christian.lequesne
Christian Lequesne, holds BA and MA degrees from Sciences Po Strasbourg and the College of Europe, Bruges. He then got his Ph.D. in political science and his Habilitation in Sciences Po Paris (Supervisor: Professor Alfred Grosser). Assistant, Department of Political and Administrative Studies of the College of Europe (1986-1988). Research fellow and then Professor at Sciences Po since 1988, he was deputy director of CERI from 2000 to 2003, and director of CERI from 2009 to 2013. Director of the Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) in Prague from 2004 to 2006, LSE-Sciences Po Alliance Professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics from 2006 to 2008, member and vice-president of the Board of Directors of Sciences Pofrom 2007 to 2013. He is a regular visiting professor at the School of Government of LUISS University and the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.
Co-Founder and Co-Chief Editor with Prof. Christopher Hill (Cambridge) of European Review of International Studies (Brill), member of the international adversory board of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Journal of European Integration; Politics in Central Europe, Politique européenne.
Member of the evaluation committee of the European Research Council (ERC); member of scientific council of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
Regular columnist in the daily newspaper Ouest France. Was awarded the F. Palacky social sciences medal by the Czech Academy of Sciences and Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques.
Ph.D under my supervision: Louis Baudrin, Salih Bora, Léonard Colomba-Petteng, Augustin Normand, Earl Wang.
Ph.D completed: Philippe Rivaud (European Commission, Brussels), Emiliano Grossmann (Associate Professor, Paris), Sabine Saurugger (Director, Sciences Po Grenoble), Damien Helly (Consultant, Brussels), Isabelle Bruno (Lecturer,Lille), Elizabeth Sheppard (Lecturer, Tours), Stephan Davidshoffer (Lecturer, Geneva). Samuel Faure (Lecturer, Saint-Germain-en-Laye), Charles Sitzenstuhl (Deputy at French National Assembly), Anja Thomas (Fellow, EUI Florence), Alex Issa (Professor, ESSEC), Louis-Simon Boileau, Gabriel Castillo (Consultant, Paris), Catharine Damron, Yang Di.
Habilitation Works completed: Christopher Bickerton (Reader, Cambridge), Thierry Chopin (Special Adviser, Institut Jacques Delors), Elsa Tulmets (Marc Bloch Center), Laure Delcour (Senior Lecturer, Sorbonne nouvelle), Michal Onderco (Associate Professor, University of Rotterdam).
The Elgar Companion to the European Union (eds), Edward Elgar, 2023.
Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World. Actors of State Diplomacy (ed.), The Hague, Brill, 2022.
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Teaching
Sciences Po
The European Union as an External Actor (master)
Networks and Diplomacy (master)
Diplomatic Practices in the World (master)
The Geopolitics of the European Union (master)LUISS University, Roma
Negotiation and decision in the European Union (master)Diplomatische Akademie, Vienna
Contemporary Diplomatic Practices (master) -
Web
Le diplomate, le militaire et l'espion (groupe de recherche)
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Languages
English, German, French
Ethnographie du Quai d’Orsay. Les pratiques des diplomates français, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2017, 255 p. (réédition collection Biblis poche 2020).
[direction avec Hugo Meijer] La politique étrangère. Approches disciplinaires, Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018.
[direction avec Simon Bulmer] The Member states of the European Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press, The new European series, 2020, 468 p.
La puissance par l’image. Les Etats et leur diplomatie publique (dir.), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2021, 203 p.
Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World. Actors of State Diplomacy (dir.), The Hague, Brill, Diplomatic Studies, 2022, 398 p.
« France: A European Middle Power with Still a Global Ambition », in Brian McKercher (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft, Abingdon, Routledge, 2022, pp. 82- 91.
[avec Thierry Chopin] « Disintegration Reversed: Brexit and the Cohesiveness of the 27 », Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 29, n°3, 2021, pp. 419-431.
« La diaspora française de Londres à l’heure du Brexit », Etudes du CERI, n° 250, juillet 2020.
[avec Anja Thomas] « L’Allemagne, le Bundestag et le Parlement européen : Du Traité de Maastricht au Traité de Lisbonne », Relations Internationales, n°184, 2020/4, pp. 55-72.
« Populist governments and career diplomats in the EU: the challenge of political capture », Comparative European Politics, Vol. 19, n°6, 2021, pp. 779-795.
