With a doctorate in international relations, I am a lecturer in political science at the University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne (CRDT) and an associate researcher at the Thucydides Center (University of Paris-II ̶ Panthéon-Assas).
My research in international relations focuses on Western diplomacy in the Middle East, with particular attention to Syria. I devoted my doctoral thesis to Franco-Syrian relations under Jacques Chirac's two presidential terms. The aim was to understand this pivotal period in bilateral relations by mobilizing unpublished documentation, and to propose a broader concept, that of " bilateralisme de levier ". This work was published under the title Chirac, Assad et les autres, les relations franco-syriennes depuis 1946 (PUF, 2017).
Since 2011, through my knowledge of the Syrian terrain, I have been able to produce a set of analyses on the conflict, exploring on the one hand, as an extension of my thesis, French policy on the Syrian crisis, and on the other multilateral negotiations and the political process. With the aim of deconstructing preconceived ideas about this country, I published La Syrie au-delà de la guerre, histoire, politique et société (Cavalier bleu, 2022).
I am also editor-in-chief of Mondes arabes (published by Cairn and La Découverte), an academic journal on the Arab and Muslim worlds.
