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Eric Sangar est maître de conférences HDR en science politique à Sciences Po Lille et chercheur au laboratoire CERAPS (Université de Lille). Avant son arrivée à Lille en 2018, il a occupé plusieurs positions dans des institutions de recherche en Europe : entre autres, il a été Chargé de recherches FNRS (IIe classe) à l'Université de Namur, chercheur postdoctoral à King's College London (membre du projet européen INFOCORE), et postdoctoral fellow à l'IRSEM (Paris) dans le cadre du programme Fernand Braudel, financé par la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.  Dans ses recherches, il s'intéresse aux interactions entre mémoires collectives et usages de l'histoire dans les politiques étrangères, à la mobilisation des émotions dans la justification de la violence politique et aux pratiques et aux infrastructures de l'anticipation des risques et des menaces. Eric Sangar est diplômé du Master Affaires internationales de Sciences Po Paris, titulaire d’un doctorat en sciences sociales et politiques de l’Institut universitaire européen de Florence et d'une habilitation à diriger des recherches obtenue à l'Ecole de la recherche de Sciences Po. Ses recherches ont été publiées dans des revues à comité de lecture comme the "Security Dialogue", "Political Psychology" ou "Cultures & Conflits", ainsi que dans plusieurs monographies et ouvrages collectifs. De plus il a co-édité les ouvrages collectifs "Researching Emotions in International Relations: Methodological Perspectives on the Emotional Turn" (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) et "Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State" (Routledge 2023) et "Quantifying International Conflicts: Data on War or Data for War" (Palgrave Macmillan 2025). Sa dernière monographie, "Germany's Grand Strategy: In Search for Lost Resonance" sera publiée chez Oxford University Press en 2026.  

En juin 2025 j'ai acquis mon HDR en science politique, m'autorisant à diriger des thèses en science politique. 
Je serais interessé en particulier par des projets ayant comme objet les interactions entre dynamiques mémorielles en politique étrangère, la pensée militaire, les relations civilo-militaires, le(s) des émotions dans les relations internationales et les politiques d'anticipation des risques et menaces futurs.
Si vous avez une première esquisse de projet (avec problématique et question de recherche), n'hésitez pas à me contacter.

Eric Sangar is a tenured Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Lille and a full member of the research unit CERAPS (University of Lille). He acquired a research habilitation at Sciences Po Paris in 2025 and holds a doctorate in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, as well as an MA degree in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris.
Prior to his arrival in Lille in 2018, he worked in various positions at European research institutions, including as a FNRS research fellow based at the University of Namur (Belgium), as a Research Associate at King's College London as part of the EU project INFOCORE, and as a Fernand Braudel Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM) in Paris. In his personal research, he is studying the links between collective memory and uses of history in foreign policy and conflict discourses, the role of emotions in the justification of violence, and threat anticipation practices and infrastructures. Eric has published articles in various peer-reviewed journals such as "Political Psychology", "Contemporary Security Policy", or "Security Dialogue". He has also authored several two monographs and co-edited the collective volumes "Researching Emotions in International Relations: Methodological Perspectives on the Emotional Turn" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), "Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State (Routledge, 2023) and "Quantifying International Conflicts: Data on War or Data for War" (Palgrave Macmillan 2025). His latest monography, "Germany's Grand Strategy: In Search for Lost Resonance" will be published with Oxford University Press in 2026.  

In June 2025, I have acquired my "research habilitation" and am therefore qualified to supervise doctoral projects in Political Science.
I would be particularly interested in supervising projects dealing with the interactions between collective memory and foreign policy, military thought, civil-military relations, the role of emotions in international relations, as well as the politics of threat and risk anticipation. 
If you have a project idea with a clear research puzzle and a research question please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Personal website / Site personnel:
https://eric-sangar.owlstown.net/

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-sangar-70b4b722

Avec Sami Makki, depuis 2019 je suis le coresponsable de la majeure de Master "Stratégie, Intelligence économique, Gestion des Risques" (SIGR).

Depuis novembre 2024, je suis membre élu de la commission scientifique de Sciences Po Lille.

Entre 2021 et 2024, j'ai aussi été le responsable pédagogique de la filière intégrée franco-allemande (FIFA) avec l'Université de Münster.

J'enseigne des cours aux niveaux licence et master, principales en Relations internationales et méthodes des sciences sociales.

