Maître de conférences in International Relations at Sciences PoSciences Po since 1988 and lecturer, King’s College in London. Editor-in-chief of Cultures & conflits since the creation of the journal in 1990. Co-editor-in-chief of the International Studies Association journal International Political Sociology. President of the Centre d’études sur les conflits and scientific co-ordinator of the EU-funded FP6 Challenge project (2004-2009).

• Didier Bigo. eu-LISA: The Emergence of a Digital Technology Guild and its Rise in the Field of EU Internal Security. Pedro Caeiro (ed.). European Security, Borders, Crime and EU Law, University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research, pp.11-33, 2025, 978-989-9075-88-7. ⟨10.47907/EuropeanSecurityBordersCrimeandEULaw/01⟩. ⟨hal-05237679⟩
• Didier Bigo. Beyond national security, the emergence of a digital reason of state(s) led by transnational guilds of sensitive information: the case of the Five Eyes Plus network. Ben Wagner, Matthias C. Kettemann, Kilian Vieth-Ditlmann, Susannah Montgomery (Eds). Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology. Global Politics, Law and International Relations, 2nd edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.35-53, 2025, Research Handbooks in Human Rights series. ⟨hal-04928819⟩
• Didier Bigo. Digital Controls, Mobility and Surveillance; the Social Universe of ‘Reasonable Suspicion’ and its Different Guilds. Maria Bergström and Valsamis Mitsilegas (eds). EU Law in the Digital Age, 19, Hart Publishing, pp.371-388, 2025, Swedish Studies in European Law, 978-1-50998-118-2. ⟨10.5040/9781509981212.ch-020⟩. ⟨hal-04995377⟩
• Didier Bigo, Emma Mc Cluskey, Akos Kopper, Ivan Manokha. Editorial - PARISS (5.2). Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), 2025, 5 (2), pp.113-117. ⟨10.1163/25903276-05020001⟩. ⟨hal-04928907⟩
• Didier Bigo, Laurent Bonnefoy, Mathias Delori, Christian Olsson, Anastassia Tsoukala, et al.. Fighting fire with fire. Mimetic investigations of the “war on terror” and its discursive strategies. Mathias Delori & Christian Olsson (Eds). The French War on Terror. A Relational Approach to (Counter-)Terrorism, Routledge, pp.13-32, 2024, ⟨10.4324/9781003478850-2⟩. ⟨hal-04871863⟩
• Didier Bigo, Emma Mc Cluskey, Jim Johnston, Mathias Delori, Laurent Bonnefoy. Biographical Reflections on Academic Freedom—Part Two. Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), 2024, 5 (2), pp.119-165. ⟨10.1163/25903276-bja10064⟩. ⟨hal-04928873⟩
• Didier Bigo, Jean-Paul Hanon. Counter-terrorism in French politics abroad. The misuse of defense secrecy. Mathias Delori, Christian Olsson (Eds). The French War on Terror. A Relational Approach to (Counter-)Terrorism, Routledge, pp.101-118, 2024, ⟨10.4324/9781003478850-5⟩. ⟨hal-04928798⟩
• Didier Bigo. The Future Perfect of Suspicion and Prediction as a Dispositive of Security Today? The Legacy of Foucault (1977). Foucault Studies, 2024, 36, pp.73-106. ⟨10.22439/fs.i36.7236⟩. ⟨hal-04687236⟩
• Didier Bigo, Akos Kopper, Emma Mc Cluskey, Elspeth Guild, Nicholas de Genova, et al.. Biographical Reflections On Academic Freedom—Part One. Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), 2024, 5 (1), pp.5-37. ⟨10.1163/25903276-bja10058⟩. ⟨hal-04680928⟩
• Didier Bigo, Emma Mc Cluskey, Félix Tréguer (Dir.). Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity. Routledge, 311 p., 2023, New Intelligence Studies, 9781032406541. ⟨10.4324/9781003354130⟩. ⟨hal-04298844⟩
• Jean Paul Hanon, Didier Bigo. Data Collaboration: the Aftermath of Operation Sirli. Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), 2023, 4 (2), pp.1-14. ⟨10.1163/25903276-bja10050⟩. ⟨hal-04680939⟩
