Professor Thierry Balzacq
Academic and Research Career
Thierry Braspenning-Balzacq is currently Professor of Political Science at the University of Namur, Belgium; he has also been since 2008 Research Director of the Project ‘The EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’ at the Centre for European Studies, Sciences-Po Paris. In addition to a range of visiting academic appointments, he has recently been a Marie Curie Visiting Professor, University of Wales at Aberystwyth (2007-2009) and a research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium.
He holds degrees in philosophy and political science from the University of Louvain, as well as a PhD in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. In the academic year 2003-2004, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government, Harvard University. Prof. Balzacq is a member of the editorial board of the series ‘Géopolitique et resolution des conflicts’, a member of the editorial board of the Belgian Political Science Association and also a member of the editorial team of the journal, International Political Sociology.
Professor Braspenning-Balzacq was elected an ESRI Research Fellow in June 2009.
Research Interests
Prof. Balzacq is a specialist in International Relations, with interests in ‘securitization’, theories of security and European Union policies on migration, border security, internal security and the legal ramifications of these policies.
Principal Publications
Edited Books and Monographs Editor, The External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs: Governance, Norms, Security (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009).
Co-editor, Security versus Freedom? A Challenge for Europe’s Future (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Co-author, Migration, Borders and Asylum: Trends and Vulnerabilities in EU Policy (Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, 2005).
Co-editor, La Révolution dans les Affaires Militaires (Paris: Economica, 2003).
Journal Articles (Selection)
‘The Policy Tools of Securitization: Information Exchange, EU Foreign and Interior Policies’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 46/1 (2008), pp. 75-100.
Co-author, ‘Critical Approaches to Security in Europe: A Networked Manifesto’, Security Dialogue, 37/4 (2007), pp. 443-487.
‘The Three Faces of Securitization: Political Agency, Audience and Context’, European Journal of International Relations, 11/2 (2005), pp. 171-201.
Co-author (with Robert Jervis), ‘Logics of Mind and International System’, Review of International Studies, 11/2 (2004), pp. 559-582.
‘Qu’est-ce que la securité nationale?’ La Revue Internationale et Stratégique, 52 (Winter 2003), pp. 33-50.
‘Security, Identity, and Symbolic Interactionism’, International Review of Sociology, 12/3 (2002), pp. 469-506.
‘Géoscopie de la deuxième guerre du Soudan, 1983-2000’, Stratégique, Vol. 4, No. 80 (2000), pp. 125-149.
Recent Chapters in Books (Selection)
‘Constructivism and Securitization Studies’, forthcoming in Myriam Dunn & Victor Mauer (eds.), Handbook of Security Studies (London: Routledge, 2009).
‘Security Needs and the Protection of Human Rights in the Struggle against Terrorist Violence: The Situation in EU and Turkey’, in D. Sujatha (ed.), Fight against Terrorism: Legal Responses (Hyderabad: Amicus Books, 2008), pp. 113-144.
Co-author, ‘The Hague Programme: The Long Road to Freedom, Security and Justice’, in T. Balzacq & Sergio Carrera (eds.), Security versus Freedom? (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 1-32.
‘Crise et politique étrangère. Les actuers sous pression’, in C. Roosens, V. Rosoux and T. de Wilde d’Estmael (eds.), La Politique Etrangère. Portée et limites du modèle classique (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 151-165.
Contact
Professor Balzacq is a Research Fellow in the Centre of European Security and can be contacted via the Centre.
