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Benoît Pelopidas, Ph.D.

Sciences Po – USPC, Chair of Excellence in Security Studies

And affiliate, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University

E-mail: benoit.pelopidas@sciencespo.fr

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Sept. 2016 – Sept. 2017 Visiting Fellow, Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security

Sept 2012-August 2016 Lecturer in International Relations, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol. (Tenure granted in 2013)

Sept 2012- Affiliate, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

INTERNATIONAL PRIZES AND AWARDS

2018 Swedish Pugwash Annual Lecture, Stockholm. 29 May

2017 Chapman Annual Lecture, Department of Politics and IR, University of Auckland, NZ

2016 British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award.

2011 Best Dissertation in International Studies in Switzerland for the year 2010 – Swiss Network of International Studies

2011 Best Graduate Paper of 2010 from the International Studies Association – International Security Studies Section

2010 “Outstanding Student Essay Prize” – McElvany Nonproliferation Essay Competition

2009 Best article of the year in the Swiss Political Science Review

GRANTS

2019-2021 Mentor of Dr Kjolv EGELAND’s Marie Curie Fellowip (€184707)

2018-2023 European Research Council Starting Grant: PI of NUCLEAR, €1,5 million

2018-2022 ANR Young Researcher Grant (€253000): VULPAN. Political vulnerabilities in the nuclear age.

2016-2019 USPC Chair of Excellence Grant (€378000)

2015-2017 British Academy’s Newton Advanced Fellowship on “Global Nuclear Vulnerability: the effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis on British, French and Brazilian nuclear policies”. Co-PI with Professor Carlo Patti, £ 74000.

2014 £ 16747 for the oral history of the Black Brant 1995 – ESRC Impact Acceleration Account of the University of Bristol, Chatham House and a private donor.

PUBLICATIONS

Co-authored Book

When Empire Meets Nationalism. Power Politics in the US and Russia, updated and extended version with a new afterword, Aldershot, Ashgate, October 2009 (with Didier Chaudet and Florent Parmentier).

o Imperiul în Oglindă. Strategii de mare putere în Statele Unite şi în Rusia, Romanian translation from the French by Gabriela Şiklovan, Chisinau, Cartier, 2008

o Published as L’Empire au miroir. Stratégies de puissance aux Etats-Unis et en Russie, Genève, Droz, 2007

Edited book

Guerres et conflits armés au XXIème siècle. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, October 2018 (co-edited with Frédéric Ramel).

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

« Que faire des interventions militaires dans le champ académique ? Réflexions sur la nécessaire distinction entre expertise stratégique et savoir académique. » avec Mathias Delori, Marielle Debos, Thibault Boncourt and Christophe Wasinski, 20-21 [« What to make of military interventions in academia? On the necessary distinction between strategic expertise and scholarship » formerly known as Vingtième Siècle], forthcoming.

“Correspondence. New era or new error? Technology and the Future of Deterrence”, International Security, 43(3), Winter 2018-19, pp. 190-3 [with Ryan Snyder]

“The unbearable lightness of luck. Three sources of overconfidence in the controllability of nuclear crises” European Journal of International Security 2:2, July 2017: 240-262

“Nuclear weapons scholarship as a case of self-censorship in security studies”, Journal of Global Security Studies 1(4), November 2016: 326-336

“Pour une histoire transnationale des catégories de la pensée nucléaire”, Stratégique, 108, April 2015, pp. 109-121

“Les émergeants et la prolifération nucléaire. Une illustration des biais téléologiques en relations internationales”, Critique Internationale n°56, September 2012, pp. 57-74

“French Nuclear Idiosyncrasy. How it affects French nuclear policies towards the UAE and Iran”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 25(1), March 2012, pp. 143-169

“Tout empire. Ou comment ce concept a perdu sa spécificité et pourquoi il est urgent de la restaurer”, Revue européenne des sciences sociales (European Journal of Social Sciences) n°147, Fall 2011, pp. 111-133

“The Oracles of Proliferation. How Experts Maintain a Biased Historical Reading that Limits Policy Innovation”, Nonproliferation Review, vol. 18 n°1, March 2011, pp. 297-314

“La couleur du cygne sud-africain. Le rôle des surprises dans l’histoire nucléaire et les effets d’une amnésie partielle”, Annuaire Français des Relations Internationales, X, 2010, pp. 683-694

“Du fatalisme en matière de prolifération nucléaire. Retour sur une representation opiniatre”, Swiss Political Science Review vol.15 n°2, summer 2009, pp. 281-316

o Translated and republished in English in the World Political Science Review, May 2010.

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters published with University Presses

“The birth of nuclear eternity” in Jenny Andersson and Sandra Kemp (eds), The Future: interdisciplinary perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019

“The Nuclear Straitjacket: American Extended Deterrence and Nonproliferation” in Stéfanie von Hlatky and Andreas Wenger (eds), The Future of Extended Deterrence: NATO and Beyond. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2015, pp. 73-106

Work under review

“Power and scholarly responsibility at the end of the world(s)”, under review by International Theory

Special issue of Cold War History on “French Nuclear History and politics”, 4 papers out of 6 submitted. Complete submission expected in August 2019 [I edit the issue, write an intro and a co-authored essay]

Global Nuclear Vulnerability. A global history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Under review by Johns Hopkins University Press, collection on “Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs” edited by Martin J. Sherwin.

I wrote the introduction and the chapter on France, both single authored. I am the only editor

Work in preparation

“The Strangelove effect. How The Strategy of Conflict allowed nuclear threat makers not to worry about accidents”. Essay ready. part of a planned special issue of Security Studies on nuclear close calls and luck with contributions from Ned Lebow, Beatrice Heuser and Debak Das based on a November 2018 workshop at Sciences Po. Expected submission: Christmas 2019.

“Probing the priesthood. Nuclear weapons, democracy and intergenerational justice” [with Fabricio Fialho], under review by the British Journal of Political Science, submitted for the Brian Barry Prize

Luck and nuclear weapons. Monograph. Expected submission, Christmas 2019.

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