Research Topics :
Europe of defense / Cold War / Nuclear Deterrence / France – United Kingdom relations / France – Germany relations
| Career – Lecturer in contemporary history – Director of the Centre interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux stratégiques (CIENS) at ENS – Member of the IHMC (Institute of Modern and Contemporary History) – Thesis defended at Université Paris III, under the supervision of Frédéric Bozo: Le grand schisme. France, Great Britain and Euro-Atlantic issues, 1957-1963 |
| Research His research focuses on three main questions. First of all, he will pursue a reflection on the military nuclear fact in Europe, already studied from a Franco-British and Franco-German perspective, by examining the hypothesis of the emergence of a specific relationship between Europeans and nuclear weapons, over and above the deep divisions that have divided them from one another (between nuclear-armed and non-nuclear-armed countries or countries with a neutral tradition; between pro- and anti-nuclear weapons; between “Gaullists” and “Atlanticists”). His research will also shed light on the role of directorial practices in politico-strategic decision-making, which persist stubbornly within multilateral organizations. Finally, he is pursuing a project to examine the way in which France has been part of the “global nuclear order” since 1945, studying in particular its contrasting relationship with the non-proliferation regime formalized by the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) in 1968. |
| Books Le Schisme franco-britannique : de Suez au veto de 1963, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023. https://books.openedition.org/pur/190621 France, Germany and Nuclear Deterrence. Quarrels and Convergences during the Cold War and Beyond, Berghahn Books, 2022 (collective work co-edited with Nicolas Badalassi). Selected articles and book chapters “De Gaulle et Monnet face aux dilemmes nucléaires transatlantiques (1956-1965)”, in Éric Roussel and Laurent Warlouzet (eds.), Jean Monnet et Charles de Gaulle : destins croisés, oppositions et héritages (Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024), pp. 117-139. “Ukrainian and Russian nuclear trajectories since the end of the Cold War: an attempt at periodization (1986-2023)”, International Relations, 2024, 197(1), 93 – 110. “To Adapt to the Cold War Bipolar Order? Or to Challenge It? Macmillan and de Gaulle’s Rift in the Face of the Second Berlin Crisis”, Cold War History, vol. 18, no. 4 (2018), pp. 465-83 “Londres et la proposition gaullienne de ‘directoire nucléaire tripartite’ de septembre 1958 : réception, conséquences, symbole”, in Jurgensen, Céline and Mongin, Dominique (eds.), Résistance et Dissuasion – Des origines du programme nucléaire français à nos jours, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2018, pp. 235-258 |
