Stephan Fouquet
Stephan Fouquet MA
Research Associate
Building Universitätsallee/Zentralbibliothek | Room: UA-131
Postal Address
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Tasks
Counseling and coordination political science
Office hours
By appointment via e-mail

Stephan Fouquet, MA,  joined the Department of International Relations at the Faculty of History and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in October 2019.

Research focus

Foreign Policy Analysis  (esp. decision-making processes and leadership personality)

Populist agency in foreign policy making

Religion and International Relations (esp. freedom of religion or belief (FoRB))

International Political Economy

Publications

Journal Articles

2025. "Distrustful in Domestic Politics, Self-Confident in Foreign Policy: The Populist Paradox, Domain-Specific Attention, and Leadership Trait Analysis." (with Klaus Brummer) International Studies Quarterly 69 (1) https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf007.

2024. "Beat the elite or concede defeat? Populist problem (re-)representations of international financial disputes." Review of International Studies, online first. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000743.

2023. “Populist Leadership, Opportunistic Decision-Making, and Poliheuristic Theory: Cristina Kirchner’s Decision to Defy "The Vultures".” Foreign Policy Analysis 19 (2) https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orad003.

2023. “Profiling the Personality of Populist Foreign Policy Makers: A Leadership Trait Analysis.” (with Klaus Brummer) Journal of International Relations and Development 26 (1): 1–29, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00270-2.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

2025. “Populism and Foreign Economic Policy.” InThe Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy, edited by David Cadier, Angelos Chryssogelos and Sandra Destradi. London and New York: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003414797-32/populism-foreign-economic-policy-stephan-fouquet

2023. “Populist Leadership, Economic Shocks, and Foreign Policy Change.” (with Klaus Brummer) In Shocks and Political Change: A Comparative Perspective on Foreign Policy Analysis, 101–127, edited by William R. Thompson und Thomas J. Volgy. Singapore: Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-1498-2_6.

Book Reviews

2025. Book review of “Religious Freedom and Populism: The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter It”, edited by Bernd Hirschberger and Katja Voges. Bielefeld: Transcript. International Journal for Religious Freedom 18 (1): 152–155, https://ijrf.org/index.php/home/article/view/351/373.