• Didier Bigo, Stefan Salomon. Passengers Name Records and Security. Origins, transnational trajectories, and current dilemmas. 2023, ⟨10.17176/20230509-163317-0⟩. ⟨hal-04093900⟩
• Michaël Laref, Laure Laref, Laure Laref, Michaël Laref, Olivier Aïm, et al.. Direction colloque Surveillance (35 intervenants), L. Laref, M. Laref. L. Laref, M. Laref (dir.), Surveillance, Colloque des 6 et 7 avril 2023, organisé à la Faculté de droit de l'UCLille. Colloque organisé dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche INES, en partenariat avec les éditions Dalloz, les revues AJ Pénal Dalloz et Dalloz iP/iT, le Ministère de la Justice-Ecole Nationale d’Administration Pénitentiaire, le Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Appliquée au champ Pénitentiaire (CIRAP), l’Institut des Hautes Etudes du Ministère de l’Intérieur (IHEMI) et avec le soutien du Centre de Recherche sur les Relations entre les Risques et le Droit (C3RD), l'UCLille, la Fondation de la catho, la région Haut-de-France. 35 intervenants., Apr 2023, Lille, France. ⟨hal-04349488⟩
• Didier Bigo. Grands débats dans un petit monde. Bis repetita. Recherches Internationales, 2023, n° 125 (janvier-mars 2023), pp.121-140. ⟨hal-04059668⟩
• Didier Bigo. The Digitalisation of Border Controls and their Corporate Actors. Mary Bosworth and Lucia Zedner (Eds). Privatising Border Control. Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State, Oxford University Press, 2022, 9780192857163. ⟨hal-03967365⟩
• Didier Bigo, Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet. Genèse, développement et apories des politiques de déradicalisation en Europe. Juliette Galonnier, Stéphane Lacroix, Nadia Marzouki (dir.). Politiques de lutte contre la radicalisation, Presses de Sciences Po, pp.19-36, 2022, L'Enjeu mondial, 9782724639407. ⟨hal-03783468⟩
• Didier Bigo. Violence Performed in Secret by State Agents: For an Alternative Problematisation of Intelligence Studies. Hager Ben Jaffel, Sebastian Larsson (Eds). Problematising Intelligence Studies. Towards A New Research Agenda, Routledge, pp.220-240, 2022, 9781032071206. ⟨10.4324/9781003205463-14⟩. ⟨hal-03952933⟩
• Didier Bigo, Laurent Bonnefoy, Mathias Delori, Anastassia Tsoukala, Christophe Wasinski. La rivalité mimétique, une matrice de la guerre contre le terrorisme et de ses stratégies discursives ?. Cultures & conflits, 2022, Automne-hiver 2021 (123-124), pp.21-35. ⟨10.4000/conflits.23159⟩. ⟨hal-03632963⟩
• Didier Bigo, Laurent Bonnefoy, Bruno Charbonneau, Marielle Debos, Mathias Delori, et al.. Introduction - Guerre et contre-terrorisme. Cultures & conflits, 2021, Guerre et contre-terrorisme, 123-124, pp.11-19. ⟨10.4000/conflits.23119⟩. ⟨hal-03632960⟩
• Didier Bigo, Jean-Paul Hanon. Le contre-terrorisme comme prétexte. Retour sur l’opération Sirli et la politique française. Cultures & conflits, 2021, n° 123-124, pp.83-93. ⟨10.4000/conflits.23235⟩. ⟨hal-03632973⟩
• Didier Bigo, Laurent Bonnefoy, Bruno Charbonneau, Marielle Debos, Mathias Delori, et al.. Guerre et contre-terrorisme. Cultures & conflits, Automne-hiver 2021 (123-124), 120 p., 2021, ⟨10.4000/conflits.23100⟩. ⟨hal-03633192⟩
• Didier Bigo, Elspeth Guild, Elif Mendos Kuskonmaz. Obedience in times of COVID-19 pandemics: a renewed governmentality of unease?. Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 2021, 11 (3), pp.471-489. ⟨10.1332/204378921X16158113910675⟩. ⟨hal-03384728⟩
• Grégory Daho, Antoine Vauchez, Didier Bigo, Afrânio Garcia, Laurent Jeanpierre, et al.. Les ficelles de l’enquête globale. Lectures, usages et débats autour de la sociologie de l’international d’Yves Dezalay. Cultures & conflits, 2021, 2020/3-4 (119-120), pp.115 - 149. ⟨10.4000/conflits.22296⟩. ⟨hal-03396204⟩
