Pierre-Louis Six

Career

– 2024-2025: Post-doc at DECRIPT
– 2021-2024: Post-doc at CIENS
– Lecturer in history and political science at the French University College of Moscow, Sciences Po Lyon, Université Paris II – Panthéon Assas and Université de Lille.
– 2017-2019 : Deputy Director of the Center for Franco-Russian Studies in Moscow (CEFR).
– Doctorate in history and civilization at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI). Thesis title: “The Party Nobility. Cold War and the shaping of an identity at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1943-1991)”.
– Graduate of Sciences Po and EHESS
Selected publications

« Les diplomates russes croient-ils à leurs mythes ? Les voies/x partisanes d’un changement de régime au sein de l’administration diplomatique de Gorbatchev à Poutine », Critique Internationale, Volume 108, 2025, 79-107.

With Victor Violier, “Penser la réforme de l’État soviétique dans la Perestroïka : entre autonomisation des savoirs sur le politique et dépolitisation des cadres (1985-1992)”, Parlement(s), Volume 39, 2023, 125-147


With Thibaud Boncourt, “Is political science a political affair? Luttes de définition politiques et disciplinaires autour du congrès mondial de science politique de Moscou (1979)”, Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines, Volume 40, 2022, 43-83


“Why advertise a ”bourgeois science” in Pravda? : la tribune de F. Bourlatski “ La Politique et La Science ” publiée le 10 janvier 1965 “, Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines, Volume 40, 2022, 219-238.


With Stephen Anthony Smith, “Penser les cultures des classes populaires au prisme de l’histoire sociale des communismes: un entretien avec Stephen Anthony Smith”, Biens symboliques, Volume 9, 2021


Forthcoming:

“From one war to another: How MGIMO transformed Soviet diplomacy from a system of constant renewal of cadres to one based on social networks (1943-1953)”, accepted by Journal of Cold War Studies.

CIENS team

Frédéric Gloriant

Director – PhD History
Europe of defense / Nuclear Deterrence / France

Stéphanie Braquehais

Project & Comms Manager

Eve Benhamou

PhD History
Middle-East – Nuclear Defense

Marie-Gabrielle Bertran

PhD Geography
Cybersecurity – Russia

Pierre-Louis Six

PhD History
Russian foreign policy – Nuclear issues – Uranium

Louise Matz

PhD History
Nuclear – Deterrence – Air Force

Elsa Novelli

PhD Philosophy
Cognitive Warfare – Attention Economy – AI

Julien Dubois

PhD Student
Ukraine – Nuclear – Non-Proliferation

Our associate researchers

Yannick Pincé

PhD History
Nuclear issues – Deterrence – Domestic policy

Johanna Möhring

PhD Political Science
AI – Military Command

Maïlys Mangin

PhD Political Science
Iran – Nuclear Defense – AI – Information Warfare

Our associate experts

Laurent Prosperi

PhD in IT

Paul Zajac

Partner Relations Coordinator. CEA Associate Expert

Dominique Mongin

History Lecturer, CEA

Guillaume Schlumberger

Associate researcher at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique

Mélanie Rosselet

Diplomat

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Deputy Director at the Strategic Research Foundation

Corentin Brustlein

Political Delegate

Lise Dubois

PhD Student

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