Maud Quessard is a senior lecturer on North American civilization, a graduate from Sciences Po, and an American foreign policy specialist. She is currently teaching at Université Paris 2-Panthéon Assas and taught until 2017 at the University of Poitiers and at the Institute for Political Studies (IEP) of Bordeaux. Maud is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Euratlantic Area at the Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School. Her research focuses on public diplomacy, American soft power, information warfare and influence strategies. She was a beneficiary of the research support program of the IHEDN, and a visiting fellow in the history department of Harvard University in 2015. She is the author of Stratégies d’influence des États-Unis : information, propagande et diplomatie publique de la guerre froide à Obama (PUR, 2018). She has published in academic journals Orbis: Journal of World Affairs, Questions Internationales, Annuaire Français des Relations Internationales.
Expertise
- American Soft Power
- United States Foreign Policy
- Information Wars
Selected Publications
- Céline Marangé & Maud Quessard, Les guerres de l’information à l’ère numérique (PUF, 2021).
- Maud Quessard, Frédérick Gagnon & Frédéric Heurtebize (eds), Alliances and Power Politics in the Trump Era : America in Retreat? (Palgrave, 2020).
- Maud Quessard, “Entertainment Diplomacy. An Introduction to Theory and Practice,” In Global Diplomacy. An Introduction to Theory and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
- Maud Quessard, Les stratégies d’influence des États-Unis : propagande, information et diplomatie publique depuis la guerre froide (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2019).
- Maud Quessard & David Haglund, “How the West Was One: France, America, and the “Huntingtonian Reversal,” Orbis: Journal of World Affairs 62:4 (2018): 557-581.
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