Accueil>Kévin Gauthier

Thème(s) de recherche : Armée/Défense, Diplomatie, Energie, Environnement, Globalisation/mondialisation, Multilatéralisme, Nucléaire, Organisations internationales, Politique étrangère, Réseaux transnationaux
Discipline(s) : Science politique
Sous-discipline(s) : Relations internationales
Axe(s) de recherche : Ordre international, politiques étrangères, diplomatie(s)
Aire(s) géographique(s) : Espace international
Langue(s) : Français, Anglais, Chinois, Italien
Biographie
Normalien-agrégé, graduate from Henri IV (2014) and Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (2020), exchange programmes at Columbia University (2015-2016) and Cambridge University (2019-2020), part of the OxPo programme between the CERI and the DPIR, Oxford University, ChristChurch College, with Lucas Kello. Appointed as permanent lecturer (PRAG) in political science and International relations (English track) at Sorbonne Paris Nord, and professor in Classe Préparatoire (Blomet).
Interned at the French Embassy in the US (2015), the Security Council UN NYC (2019), UNOOSA Vienna (2023). Cultural service of Maison française d'Oxford (fall 2023). Assistant to former French ambassadors Gérard Araud, Sylvie Bermann; UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kouleba; Premier Président de la Cour des Comptes Pierre Moscovici. Worked at the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in the department of cybersecurity.
Taught the following courses at SciencesPo: Intro to Political Sciences ; Thinking IR Globally ; Artistic illustrations of benevolence in IR ; lectures in Diplomatic Performances at SciencesPo Summer School ; tutor at Louis-Le-Grand and Columbia University, Paris campus. Teaches the class: ‘Forms and representations of the United States Republican Party’ and ‘Expressions of sovereignty outside of territories under national jurisdiction’ at Sorbonne Paris Nord.
Recherche en cours
Coining the umbrella concept of planetary spaces diplomacy, my research fills an academic gap by highlighting the return of state sovereignty: in the global commons and international spaces – outer space, airspace, the high seas and deep seabed, the polar regions and cyberspace, at the turn of the millennium. Despite international legal frameworks designed to guarantee state-free spaces or to open them up to international coordination, this project reveals that planetary spaces diplomacy is state-heavy . Using comparative quantitative and qualitative methodology, this work sheds light on (I) the commonalities, spillovers and spatiosyncrasies of the five planetary spaces genetically linked legal frameworks of planetary spaces, by reconstructing their shared normative genealogy. (II) The struggle for authority, legitimacy and control takes the form of openly expressed arm-twisting and/or can be rooted in the strategic semantic instability of diplomatic discourse. (III) Sovereignty claims also have ethical implications for the preservation of peace and the environmental natural resources. I propose the concept of State Planetary Spaces Responsibility Quotient to characterise states’ behaviour towards planetary spaces.
Sujet de thèse
States in planetary spaces diplomacy: navigating the polymorphic concept of sovereignty at the turn of the millennium, sous la direction de Thierry Balzacq
Publications
• "The challenges of French nation branding: the resistance of an ontologically unmarketable object ?" (forthcoming)
• "Star power drama. Or the showcasing of outer space science technology and innovation." (forthcoming)
