Samuel Faure

Samuel is a lecturer in political science at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a full member of the CNRS Printemps research laboratory (UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay) and co-director of the scientific journal Politique européenne. He is a member of the CNRS research group on multilateral action (GRAM), contributes to the ANR project on the budgeting of military operations (PolisInWar) and is an expert referee at the IHEDN.

Samuel specialises in the governance of the European Union, changes in arms policies and defence capitalism in Europe. His current research focuses on the relationship between French elites and Europe, the dynamics of differentiated integration in the governance of the European Union and the question of Europe's strategic autonomy in the context of the war in Ukraine.

Samuel has been a postdoctoral research fellow at Oxford University (Nuffield College) and King's College London, and a visiting research fellow at Harvard University and Oxford University (St Antony's College). He holds a doctorate in political science (specialising in international relations) from Sciences Po Paris and a master's degree in political science from the University of Montreal.

In 2018, his doctoral thesis was awarded the first prize of the IHEDN and the Jean-Louis Quermonne prize of the Association française d'études européennes (AFEE). In 2019, along with Thibaut Joltreau and Andy Smith, he was awarded the Pierre Hassner Prize of the Association for War and Strategy Studies (AEGES) for their article on the French and British elites of defence capitalism.

His first book European Defence: The Emergence of a Common Strategic Culture was published in 2016 and his second book, With or Without Europe. The Dilemma of French Armaments Policy came out in 2020. In 2023, he co-edited two collective works, 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 (with Lola Avril and Vincent Lebrou).

Samuel has also co-edited three issues of a scientific journal on the European governance of defence policy and capitalism, and has published over forty scientific articles and book chapters.