Liste de mes enseignements actuels et passés à Sciences Po Lille:

• International Relations
• Débats internationaux et européens
• Grands enjeux internationaux
• Méthodologie du mémoire de recherche et du rapport d’expertise
• Introduction aux questions stratégiques et à la veille
• Security & Development
• Theories of National and International Security
• Atelier de recherche en relations internationales et études européennes (with Sami Makki and Stéphane Bracq)
• Information Management in the Digital Era (serious game development (with Sami Makki)
• Politiques et défis de l’anticipation (with Sami Makki)
• Démocraties et autoritarismes dans les relations internationales 

• Since 09/2018 Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, member of the research unit CERAPS (University of Lille) 
• 01/2023-07/2023 Research fellow at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin Visiting researcher at the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam (Research for habilitation project on the influences of collective memory discourses on German grand strategy)
• 10/2015 – 09/2018 FNRS Research Fellow at the Tocqueville Chair of International Security Policy, University of Namur (Project on the impact of collective memory on political uses of history in discourses on contemporary conflict, using interviews and qualitative content analysis)
• 10/2014 – 10/2015 Research Associate at King’s College London, Department of European & International Studies. Participation in the international project INFOCORE (Informing Conflict Prevention, Response and Resolution), funded by the EU’s 7th framework programme – Work Package 4 (NGOs as media actors, media sources, and providers of open-source intelligence)
• 04/2014 – 12/2014 Fernand Braudel Fellow, Institut de Recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire (IRSEM) and Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH), Paris (Research project on discursive uses of historical references in media debates on current wars and interventions, using qualitative content analysis)
• 07/2012 – 03/2014 Research Associate / Lecturer at the University of Stuttgart, Department of International Relations and European Integration Member of the interdisciplinary corpus-linguistic research project “Multiple Collective Identities in International Debates on Peace and War since the End of the Cold War”, funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education.

Monographs:

• Germany’s Grand Strategy: The Search for Lost Resonance Oxford: Oxford University Press (publication scheduled for June 2026).
• Diffusion in Franco-German Relations: A Different Perspective on a History of Cooperation and Conflict. Cham 2020: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Historical Experience: Burden or Bonus in Today’s Wars? The British Army and the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan. Freiburg 2014: Rombach (book version of PhD thesis).

Editorship:

• Quantifying International Conflicts: Data on War or Data for War (co-edited with Louise Beaumais, Iris Lambert, Thomas Lindemann, Sami Makki, Frédéric Ramel). Cham 2025: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State: Uses of the Past in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings (coedited with Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hébert, Valérie Rosoux). London 2023: Routledge.
• Researching Emotions in International Relations: Methodological Perspectives on the Emotional Turn. (coedited with Maéva Clément). Cham 2018: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Special issue: „Krieg ohne Heimatfront?“, in: Berliner Debatte Initial, 25 (2), 2014.

Peer-reviewed articles:

• “How military forecasting projects can promote exceptionalist militarism: The French Red Team project and the securitization of the future”. In: Security Dialogue, 26 (3), 2025, 191-210.  
• “Sécuriser l’avenir pour mieux militariser le présent ? Le projet de la Red Team du ministère des Armées français“ In: Cultures et Conflits, 133, 2024, 15-44.
• “L'impact de la fragmentation des mémoires collectives nationales sur la politique étrangère : le cas de la France.” In: Études internationales, 50 (1), 2019, 39-68.
• "How do non-governmental organizations influence media coverage of conflict? The case of the Syrian conflict, 2011-2014" (with Meyer, C. O. & Michaels, E.) In: Media, War & Conflict 11 (1), 2017, 149-171.
• “The ‘Hero-Protector Narrative’: Manufacturing Emotional Consent for the Use of Force” (with Maéva Clément and Thomas Lindemann). In: Political Psychology, 8 (6), 2017, 991-1008.
• “The pitfalls of learning from historical experience: the British Army’s debate on useful lessons for the war in Afghanistan.” In: Contemporary Security Policy, 37 (2), 2016, 223-245.
• ”Die Rückkehr der Heimatfront? Frankreich nach dem 13. November 2015”. In: Berliner Debatte Initial, 27 (1), 2016, 88-93.
• “From ‘Memory Wars’ to Shared Identities: Conceptualizing the Transnationalisation  of Collective Memory”. In: The Tocqueville Review / La Revue Tocqueville 36 (2), 2015, 65-93.
• “The weight of the past(s): the impact of the Bundeswehr’s use of historical experience on strategy-making in Afghanistan” In: Journal of Strategic Studies 38 (4), 2015, 411-444.
• “Défendre Duffer’s Drift : l’influence de la mémoire collective et du régime d’historicité sur le choix des enseignements historiques en temps de crise” In: Temporalités, 21, 2015, http://temporalites.revues.org/3085?lang=en
• “La présence de la Grande Guerre dans les discours : persistance d’une « asymétrie » de mémoire franco-allemande ?” In: La Revue Tocqueville 35 (2), 2014, 119-143.
• “What’s African about 'African Solutions to African Problems'? Exploring Discourses and Practices of the new ‘African Peace and Security Architecture’” (with Fairlie Chappuis and Deniz Kocak). In: Journal of Regional Security 9 (1), 2014, 7-30.
• “The German Bundeswehr after Afghanistan – a return to which ‘normality’?” In: The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs 23 (2), 2014, 27-42.
• “Strategisches Denken in Deutschland nach Afghanistan. Die Renaissance der Technokraten der Gewalt?“ In: Berliner Debatte Initial 25 (2), 2014, 71-89.
• “Editorial“. In: Berliner Debatte Initial 25 (2), 2014, 2-5.

