Chercheur
He has been awarded two international prizes for his research and, most recently, a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award in 2016.
He focuses on the construction of confidence in the validity, acceptability and sufficiency of the existing knowledge about nuclear weapons, and their ethical and political implications. Empirically, his focus is on nuclear “close calls” and French nuclear history. He edited a volume on the experience of the so called ‘Cuban missile crisis’ worldwide and lessons learned from it, expected to be published in 2017. His latest essay on self-censorship in nuclear security studies will be published in the Journal of Global Security Studies.
Over the last six years, he has been engaging with policy making elites in the US and Europe as well as civil society groups to advocate innovative nuclear disarmament and arms control policies.
I am currently working on a transnational history of nuclear categories based on correspondence of early nuclear experts worldwide and on a project on the consequences of the so-called “Cuban Missile Crisis” worldwide (with Professor Carlo Patti) and I am completing essays on : - the legacy of Thomas C. Schelling in the nuclear realm ; - attitudes of EU citizens under 30 years old about nuclear weapons ; - US nuclear force structure modernization (with Dr Ryan Snyder). I am interested in supervising research on theory of international security, intellectual history of defence and security issues in France, the UK, the US or among transnational communities
Transnational history of nuclear categories, Theory of international security, Intellectual history of defence and security issues in France, the UK, the US or among transnational communities
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Teaching
- Establishment : Sciences Po, title : Dilemmas of a nuclear-armed world, since ,(level : licence),
- Establishment : Ecole des affaires internationales, title : Security in a Nuclear-Armed World, since ,(level : master) -
Languages
French, English, Spanish
- The Nuclear Straightjacket: American Extended Deterrence and Nonproliferation (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- A Bet Portrayed as a Certainty: Reassessing the Added Deterrent Value of Nuclear Weapons (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Les émergents et la prolifération nucléaire. Une illustration des biais téléologiques en relations internationales et de leurs effets (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- French nuclear idiosyncrasy: how it affects French nuclear policies towards the United Arab Emirates and Iran (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- When Empire Meets Nationalism (Ouvrage)
- Imaginer la possibilité de la guerre nucléaire pour y faire face (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- European nuclear weapons? Zombie debates and nuclear realities (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- The Birth of Nuclear Eternity (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Les enjeux nucléaires discrets mais cruciaux de l’année 2021 (Contribution à un site web)
- Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–1974) (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- What Europeans believe about Hiroshima and Nagasaki - and why it matters (Contribution à un site web)
- Donald Trump Could Lose the Election by Authorizing a New Nuclear Weapons Test (Contribution à un site web)
- Préface - Israël et la bombe. L'histoire du nucléaire israélien (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Power, luck, and scholarly responsibility at the end of the world(s) (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- Que faire des interventions militaires dans le champ académique ? Réflexions sur la nécessaire distinction entre expertise et savoir scientifique (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