• Tugba Basaran, Monique Jo Beerli, Didier Bigo, Emma Mc Cluskey. Liberté d’expression et politiques du style. PARISS, nouvelle revue de sciences sociales. 2021. ⟨hal-03391898⟩
• Didier Bigo. Interoperability: A political technology for the datafication of the field of EU internal security?. Didier Bigo; Thomas Diez; Evangelos Fanoulis; Ben Rosamond; Yannis A. Stivachtis. The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies, Routledge, pp.400 - 417, 2020, 9781138589919. ⟨hal-03380965⟩
• Didier Bigo, Thomas Diez, Evangelos Fanoulis, Ben Rosamond, Yannis A Stivachtis (Dir.). The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies. Didier Bigo; Thomas Diez; Evangelos Fanoulis; Ben Rosamond; Yannis A Stivachtis. Routledge, 2020, 9781138589919. ⟨hal-03380964⟩
• Tugba Basaran, Monique Jo Beerli, Didier Bigo, Emma Mc Cluskey. Freedom of Expression and Politics of Style. PARISS, A New Journal in the Social Sciences. 2020. ⟨hal-03391909⟩
• Yves Dezalay, Didier Bigo, Antonin Cohen. Investigating the Internationalisation of State Nobility: "A Reflexive Return to Double Game Strategies". Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), 2020, 1 (1), pp.103-116. ⟨10.1163/25903276-bja10006⟩. ⟨hal-03396208⟩
• Monique Jo Beerli, Emma Mc Cluskey, Didier Bigo, Tugba Basaran. Editorial - PARISS. Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), 2020, 1 (1), pp.1 - 8. ⟨10.1163/25903276-00101001⟩. ⟨hal-03385886⟩
• Monique Jo Beerli, Emma Mc Cluskey, Didier Bigo, Tugba Basaran. The Art of Writing Social Sciences: Disrupting the Current Politics of Style. Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), 2020, 1 (1), pp.9 - 38. ⟨10.1163/25903276-bja10008⟩. ⟨hal-03380886⟩
• Didier Bigo. Covid-19 tracking apps, or: how to deal with a pandemic most unsuccessfully. 2020. ⟨hal-03391938⟩
• Didier Bigo. The socio-genesis of a guild of “digital technologies” justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes: a reframing of the field of security professionals?. International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 2020, Special Issue on: Freedom, Technology, Surveillance: Paradoxes in the Making, 6 (1/2), pp.74 - 92. ⟨10.1504/IJMBS.2020.10030062⟩. ⟨hal-03585713⟩
• Didier Bigo, Lina Ewert, Elif Mendos Kuşkonmaz. The Interoperability Controversy or How to Fail Successfully: Lessons from Europe. International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 2020, Special Issue on Freedom, Technology, Surveillance: Paradoxes in the Making, 6 (1-2), pp.93-114. ⟨10.1504/IJMBS.2020.108687⟩. ⟨hal-03566777⟩
• Didier Bigo. Adjusting a Bourdieusian Approach to the Study of Transnational Fields. Transversal Practices and State (Trans)formations Related to Intelligence and Surveillance. Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg; Stefan Bernhard. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge, Routledge, pp.55 - 78, 2020, 9780429274947. ⟨hal-03381006⟩
• Didier Bigo, Laurent Bonelli. « Nous ne sommes pas un Big Brother ! » Autorité et stratégies de légitimation des services de renseignement dans la captation et l’usage des données numériques. Cultures & conflits, 2019, 114-115, pp.199-226. ⟨10.4000/conflits.21180⟩. ⟨hal-02491055⟩
• Leonie Maria Tanczer, Ronald Deibert, Didier Bigo, Marianne Franklin, Lucas Melgaço, et al.. Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia. International Studies Perspectives, 2019, 21, 35 p. ⟨10.1093/isp/ekz016⟩. ⟨hal-03393680⟩