Book chapters and other publications:

• “Civilianiser le champ militaire ou militariser le champ académique ? Le mythe français des War Studies britanniques et l’alternative allemande” (withP. Dixon et M. Delori), in: J. Teboul, M. Thura et A. Drongiti (Eds.), Les sciences sociales face aux armées : critiques, (dis)continuités et nouvelles approches de l’objet militaire (pp. 85-104). Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2026.
• "Introduction: Developing a Comparative Approach to Understand the Impact of Quantitative Data on the Perception and Management of Armed Conflict" (avec Beaumais, L., Lambert, I., Lindemann, T., Makki, S. & Ramel, F.). In: L. Beaumais, I. Lambert, T. Lindemann, S. Makki, F. Ramel, & E. Sangar (Eds.), Quantifying International Conflicts: Data on War or Data for War (pp. 1-20). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
• "How to Teach Data Awareness? Five Pedagogic Principles Based on the Lessons of the DATAWAR Dissemination Activities" (avec Makki, S). In: L. Beaumais, I. Lambert, T. Lindemann, S. Makki, F. Ramel, & E. Sangar (Eds.), Quantifying International Conflicts: Data on War or Data for War (pp. 201-229). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
• Book review "Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis (Edited by Resende, Erica Simone Almeida, Budrytė, Dovilė, and Becker, Douglas)" Perspectives on Politics, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592725101667
• « L'ennemi héréditaire comme maître d'école ? La diffusion des normes scolaires entre la Prusse et la France et son influence dans l'adoption du projet républicain de l'école primaire », in: G. Courty & C. Leconte (Eds.), Transferts, exports-imports, circulations : Quels paradigmes pour la science politique ? (pp. 291-318). Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2025.
• Book review « A Century of Anarchy? War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order. By Hendrick Simon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024 ». Perspectives on Politics, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724001889
• « Pourquoi le projet du RN en matière de politique étrangère est-il si peu débattu ? » The Conversation, juillet 2024, https://theconversation.com/pourquoi-le-projet-du-rn-en-matiere-de-politique-etrangere-est-il-si-peu-debattu-233740
• Book review « Combien devrait coûter une vie ? A propos de : Ariel Colonomos, Pricing Lives : The Political Art of Measurement (OUP, 2023) ». La Vie des Idées, June 2024, https://laviedesidees.fr/Combien-devrait-couter-une-vie
• Book review « How much should a life cost? About: Ariel Colonomos, Pricing Lives: The Political Art of Measurement (OUP, 2023) ». La Vie des Idées, June 2024, https://booksandideas.net/Ariel-Colonomos-Pricing-Lives
• Book review « Bob de GRAAFF, James M. NYCE & Chelsea LOCKE (eds.), The Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, 496 p. » Études françaises de renseignement et de cyber, 2 (1), 2024, 264-267.
• “‘Hurra, wir können’s noch!‘: How NATO’s counterinsurgency doctrine uncovered German civil-military memory fragmentation”, in: E. Sangar, V. Rosoux, A. Bazin & E. Hébert (Eds.), Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State: Uses of the Past in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings. (pp. 186-203). London: Routledge 2023.
• “Introduction: ‘Memory fragmentation’ as a new heuristic tool to grasp the dynamics of political uses of the past in conflict and post-conflict settings” (avec Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hébert, Valérie Rosoux), in: E. Sangar, V. Rosoux, A. Bazin & E. Hébert (Eds.), Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State: Uses of the Past in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings. (pp. 1-16). London: Routledge 2023.
• “Conclusion: Overall findings and implications for the heuristic and normative value of ‘memory fragmentation’” (avec Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hébert, Valérie Rosoux), in: E. Sangar, V. Rosoux, A. Bazin & E. Hébert (Eds.), Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State: Uses of the Past in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings. (pp. 253-260). London: Routledge 2023.
• « Why the Ukraine War Caught Europe by Surprise: Right Numbers, Wrong Predictions? ». Collective publication by the DATAWAR project on Books & Ideas, October 2022, https://booksandideas.net/Why-the-Ukraine-War-Caught-Europe-by-Surprise.html
• « Bons chiffres, fausses prédictions ? Pourquoi la guerre en Ukraine a pris l’Europe par surprise ». Collective publication by the DATAWAR project on Books & Ideas, October 2022, https://laviedesidees.fr/Bons-chiffres-fausses-predictions.html
• “Les engagements violents des femmes : contournements discursifs sous le nazisme et sous l'État Islamique” (with Maéva Clément), in : L. Aubry, G. Patiño-Lakatos & B. Turpin (Eds.), Les discours meurtriers d’aujourd’hui (pp. 77-95). Brussels: Peter Lang, 2022.
