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Didier Bigo
MCU Professor Sciences Po
didier.bigo@conflits.org

MCU (maître de conferences) in International Relations at Sciences Po since 1988 and lecturer, King’s College in London. Editor-in-chief of Cultures et conflits since the creation of the journal in 1990.
Co-editor-in-chief of the International Studies Association journal International Political Sociology. President of the Centre d’Etudes sur les Conflits and scientific co-ordinator of the EU-funded FP6 Challenge project.
For a complete CV, see: http://ecoledoctorale.sciences-po.fr/CV_enseignants/bigo.htm

Teaching
- Sciences Po: “Theory of international relations” (Master’s level); “Liberty and security” (doctoral seminar)

Research interests
- Sociology of mobilization and conflict
- Sociology of the police and the military at the European level
- Theory of international relations
- The relationship between conflict and security (external and internal)

Bio en français

Publications
For a complete bibliography, please see: http://ecoledoctorale.sciencespo.fr/CV_enseignants/bigo.htm
Books
  • The field of the Eu internal security agencies, collection Cultures et Conflits, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2007, 132 p.
  • Illiberal Practices in Liberal Regimes : the (in)security games,  Didier Bigo, Tsoukala Anastassia (eds), Paris, Coll Cultures et Conflits, L’Harmattan, 2006, 204 p.
  • Polices en réseaux : l'expérience européenne, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 1996.
Editorships of books and special issues
  • L'Europe des polices et de la  sécurité intérieure, (dir.), Bruxelles, Complexe, 1992.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
  • "International, Political, Sociology", avec R. B. J. Walker Editorial, International Political Sociology, no. 1 (2007), pp.1-5.
  • "The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security : Mid-Term Report on the Results of the CHALLENGE Project", avec Sergio Carrera, Elspeth Guild, R. B. J. Walker Revue internationale des sciences sociales,  n° 192, juin 2007.
  • "Editorial. Antiterrorisme et société", avec Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Cultures et Conflits, n° 61, 2006, pp.5-8.
  • "Liberté et sécurité en Europe : enjeux contemporains", avec R. J. B. Walker, Cultures et Conflits, n° 61, 2006, pp. 103-138.
  • "La mondialisation de l’(in)sécurité " in "Suspicion et exception", numéro spécial ELISE de la revue Cultures et Conflits 58, Eté 2005, pp. 53-101.
  • "La mise à l’écart des étrangers : le visa Schengen", numéro spécial, avec Elspeth Guild, Cultures et Conflits, 49-50, 2003.
  • "La coopération policière avec les PECO, entre confiance et exigence", Les Cahiers de la sécurité intérieure, polices post-communistes, 41 (3), 2000.
  • "Vers une Europe des polices ?", Revue Française d'Administration Publique, 91, juillet-septembre 1999.
  • "Frontiers, identity and security in Europe, an agenda of research", (avec M. Anderson et E. Bort), Journal of Boundaries Studies, 2, 1999, et dans Martin Pratt et Janet Allison Brown (eds), Borderlands Under Stress, Kluwer Law International, 2001.
  • "Sécurité et immigration, vers une gouvernementalité par l'inquiétude ?", Cultures & Conflits, 31-32, automne-hiver 1998.
Contributions to edited volumes
  •  "Detention of foreigner, States of exception, and the social practices of control of the Banopticon" in Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram, Carl Grundy-Warr, University of Minesotta Press, December 2007.
  • 'The Worst-Case Scenario and the Man on the Clapham Omnibus', with Elspeth Guild in Security and Human Rights, (eds) Benjamin J.  Goold and Liora Lazarus (London: Hart Publishing, 2007), 391p.
  • "The Treaty of Prüm and Ec Treaty: Two Competing Models for Eu Internal Security.", Balzacq, Thierry, Didier Bigo, Sergio Carrera, and Guild Elspeth In Security Versus Freedom? A Challenge for Europe's Future, edited by Thierry Balzacq and Sergio Carrera, pp.115-37. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006.
  • "Liberty,Whose Liberty? The Hague Programme and the Conception of Freedom", In Security Versus Freedom? A Challenge for Europe's Future, edited by Thierry Balzacq and Sergio Carrera, pp. 35-45. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006.
  • "Security, Exception, Ban and Surveillance." In Theorizing Surveillance, the Panopticon and Beyond, edited by David  Lyon, 240. Kingston: Willan, 2006 pp. 46-68.
  • "le visa Schengen et le recours à la biométrie", in Xavier Crettiez, Pierre Piazza , Du papier à la biométrie : identifier les individus, Presses de Sciences Po, 2006.
  • "Protection: security, territory and population” in Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson, and Raia Prokhovnik, The Politics of Protection, Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency, Routledge, 2006, 240 p.
  • "Criminalisation of 'Migrants' : The Side Effect of the Will to Control the Frontiers and the Sovereign Illusion", in Barbara Bogusz, Ryszard Cholewinski, Adam Cygan, Erika Szyszczak (eds), Irregular Migration and Human Rights: Theoretical, European and International Perspectives, Leiden, Martinus Nijhof Publishers, 2004.
  • "Le champ européen de l’ (in)sécurité : enquête et hypothèses de travail", in Michel Fortmann, Stéphane Roussel, Alex Macleod (dir.), Vers des périmètres de sécurité? La gestion des espaces continentaux en Amérique du Nord et en Europe, Montréal, Athéna éditions, 2003.
  • "Reassuring and protecting, internal security implications of French participation in the coalition against terrorism", in Eric Hershberg et Kevin W Moore (eds), Terrorism and the International Order : contesting September 11 and its aftermath, The New Press, 2002.
  • "Border Regimes and Security in an Enlarged European Community. Police Co-operation with CEECs : between trust and obligation", in Jan Zielonka (ed.), Europe unbound : enlarging and reshaping the boundaries of the European Union, Routledge, 2002.
  • "Internal and external security(ies), the möbius ribbon", in Mathias Albert, Didier Bigo, Martin Heisler, Fritz Kratochwil, David Jacobson, Yosef Lapid, Identities, Borders and Orders, Borderlines, Minneapolis, University of Minnesotta Press, 2001.
  • "When two become one: internal and external securitisations in Europe", in Morten Kelstrup, Michael C. Williams (eds), International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration, Power, Security and Community, London, Routledge, 2000.
  • "Liaison officers in Europe, new actors in the European security field", in Sheptycki, Bigo, Brodeur, Gregory, Johnston, Manning, Issues in Transnational Policing, London, Routledge, 2000.
  • "Sécurité et renseignement", in Amiral Pierre Lacoste (dir.), Le renseignement à la française, Paris, Economica, 1999.
  • "Frontiers and security in Europe", in Malcolm Anderson (ed.), The Frontiers of Europe, Pinter, Cassel Academic Publisher, 1998.
  • "L'Europe de la sécurité intérieure : penser autrement la sécurité", in Anne-Marie Le Gloannec (dir.), Entre Union et Nations, l'Etat en Europe, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 1998.
  • "Security, Borders and the State", in Allan Sweedler, James Scott (eds), Border Regions in Functional Transition, Berlin, Institute for Regional development (IRS), 1996.
  • "The European internal security field: stakes and rivalries in a newly developing area of police intervention", in Malcolm Anderson, Monica Den Boer (eds), Policing across National Boundaries, Pinter Publications, 1994.
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