Hugo Meijer is CNRS Research Fellow at Sciences Po, Center for International Studies (CERI, Paris), Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs (CERI), and the Founding Director of The European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS), a pan-European multidisciplinary network of scholars in the field of security studies. He is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), in Brussels, and Honorary Researcher at the Centre for War and Diplomacy, Lancaster University.

His current research interests revolve around the deep history of war and peace in the human lineage. His previous research lay at the intersection of international relations, foreign policy analysis and security studies. Specifically, he has focused on the reconfiguration of American hegemony through the prism of the US-led regional alliance systems in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific since the end of World War II; European national defense policies; and European foreign and security policies in the face of a rising China in the post-Cold War period.

Previously, he was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence), Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London and a Researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM, Paris). Dr Meijer was also a Senior Common Room Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University and a visiting scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Sciences Po, completed his M.A. in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University/School of Advanced International Studies (Washington DC/Bologna) and his B.A. in political economy at the LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali) Guido Carli in Rome. He is French and Dutch, and was born and grew up in Italy.

See his personal webpage: https://www.hugomeijer.com

• Foreign and Defence Policy (MA)
• Introduction to International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis (BA)
• Advanced Introduction to International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis (MA)

Main publications

• "The Origins of War: A Global Archaeological Review," Human Nature, 35(3) (2024), pp. 225–288
   
• “Janus faced: The Co-Evolution of War and Peace in the Human Species,” Evolutionary Anthropology, 33(3), (2024), e22027
   
• "Illusions of Autonomy: Why Europe Cannot Provide for Its Security if the United States Pulls Back," International Security, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Spring 2021), pp. 7–43, with Stephen G. Brooks
   
• "Pulled East: The Rise of China, Europe and French Security Policy in the Asia-Pacific," Journal of Strategic Studies (2021), firstview
   
• "Europe Cannot Defend Itself: The Challenge of Pooling Military Power," Survival, Vol. 63, No. 1 (2021), pp. 33-40, with Stephen G. Brooks
   
• "Covert Balancing: Great Powers, Secondary States and U.S. Balancing Strategies against China," International Affairs, Vol. 92, No. 2 (2021), pp. 463-481, with Luis Simón
   
• “Nodal Defence: the Changing Structure of U.S. Alliance Systems in Europe and East Asia,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2021), pp. 360-388 (with Luis Simón and Alexander Lanoszka)
   
• The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces (Oxford University Press, 2018), co-edited with Marco Wyss
   
• Trading with the Enemy The Making of US Export Control Policy toward the People's Republic of China (Oxford University Press, 2016)

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