Benoît Pelopidas
Visiting Fellow
Benoît Pelopidas is a Visiting Fellow at the James Martin Center for
Nonproliferation Studies for the academic year 2009-2010. He received two
Master's degrees from Sciences Po (Paris, political science and political
philosophy, summa cum laude) and another one from the University of
Geneva (comparative literature, 2007, thesis rated 6/6). He is completing his
Ph. D. in political science in Sciences Po and at the University of Geneva. From
2005 to 2008, he was awarded a three year doctoral grant from the French
Ministry of Defence. In 2009, He was awarded a full grant from the Swiss
National Fund for Scientific Research. His dissertation on the causes of nuclear
renunciation fits into a broader project using political philosophy for a better
understanding of the international order. This includes research on imperial
dynamics and discourses and on the effects of forecasting (proliferation, the
fall of empires and catastrophes).
His work has been published in edited
books and the
Swiss Political Science Review,
Défense nationale et
sécurité collective, Esprit,
les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po,
La revue des deux mondes.
He published When Empire Meets Nationalism. Power Politics in the US and Russia (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009; co-authored with Didier Chaudet and Florent
Parmentier) enriched version of an original work in French (Geneva, Droz, 2007), then translated in Romanian (Chisinau, Cartier, 2008). To follow on the subjects of the book, please see the When Empire Papers.
