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Christian Lequesne

SciencesPo Paris, CERI, CEFRES, London School of Economics-LSE, LUISS University

European Union, Future of European Union, European Studies and Diplomacy, European Foreign Policy, European Integration, European Policy

Biography

Christian Lequesne is professor of political science at Sciences Po’s Center for International Studies (CERI), where he specializes in European Studies and Diplomacy. He participates in the ESRC project “The UK in a changing Europe” and is Sciences Po’s principal investigator within the H2020 EU-LISTCO project on European foreign policy. 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 & Political Science – LSE from 2006 to 2008, member and vice-president of the Board of Directors of Sciences Po from 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 advirsory board of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Journal of European Integration; Politique européenne. Member of the evaluation committee of the European Research Council (ERC) in 2017; member of scientific councils 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.

Christian Lequesne, born on 26 December 1962 in Vitry-le-François (Marne), is a French academic, Professor of European Politics at Sciences Po and Director of the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI), and Professor at the College of Europe (from 1995). After studying at Sciences Po Strasbourg (graduated in 1983) and at the College of Europe in Bruges (graduated in 1984), Christian Lequesne defended his doctoral thesis in political science at Sciences Po Paris in 1992, under the supervision of Alfred Grosser. He also defended his habilitation to direct research at Sciences Po Paris. Additionally, he was the first LSE-Sciences Po Alliance Professor at the London School of Economics (2006-2008) a chair, founded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the Theseus Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne 2009-2010. He is on the editorial boards or scientific councils of Critique internationale, Politique européenne, and the Journal of European Integration. Christian Lequesne is a member of the advisory board of the Prague European Summit. He attended the College of Europe 1983-1984 (Jean Rey Promotion).

Education

After working as an assistant at the College of Europe in Bruges from 1986 to 1988, Christian Lequesne joined the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI) at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris as a researcher in 1988. Successively research officer and director, he was deputy director of CERI from 2000 to 2003 while being a professor at Sciences Po Paris. From 2004 to 2006, he was seconded to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to direct the French Centre for Research in Social Sciences (CEFRES) in Prague, Czech Republic. From 2006 to 2008, he was appointed Sciences Po – LSE Alliance Professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, occupying a new chair created jointly by Sciences Po and the LSE. From 2009 to 2013, Christian Lequesne was Director of the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI). He has also been a professor in the political science department at Sciences Po Paris since 2015. Internationally recognised for his work, Christian Lequesne has contributed since the late 1980s to the development of European Union studies through his publications and teaching at Sciences Po Paris, the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin, the London School of Economics and Charles University in Prague. Together with Professor Jean-Louis Quermonne, he was responsible for the creation of the European Studies Cycle and the Europe Scholarships at Sciences Po Paris.

Research activities

Christian Lequesne’s work has focused primarily on the European Union: the institutions of the European Union, the modes of production of Community policies (with an original study on European fisheries policy), France’s European policy, enlargement and the Union’s external relations. Since 2013, Christian Lequesne has also been interested in the analysis of foreign policy and more particularly in diplomatic practices. In 2017, he published a book on French diplomats based on fieldwork under the title Ethnographie du Quai d’Orsay. Les Pratiques des diplomates français. Christian Lequesne was a member (and vice-president) of the board of directors of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris from 2007 to 2012, and a member of the board of directors of the Sorbonne Paris Cité research and higher education centre from 2010 to 2013. He was several times member of the Humanities and Social Sciences panel of the European Research Council (ERC). He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He also chairs the Jean-Louis Quermonne Prize in Political Science of European Integration at the Commission for the Study of the European Union (CEDECE). He chaired the research group on “linguistic diversity and French in the European institutions” within the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which submitted a report to the French government in October 2021. Christian Lequesne co-edits with Christopher Hill (Professor at Cambridge and SAIS Bologna) the European Review of International Affairs (ERIS) published by Brill Publishing in The Hague. He is also a member of the international scientific committee of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, the Journal of European Integration and Politique Européenne . Christian Lequesne is a regular columnist for the daily newspaper Ouest-France. He is also the author of contributions to the Debates page of the newspaper Le Monde. He is also a member of the scientific councils of the Robert Schuman Foundation and the Robert Schuman House in Metz. He is also vice-president of the twinning committee (ARCIF) of the town of Fontainebleau and a member of the board of directors of the Association de politique criminelle et de réinsertion sociale (APCARS), which supports the reintegration of people leaving prison. He is a knight in the order of Palmes académiques and holder of the František Palacký Medal in Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In 2011, together with Yves Doutriaux, he was the recipient of the “Better Understanding Europe” prize awarded by the Centre for European Culture.

