Brice Didier

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Brice Didier

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Dr Brice DIDIER completed his doctoral research in political science at the University of Geneva under the co-supervision of Professor René SCHWOK (University of Geneva) and Professor Christian LEQUESNE (Sciences Po Paris), on the EU’s foreign policy and the ad hoc initiatives by informal groupings of the ‘big’ member states, in particular the ‘Balkan Contact Group’ initiative on Bosnia and Kosovo, ‘E3’ on the Iran nuclear issue, and ‘Normandy’ on the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Entitled “European Union Foreign & Security Policy and Big Member States’ Ad Hoc Initiatives: Solving the Effectiveness-Legitimacy Equation”, his dissertation is the laureate of the Global Strategy PhD Prize 2024 awarded by the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) and the Egmont Royal Institute. He conducts a postdoctoral project at SciencesPo’s Center for International Studies (CERI) and the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) focusing on the EU’s strategic adaptation to the US-China rivalry, which follows the research he also conducted on transatlantic relations and foreign policy strategies for which he was awarded the Sergio Lopez Perona memorial prize 2017 and the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)’ Luke Foster Best Article runner-up prize 2022.

At the University of Geneva, Brice DIDIER has been teaching in the Bachelor’s in International Relations and the Master’s in European Studies on international relations, transatlantic relations, European integration, institutions and policies, EU external relations, and research approaches and processes in political science and international relations, and supervised students for their research theses in international politics and EU studies. He has also taught in the Master of Advanced Studies of the Geneva Center for Security Policy and Global Studies Institute, and been invited in various other programmes as a guest lecturer. A former studies officer in International affairs at the Institute for Higher National Defence Studies (IHEDN) in Paris and academic assistant for the Transatlantic Affairs programme at the College of Europe in Bruges (with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston), he has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence for a project laureate of the University of Geneva and Geneva Graduate Institute’s “Doc.Mobility” programme, at the European Parliament Research Service (EPRS) in Brussels, and a Fellow of the Open Diplomacy Institute.

Prior to his doctorate, he graduated from the College of Europe in Bruges (Master of Arts in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies), the Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Master’s in Geopolitics), and Sciences Po Rennes (Master's in European and International Affairs, Master’s in Risk Management, Bachelor in Public Administration). His background also includes traineeships at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and within its network (San Francisco, Amsterdam, Paris, OECD), and the conduct of negotiation and publishing projects.

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Chapitre d’ouvrage

  • Schunz, Simon & Brice Didier (2019), "The European Union’s evolving global role in response to US waning hegemony”, in Massie, Justin & Jonathan Paquin (eds), America’s allies and the decline of US hegemony, London, Routledge, pp. 176-193: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429260124  

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