• Didier Bigo. Les modalités des dispositifs d’état d’urgence. Introduction. Cultures & conflits, 2019, 113, pp.7-15. ⟨10.4000/conflits.20710⟩. ⟨hal-03393128⟩
• Didier Bigo, Laurent Bonelli. Ni État de droit, ni État d’exception. L’état d’urgence comme dispositif spécifique ? Introduction. Cultures & conflits, 2019, 2018/4 (112), pp.7-14. ⟨10.4000/conflits.20490⟩. ⟨hal-02491089⟩
• Laurent Bonelli, Didier Bigo. Digital data and the transnational intelligence space. Didier Bigo; Engin Isin; Evelyn Ruppert. Data Politics. Worlds, Subjects, Rights, Routledge, pp.100-122, 2019, 9781138053250. ⟨10.4324/9781315167305-6⟩. ⟨hal-03393719⟩
• Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, Evelyn Ruppert (Dir.). Data Politics. Worlds, Subjects, Rights. Didier Bigo; Engin Isin; Evelyn Ruppert. Routledge, pp.294, 2019, Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology, 9781138053250. ⟨hal-03385170⟩
• Didier Bigo. Shared secrecy in a digital age and a transnational world. Intelligence and National Security, 2019, 34 (3), pp.379-394. ⟨10.1080/02684527.2019.1553703⟩. ⟨hal-03952881⟩
• Didier Bigo. Beyond national security, the emergence of a digital reason of state(s) led by transnational guilds of sensitive information: the case of the Five Eyes Plus network. Ben Wagner; Matthias Kettemann; Kilian Vieth. Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.33 - 52, 2019, 9781785367717. ⟨hal-03393805⟩
• Didier Bigo. La France en guerre ?. Benoît Pelopidas; Frédéric Ramel. L'Enjeu mondial. Guerres et conflits armés au XXIe siècle, Presses de Sciences Po, pp.227 - 236, 2018, 9782724623055. ⟨hal-03393848⟩
• Samy Cohen, Nonna Mayer, Emiliano Grossman, Didier Bigo, Colin Hay, et al.. Evaluer le "peer reviewing" dans les revues de langue anglaise. 2018, 12 p. ⟨hal-04740153⟩
• Didier Bigo. Dramaturgy of suspicion and the emergence of a transnational guild of extraction of information by torture at a distance. Didier Bigo; Elspeth Guild; Didier Bigo; Mark Gibney. Extraordinary Rendition. Addressing the Challenges of Accountability, Routledge, pp.30 - 52, 2018, 9780815387800. ⟨hal-03393980⟩
• Elspeth Guild, Didier Bigo, Mark Gibney. Extraordinary Rendition. Routledge, pp.315, 2018, Routledge studies in human rights, 9780815387800. ⟨hal-01812233⟩
• Didier Bigo. Cambridge Analytica : scientifiques ou alchimistes contemporains ?. 2018. ⟨hal-03392828⟩
• Didier Bigo, Emma Mc Cluskey. What is a PARIS Approach to (In)securitisation? Political Anthropological Research for International Sociology. Alexandra Gheciu; William Wohlforth. The Oxford Handbook of International Security, Oxford University Press, 2018, 9780198777854. ⟨hal-03394042⟩
• Susie Alegre, Didier Bigo, Elspeth Guild, Elif Mendos Kuskonmaz, Hager Ben Jaffel, et al.. The implications of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union for the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. [Research Report] European Parliament. 2018, pp.88. ⟨hal-03440969⟩
• Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, Evelyn Ruppert. Data politics. Big Data & Society, 2017, 4 (2), ⟨10.1177/2053951717717749⟩. ⟨hal-03574146⟩
• Didier Bigo, Sergio Carrera, Elspeth Guild. Method in Trump’s madness?. 2017. ⟨hal-03392927⟩
• Didier Bigo, Sergio Carrera, Elspeth Guild. Trump’s Travel Bans: Harvesting personal data and requiem for the EU-US Privacy Shield. CEPS Policy Insights, 2017, 2017/13, pp.1 - 7. ⟨hal-03458772⟩
• Philippe Bonditti, Didier Bigo, Frédéric Gros. Foucault and the modern international. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.376, 2017, The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, 9781349950980. ⟨hal-03222766⟩