Samuel B. H. Faure is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Associate Researcher at Printemps CNRS Research Centre (UVSQ, Paris-Saclay University) and Co-Director of the scientific journal Politique européenne.
Sam specializes in the governance of the European Union, defence policies and the arms industry in Europe. His current research focuses on the relationship between French elites and Europe, the dynamics of differentiated European integration and the issue of Europe's strategic autonomy in the context of the war in Ukraine.
He is the director of the Cybersecurity Analyst Diploma (DAC) and coordinates the scientific partnership between Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Maison française d'Oxford (MFO). He is a member of the CNRS research group on multilateralism (GRAM), contributes to the ANR project on the budgeting of military operations (PolisInWar) and is an expert advisor to the IHEDN.
Sam was formerly a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) and at King’s College London, and a visiting researcher at Harvard University and the University of Oxford (St Antony's College). He holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) from Sciences Po Paris and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Université de Montréal.
His doctoral thesis won IHEDN’s top prize for 2018 and the French European Studies Association’s J.L. Quermonne Prize. He also won the 2019 Pierre Hassner Prize with Thibaut Joltreau and Andy Smith for the best article in strategic studies published in French.
His first book, Défense européenne. Émergence d'une culture stratégique commune [European Defence: Emergence of a Common Strategic Culture], was published in 2016, and the second one, Avec ou sans l'Europe. Le dilemme de la politique française d'armement [With or Without Europe. The Dilemma of French Armament Policy], in 2020.
In 2023, Sam co-edited two collective volumes, The Elgar Companion to the European Union (with Christian Lequesne) and "C'est la crise". Contribution à une sociologie politique de l'action publique européenne ["Whatever it takes". Contribution to a political sociology of European public action] (with Lola Avril and Vincent Lebrou).
He has also co-edited three special issues on the European governance of defence policies and has published over forty scientific articles and book chapters.
Contact: samuel.faure (at) sciencespo-saintgermain.fr
Samuel B. H. Faure 