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David Cadier
Associate Researcher
Center for International Studies (CERI)
Duration: from 01 April 2023 to 31 August 2025
david.cadier@sciencespo.frResearch Interest(s): Conceptual and comparative analysis of foreign policy; sociology of foreign policy elites; populism, politicisation and polarisation; uses of the past in foreign policy; discursive approaches in international relations and in the analysis of public action; EU external action
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Russia
Country(ies): Russian Federation, France, Poland, Czechia, Ukraine
Language(s): French, English, Dutch, Czech, Italian
Biography
David Cadier is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and an Associate researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre for International Studies (CERI). At Sciences Po, he is the Principal Investigator for the University Consortium, an academic partnership on West-Russia relations.
Previously, he was a contracted researcher at CERI and a Teaching Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE). He also held visiting positions at, inter alia, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, SAIS Johns Hopkins University, the Prague Institute of International Affairs and the Polish Institute of International Affairs.
Thesis topic
République tchèque : perceptions et politiques de sécurité, sous la direction de Jacques Rupnik
Teaching
University of Groningen, Netherlands:
• ‘Theories of International Relations’; Bachelor and Pre-Master
• ‘European Politics in a Global Perspective’, Masters
• ‘Populism and Foreign Policy’, Masters
College of Europe, Belgium:
• 'The National Foreign Policies of EU Member States and EU external action', Masters
Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po, France
• ‘Populism and Foreign Policy’, Masters
publications
Russia’s foreign policy: ideas, domestic politics and external relations (co-edited with Margot Light), Palgrave (Palgrave Studies in International Relations), 2015.
"Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization", Foreign Policy Analysis, accepted for publication.
"Populist Practice and Foreign Policy Common Sense", International Studies Review, December 2023, Volume 25, Issue 4.
"Populist Politics of Representation and Foreign Policy: Evidence from Poland", Contemporary European Politics, 2021, Volume 19, Issue 6, pp. 703-721.
"Populism and Foreign Policy: A Research Agenda" (with Sandra Destradi and Johannes Plagemann), Contemporary European Politics, 2021, Volume 19, Issue 6, pp. 663-682.
"Populism, Historical Discourse and Foreign Policy: the case of Poland’s Law and Justice Government 2015-2017" (with Kacper Szulecki), International Politics, 2020, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 990–1011.
"The Geopoliticisation of the EU’s Eastern Partnership", Geopolitics, 2019, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 71-99.
"Continuity and change in France’s policies towards Russia: a milieu goals explanation", International Affairs, 2018, Vol. 94, No. 6, pp. 1349-1369.
"Eastern Partnership vs Eurasian Union? The EU–Russia Competition in the Shared Neighbourhood and the Ukraine Crisis", Global Policy, 2014, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 76-85.
"Où va le Partenariat Oriental? L’UE et ses voisins européens" [Where is the Eastern Partnership Heading? The EU and its Eastern Neighbours] (with Florent Parmentier), Revue du Marché Commun de l’Union Européenne, 2011, n°552, pp. 597-602.
