Career
Frédéric Gloriant has a doctorate in history, is a lecturer at the University of Nantes and director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Nuclear and Strategic Studies (CIENS) at the ENS.
His research focuses on international relations and the history of Europe during the Cold War, and more specifically the foreign policies of France and Great Britain, European defence and political and strategic issues in the Euro-Atlantic region.
He defended his thesis at the University of Paris III, under the supervision of Frédéric Bozo, on the following subject: Le grand schisme: Le grand schisme. La France, la Grande-Bretagne et les problèmes euro-atlantiques, 1957-1963, and has published several articles on nuclear issues and European integration.
Publications
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 (co-edited with Nicolas Badalassi).
“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 https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2018.1434509
“Leçons à tirer de la seconde crise de Berlin (1958-1963) à propos des relations nucléaires actuelles avec la Russie et les Etats-Unis”, Champs de Mars, supplement to No. 30 devoted to “La relève stratégique”, Paris, Presses Universitaires de Sciences Po, 2018, pp. 347-355.
“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, p. 235-258.
