Pascal Vennesson Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

PASCAL VENNESSON is Professor of Political Science at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and strategic studies. He recently contributed to the H-Diplo-International Security Studies Forum Roundtable on Democratic Militarism: Voting, Wealth, and War (April 2016) https://issforum.org/roundtables/8-12-democratic-militarism and co-authored ASEAN’s External Agreements. Law, Practice and the Quest for Collective Action, with Marise Cremona, David Kleimann, Joris Larik and Rena Lee (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is the author, co-author and editor of six books and his refereed articles have been notably published in Armed Forces and Society, International Relations, Journal of Strategic Studies, Review of International Studies, Revue Française de Science Politique (French Political Science Review) and Security Studies. He is a member of the editorial boards of Revue Française de Science Politique (French Political Science Review), Security Studies, Armed Forces and Society and the European Journal of International Security. His current research is on war in the global village and on how generals decide.

Professor Vennesson was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control, at Ohio State University’s Mershon Center and a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Before joining RSIS, he held the Chair “Security in Europe”, at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies. He also taught “Strategy and Policy” for ten years at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)-Bologna Center and “European Union’s Diplomacy, Security and Defense: Instruments and Common Policies” at the College of Europe.

He served in the French Ministry of Defence from 1999 to 2003 as Professor and Director of the Center for social science studies of defense (Centre d’études en sciences sociales de la défense-Secrétariat général pour l’administration) where he was responsible for promoting policy-relevant social science research on defense policy. In 2009 and in 2010 he was a team member for the European Report on Development. He is a Council Member of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS), the most significant international forum of research and scholarship in the social and behavioral sciences dealing with the military establishment and civil-military relations. Professor Vennesson is Lieutenant Commander (Hon.) in the French Navy Citizen Reserve.

He received his MA from the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and his Ph.D. from Sciences-Po Paris.