• Exploring Practices of Conflict Data Production, Analysis, Dissemination, and Practitioner Reception: Methodological Framework and Preliminary Findings. DATAWAR Working Paper 2021/1 (with G. Anderson, L. Beaumais, L. Carnapete, I. Lambert, S. Makki, F. Ramel). Paris: CERI, 2021, https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/sites/sciencespo.fr.ceri/files/DATAWAR_workingpaper_1_2021.pdf  
• "Die Fragmentation nationalstaatlicher kollektiver Erinnerung und ihre Auswirkung auf strategische Narrative: Legitimationsschwierigkeiten deutscher Außenpolitik seit dem Ende des Kalten Kriegs". In F. Kießling & C. Rothauge (Eds.), Außenbeziehungen und Erinnerung: Funktionen, Dynamiken, Reflexionen (pp. 153-172). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
• Book review “Hélène Miard-Delacroix, Andreas Wirsching (éd.), Emotionen und internationale Beziehungen im Kalten Krieg, Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020“, in: Francia-Recensio 2021/2, https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2021.2.81996
• “La Bataille des Eperons d'Or : une histoire de mythes en compétition”, in: B. Heuser & I. Davion (Eds.), Batailles : une histoire des grands mythes nationaux. Paris 2020: Belin, 127-138.
• “The Enduring Value of Reliable Facts: Why NGOs Have Become More Influential in Conflict Discourse” (with C. Meyer). In R. Fröhlich (Ed.), Media in War and Armed Conflict: The Dynamics of Conflict News Production and Dissemination. London 2018: Routledge, 191-217.
• “Courtrai, the Battle of the Golden Spurs 1302: a history of competing myths”, in: B. Heuser & A. Leoussi (Eds.), Famous Battles and Their Myths. Barnsley 2018: Pen & Sword Books, 121-135.
• “Introduction: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Emotions.” (with Maéva Clément), in: M. Clément & E. Sangar (Eds.), Researching Emotions in International Relations: Methodological Perspectives on the Emotional Turn. Cham 2018: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-29.
• “Of Heroes and Cowards: A Computer-Based Analysis of Narratives Justifying the Use of Force” (with Maéva Clément et Thomas Lindemann), in: M. Clément & E. Sangar (Eds.), Researching Emotions in International Relations: Methodological Perspectives on the Emotional Turn. Cham 2018: Palgrave Macmillan, 179-206.
• “Measuring Transnational Memory? Discovering the Potential of the Corpus-Linguistic Analysis of Historical References in Debates on Current Conflict”, in: B. Mottura, L. Osti & G. Riboni (Eds.), Media and Politics: Discourses, Cultures, and Practices (pp. 330-355). Newcastle upon Tyne 2017: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2017).
• Book review “P. Münch, Die Bundeswehr in Afghanistan: Militärische Handlungslogik in internationalen Interventionen.“ In: Defence Studies, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2016.1222868
• NGOs, Media and Conflict: Methodological Framework (with Christoph Meyer). INFOCORE Working Paper, 2015, http://www.infocore.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/INFOCORE-methods-paper-WP4-NGOs-to-be-published-on-website.pdf
• La présence de l’histoire dans les relations stratégiques : influence inconsciente ou ressource rhétorique ? Note de recherche stratégique n° 16, décembre 2014, Institut de recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire (IRSEM), http://www.defense.gouv.fr/content/download/343711/4847884/file/NRS_n16_2015.pdf
• NGOs, Media And Conflict: Conceptual Framework. (with Christoph Meyer). INFOCORE Working Paper, 2014, http://www.infocore.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/INFOCORE-conceptual-framework-WP4_NGOs-and-media.pdf
• Book review “Théorie du drone, par Grégoire Chamayou”, in: La Lettre de l’IRSEM, 2014 (6), 36-37.
• Book review “The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan” In: Defence Studies, 14 (4), 2014, 425-428, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2014.972105
• “Die Bundeswehr in Afghanistan: Grenzen einer erfundenen Tradition.“ In: M. Daxner (Ed.), Deutschland in Afghanistan (pp. 115-138). Oldenburg 2014: BIS-Verlag.
• “Les relations armées-société en Allemagne” (with Nadja Douglas), in: La Lettre de l’IRSEM, 2014 (1), 6-9.
• “The Past Stimulating the Change? The Use of Historical Experience by the British and American Armies in Iraq and Afghanistan”. In: Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt der Bundeswehr: Auftrag Auslandseinsatz: Neueste Militärgeschichte an der Schnittstelle von Geschichtswissenschaft, Politik, Öffentlichkeit und Streitkräften. Freiburg 2012: Rombach, 355-365.
• “Historical Experience as an Intellectual Resource Fostering Operational Change: The German And British Armies In Afghanistan”. In: Institut de Recherché Stratégique de l’Ecole militaire: L’académie de la boue : Regards croisés sur l’apprentissage des forces armées. Paris 2012: Ministère de la défense et des anciens combattants, 26-39.
• “Fratricide”. In: Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence. Paris: Sciences Po. Access via: http://www.massviolence.org/IMG/article_PDF/Fratricide.pdf  
• “Classicide”. In: Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence. Paris: Sciences Po. Access via: http://www.massviolence.org/IMG/article_PDF/Classicide.pdf  

