Alice Pannier

Alice Pannier is an expert on European security. Her research interests cover security and defense cooperation in Europe, transatlantic relations, and contemporary military interventions, with a particular focus on France, the UK and Germany. A graduate from King’s College London and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Alice received her PhD in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris, with joint supervision from King’s College London. Her work has appeared, inter alia, in International Affairs, the Journal of Strategic Studies, European Security, and Global Affairs. She is currently preparing a book, co-authored with Olivier Schmitt (University of Southern Denmark) on French defense policy since the end of the Cold War (under contract with Routledge) and a manuscript based on her dissertation on contemporary Franco-British defense relations.

Pannier is a an Associate Research Fellow at the Security Studies Center of the French Institute of International Relations, IFRI. She is also a member of the strategy committee of the German Marshall Fund (GMF) Paris. Prior to joining SAIS, she was postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Strategic Research of the French ministry of Defense (IRSEM, Paris). In France, she has also been involved with the Association for the Study of War and Strategy (AEGES), as as secretary-general of the association and as board member of the European Initiative for Security Studies. She is a member of the Nuclear and Strategy next-generation network (Réseau nucléaire et stratégie - Nouvelle génération) of IFRI and the Fondation pour la Recherche stratégique (FRS).