Dr Basil Germond

Academic and Research Career

Basil Germond holds an interdisciplinary MA in International Relations, an M.Res. in International History and Politics and a PhD in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva.

He is Lecturer in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Lancaster University. Peviously, he was Researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Development (UCLan), Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews and Visiting Research Fellow with the Oxford-Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS).

Research Interests

Dr. Germond’s current research interests include the maritime dimension of security, the concept of border and frontier in IR and the European Security and Defence Policy. His current research projects concern the evolution of the concept of maritime frontier in the post-Cold War era, the European policies regarding the projection of security, and the geopolitics of the EU. He is currently preparing a book on the maritime dimensions of European security.

Dr. Germond was elected an ESRI Research Fellow in November 2009.

Principal Publications    

Edited Books and Monographs 

Edited (with Jussi Hanhimäki and Georges-Henri Soutou), The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security (Routledge: London/New York, 2010).

Les forces navales européennes dans le période post-guerre froid (L’Hartmann: Paris, 2008).  

Edited (with André Liebich), Construire l’Europe (Presses universitaires de France: Paris/Geneva, 2008).    
   
Journal Articles (Selection)   
   
‘From Frontier to Boundary and Back Again: The European Union's Maritime Margins’, European Foreign Affairs Review, 15/1 (February 2010), pp. 39-55. [Winner of the 2010 EFAR prize for best published article by a young (under 35) scholar]

(With Michael E. Smith), ‘Interest-Definition and Threat-Perception in the EU: Explaining the First ESDP Anti-Piracy Naval Operation’, Contemporary Security Policy, 30/3 (December 2009), pp. 573-593.

‘Multinational Military Cooperation and its Challenges: the Case of European Naval Operations in the Wider Mediterranean Area’, International Relations, 22/2 (June 2008), pp. 173-191.  

‘Les forces navales européennes face aux “nouvelles menaces” en mer’, Relations internationals, No. 125 (Spring 2006), pp. 45-58. 

Additional publications
   
 (With Eric Grove), Maritime Security in the Mediterranean: European and Transatlantic Approaches, Mediterranean Paper Series 2010 (The German Marshall Fund of the United States/The Istituto Affari Internazionali: Washington/Roma, 2010).

‘Maritime Security Cooperation in the Mediterranean: Towards a Comprehensive Approach’, in Eduard Soler i Lecha and Irene García (eds.), VIII Seminario Internacional sobre Seguridad y Defensa en el Mediterráneo: New scenarios for cooperation (Barcelona Center for International Studies (CIDOB)/Dirección General de Relaciones Institucionales - Ministerio de Defensa de España: Barcelona, 2010), pp. 65-73.

Contact

Dr Germond can be contacted through the Centre for European Security.