Hugo Meijer is CNRS Research Fellow at Sciences Po, Center for International Studies (CERI, Paris) and the Founding Director of The European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS), a Europe-wide network of scholars that share the goal of consolidating a truly European field of Security Studies. He is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), in Brussels, and Honorary Researcher at the Centre for War and Diplomacy, Lancaster University. Previously, he was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence), Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London and a Researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM, Paris). Hugo Meijer was also a Senior Common Room Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University and a visiting scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Sciences Po, completed his M.A. in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University/School of Advanced International Studies (Washington DC/Bologna) and his B.A. in political economy at the LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali) Guido Carli in Rome. He is French and Dutch, and was born and grew up in Italy. His current research projects focus on US alliance systems in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, Europe-China relations, European defence and security policies, and world history of diplomatic practices.
Expertise
- International Relations
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Security Studies
Selected Publications
Hugo Meijer, Awakening to China’s Rise. European Foreign and Security Policies toward the People’s Republic of China (Oxford University Press, 2022), also available as audiobook.
Hugo Meijer and Marco Wyss (eds.), The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Hugo Meijer, Trading with the Enemy: the Making of US Export Control Policy toward the People’s Republic of China (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Hugo Meijer and Stephen G. Brooks, “Illusions of Autonomy: Why Europe Cannot Provide for Its Security if the United States Pulls Back,” International Security, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Spring 2021), pp. 7–43.
Luis Simón Alexander Lanoszka and Hugo Meijer, “Nodal Defence: the Changing Structure of U.S. Alliance Systems in Europe and East Asia,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2021), pp. 360-388
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