09/2024 – 06/2025 Sciences Po Paris, France: Habilitation à diriger des recherches (French research degree required for the supervision of doctoral researchers) Manuscript title: “The interaction between political uses of the past and collective memory: Making sense of German grand strategy between the 19th and the 21st centuries”
09/2008 – 06/2012 European University Institute, Italy: Completion of doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof Pascal Vennesson Thesis title: “Using historical experience: The British Army and the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan”
09/2010 – 12/2010: Research stay in Germany, guest researcher at the Collaborative Research Center “Governance in Areas without the State” (Free University of Berlin)
05/2010 – 08/2010: Research stay in the UK (independent research)
June 2009: Postgraduate degree “Master of research”
09/2005 – 07/2008 Sciences Po Paris, France: Graduate studies in International Security
July 2008: MA degree “Master International Affairs – International Security”
 

Member of scientific networks:

• International Studies Association (ISA)
• European International Studies Association (EISA)
• Council of European Studies – CES Research Network on Transnational Memory and Identity
• French Political Science Association (AFSP)

External evaluator for the Franco-German University, EVALAG accreditation agency, and the National Science Centre, Poland.

Reviewer for many academic journals, including International Affairs, Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, Global Discourse, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Review of International Affairs, Perspectives on Politics.

Research methods: Corpus-linguistic text sampling and analysis, qualitative interviews, qualitative content analysis, qualitative discourse analysis.

Computing skills: MS Word, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Endnote, Provalis Wordstat and QDAMiner, MaxQDA

Languages: Fluent command of English, French, German; good knowledge of Italian

Interests : theatre performance, clowning, swimming