Pascal Vennesson

Visiting professor, EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department

Pascal Vennesson (FR) is Professor of political science, Chair “Security in Europe”, at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, in Florence, Italy, and Professor of political science at the University Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, France.

He holds an MA from University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Ph.D. from Sciences-Po Paris (1992). Pascal Vennesson was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control, at Ohio State University’s Mershon Center and a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

His research field is international security, European security and the European Union’s external relations. He recently published “War Without the People”, in Hew Strachan (ed.), The Changing Character of War, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010; “Competing Visions for the European Union Grand Strategy”, European Foreign Affairs Review, 15, 2010, pp. 57-75; “Military Strategy in the Global Village”, New Global Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, 2009; et “Is There a European Way of War? Role Conceptions, Organizational Frames, and the Utility of Force”, (with F. Breuer, C. de Franco and U.C. Schroeder), Armed Forces and Society, vol. 35, no. 4 , 2009, pp. 628-645.

In 2009 and in 2010 he was a team member for the European Report on Development, a major initiative promoted and financed by the European Commission and seven European Union Member States (http://erd.eui.eu). He also served in the French Ministry of Defense from 1999 to 2003 as Director of the Centre d’études en sciences sociales de la défense, where he was responsible for promoting policy-relevant social science research on a wide range of defense and security issues.