Olivier Yasar de France is Research Director at Iris and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Political Theory at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. His research at Oxford looks into relational theories of power. He works specifically on Benedict Spinoza as a social and political thinker, and threads his philosophical insights into relational approaches to political and international political theory. In empirical terms, he draws upon relational perspectives to study Europe as a political, geopolitical and ecological space—particularly its perceptions of bordering. This work has gradually nudged his research away from analysing polities from the top-down and inside out, and increasingly towards probing them from the bottom-up and outside in.
His book, Geopolitics of Europe (Eyrolles, 2021), has been shortlisted for the prestigious Jacques Delors Prize.
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Entretiens / Europe, Stratégie, Sécurité
14 September 2022
Mort d’Élisabeth II : quelles conséquences sur la société britannique ?
Directeur de recherche à l’IRIS
Notes / ARES Group - The Armament Industry European Research Group
19 April 2022
L’Europe de défense doit conduire à plus d’Europe
Senior Analyst, The Elcano Royal Institute
University Grenoble-Alpes
Directeur de recherche à l’IRIS
Member of the Scientific Committee, ARES Group
Ancien.ne chercheur.se à l'IRIS
Directeur adjoint de l’IRIS
Head of Defence Programme, IAI
Director, The Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University
Ancien.ne chercheur.se à l'IRIS
Professorial Research Fellow, RUSI
Member of the Scientific Committee, ARES Group