Bibliography

  • Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World. Actors of State Diplomacy (ed.), The Hague, Brill, 2022.
  • La puissance par l’image. Les Etats et leur diplomatie publique (dir), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2021.
  • La politique étrangère. Approches disciplinaires (avec Hugo Meijer dir.), Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018.
  • Ethnographie du Quai d’Orsay. Les pratiques des diplomates français, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2017, 258 p. (édition poche 2020)
  • The Member States of the European Union (avec S. Bulmer, dir.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, The New European Series, 3nd edition, 2020.
  • Les Institutions de l’Union européenne (avec Y. Doutriaux), Paris, La Documentation française (collection réflexe Europe), 9e édition, 2013.
  • La Politique étrangère de Jacques Chirac (avec Maurice Vaïsse dir.), Paris, Riveneuve éditions, 2013.
  • L’Europe d’après. En finir avec le pessimisme (avec Thierry Chopin et Jean-François Jamet), Paris, Lignes de Repères, 2012.
  • Ethnographie du Quai d’Orsay : Les Pratiques des diplomates français, Paris, Presses du CNRS, 2017, 258 p. 
  • L’Enjeu mondial. Les migrations (avec Christophe Jaffrelot dir.), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2009.
  • La France dans la nouvelle Europe. Assumer le changement d’échelle, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, collection Les Nouveaux Débats, 2008 152 p.
  • La Citoyenneté démocratique dans l’Europe des Vingt-Sept (avec Monika Mac-Donagh Pajerova dir.), Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. Logiques politiques, 2007, 298 p (version tchèque, Demokracie v Euvope, Prague, Prostor, 2007, 265 p.).
  • Partner oder Beitrittskandidaten ? Die Nachbarschaftspolitik der Europäischen Union auf dem Prüfstand, (avec Martin Koopmann, dir.), Baden Baden, Nomos Verlag, 2006.
  • Zastoupeni evropske petadvacitky v evropskem parlamentu [La représentation politique des Vingt Cinq au sein du Parlement européen] (avec Lenka Rovna, dir), Prague, Editions du CEFRES, 2005.
  • The member states of the European Union (avec S. Bulmer, dir.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, The New European Series, 2005.
  • L’Europe des Vingt-Cinq. 25 cartes pour un jeu complexe, (avec Jacques Rupnik), Paris, Autrement, 2005.
  • L’Intégration européenne. Entre émergence institutionnelle et recomposition de l’État, (avec Y. Surel, dir.), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2004.
  • La Politique européenne de la pêche : vers un développement durable ? (avec Catherine Flaesch-Mougin, Danielle Charles-Le Bihan, dir.), préface de Louis Le Pensec, Rennes, Université de Rennes I, Ed. Apogée, 2003.
  • The Politics of fisheries in the European Union, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press and Palgrave, 2004
  • L’Europe bleue, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2001 (traduction anglaise Manchester University Press, 2004).
  • Les Institutions de l’Union européenne (avec Y. Doutriaux), Paris, La Documentation Française (collection réflexe Europe), 1995, 179 p. (7e édition remise à jour en 2008, 184 p.).
  • Region in Europe. The Paradox of Power, (avec P. Le Gales, dir.), London and New York, Routledge, 1998
  • Quelle Union pour quelle Europe ? (avec F. de La Serre, dir.), Bruxelles, Complexe, 1998.
  • Les Paradoxes des régions en Europe, (avec P. Le Galès, dir.), Paris, La Découverte, 1997 (Version anglaise par Routledge, 1998, Londres).
  • L’Union européenne : ouverture à l’Est ? (avec F. de La Serre et J. Rupnik), Paris, Presses Universitaires de France (Coll. Politique d’aujourd’hui), 1994.
  • Paris-Bruxelles : comment se fait la politique européenne de la France, Paris, Presses de la FNSP, 1993.
  • The State of the European Community. Policies, Institutions and Debates in the Transition Years (avec L. Hurwitz, dir.), Londres/Boulder, Longman/Lynne Rienner, 1991.

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