Team

Biographie

David Cadier is a Senior Research Fellow on European Security at IRSEM. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris. He is an expert on the foreign and security policies of European states and his research notably focuses on Central Europe, European policies towards Russia and Ukraine, and the international ramifications of populism. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed academic articles, policy papers and opinion pieces on these topics and he is the co-editor of Russia’s Foreign Policy: Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations (Palgrave 2015).

David Cadier is currently an Associate Researcher at Sciences Po’s Center for International Studies (CERI) and an Adjunct Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and at Sciences Po’s School of International Affairs (PSIA). He is also a Principal Investigator for the University Consortium, an academic partnership on West-Russia relations reuniting the universities of Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, and Sciences Po. Before joining IRSEM, David held the positions of Assistant Professor of International Relations (tenured) at the University of Groningen (2021-2024), Contracted Researcher at CERI (2018-2021), and Teaching Fellow in International Strategy and Diplomacy at the London School of Economics (2012-2015). He was able to develop a comprehensive vision of security dynamics and national contexts in the Euro-Atlantic region thanks to these experiences and to several prolonged research stays across Europe and in the US: at the Prague Institute of International Relations (IIR), the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Boston), the Centre of Transatlantic Relations at SAIS Johns Hopkins University (Washington DC), the Finnish Institute for International Affairs (FIIA), the Polish Institute for International Affairs (PISM), and the Centre for the Governance of Change at IE University (Madrid).     

 

Publications

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES :

• “La Mue géopolitique de l’UE: Fabrique et évolution des politiques européennes à l’égard de l’Ukraine (2009-2022)”, Revue Française de Sciences Politiques, 73(6), à paraître décembre 2024
• "Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization", Foreign Policy Analysis, 20(1), 2024
• “Populist Practices and Foreign Policy Common Sense”, New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations (Forum), International Studies Review, 25(4), 2023
• “Populist Politics of Representation and Foreign Policy: Evidence from Poland”, Comparative European Politics, 19(6), 2021
• “Populism and Foreign Policy: A Research Agenda” (with Sandra Destradi and Johannes Plagemann), Comparative European Politics, 19(6), 2021
• “Populism, Historical Discourse and Foreign Policy: the case of Poland’s Law and Justice Government 2015-2017” (with Kacper Szulecki), International Politics, 57(6), 2020
• “The Geopoliticisation of the EU’s Eastern Partnership”, Geopolitics, 24(1), 2019
• “Continuity and Change in France’s policies towards Russia: a milieu goals explanation”, International Affairs, 94(6), 2018
• “Eastern Partnership vs Eurasian Union? The EU–Russia Competition in the Shared Neighbourhood and the Ukraine Crisis”, Global Policy, 5(1) 2014

POLICY PAPERS : 

• “How France and Central Europe are Converging on Security”, Carnegie Europe, 27 February 2024
• "France's Policy Shift on Ukraine's NATO Membership" (with Martin Quencez), War on the Rocks, 10 August 2023
• “Guerre en Ukraine : L’Europe centrale n’a pas constitué un bloc uni, homogène et cohésif dans son attitude à l’égard de la Russie”, Le Monde, 23 November 2022
• “Russia and France’s Right”, Foreign Affairs, November 2016
• “Detour or direction? The Europeanisation of France’s policies towards Russia”, FIIA Briefing Paper 195, The Finnish Institute for International Affairs, May 2016.
• “Pologne: les contraintes géopolitiques”, Questions Internationales, September 2014, No. 69
• The Geopolitics of Eurasian Economic Integration (ed.), LSE IDEAS Special Report 19, June 2014
• “Après le retour à l’Europe: convergences et contrastes dans les politiques étrangères des pays d’Europe centrale”, Politique Etrangère, September 2012, No. 3