. https://konkoop.de/index.php/datalab/thursdays-are-for-searches-the-russian-repression-calendar-in-occupied-crimea/ (December 1, 2025).
Schulte, Felix, Dogukan Cansin Karakus, and Ibrahim Gökburun. 2025. ‘Nationalist Focal Events and Anti-Minority Violence -- How Soldier Funerals Spark Ethnic Riots in Turkey’. European Sociological Review. doi:10.31219/osf.io/c37p4.
Schulte, Felix, and Doğukan Cansin Karakuş. 2025. ‘How Exposure to Wartime Violence Shapes Conflict Resolution Preferences’. Conflict Management and Peace Science: 07388942251334956. doi:10.1177/07388942251334956.
Schulte, Felix, and Christoph Trinn. 2025. ‘The Magnitude of Triggering Events and the Nonlinear Dynamics of Ethnic and Religious Upheavals’. Conflict Resolution Quarterly 43(1): 41–59. doi:10.1002/crq.21478.
Schulte, Felix, and Christoph Trinn. 2024. ‘Collective Emotions, Triggering Events, and Self-Organization: The Forest-Fire Model of Cultural Identity Conflict Escalation’. Aggression and Violent Behavior 78: 101954. doi:10.1016/j.avb.2024.101954.
Neureiter, Michael, and Felix Schulte. 2024. ‘A Tale of Two Logics: How Solidarity and Threat Perceptions Shape Immigrant Attitudes towards Immigration in Western Europe’. West European Politics 47(2): 280–302. doi:10.1080/01402382.2022.2143162.
Maerz, Seraphine F., Felix Schulte, and Christoph Trinn. 2024. ‘Autocratization and Political Conflict’. In The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization, Routledge. 10.4324/9781003306900-35.
Schulte, Felix, and Gene Carolan. 2024. ‘What’s Law Got to Do with It? How the Degree of Legalization Affects the Durability of Post-Conflict Autonomy Agreements’. Ethnopolitics 23(4): 409–34. doi:10.1080/17449057.2023.2207876.
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