About Me

I am CNRS Research Fellow, the Deputy Director of the Center for International Studies (CERI) of Sciences Po, Paris, as well as the founding Director of the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS)

My Academic Work

My current research interests revolve around the deep history of war and peace in the human lineage. My forthcoming book, The Origins of War and Peace in the Human Species (Cambridge University Press), addresses the question of when, why, and how we developed our Janus-faced propensity for both war and peace. To do so, it integrates evidence from twelve different disciplines, including biology, primatology, comparative ethology, anthropology, archaeology, criminology, social psychology, linguistics, demography, genetics, neuroscience, and climatology. 

My previous research interests lay at the intersection of international relations, foreign policy analysis and security studies. Specifically, my last research projects have 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.