Maud Quessard

Maud Quessard, university lecturer, is director of the “Europe, Transatlantic Space, Russia” department at IRSEM, the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School. She holds a doctorate from Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, a degree from Sciences Po, and is a specialist in American foreign policy. She has taught at the University of Poitiers, Paris 2-Panthéon Assas, the IEP in Bordeaux, and Sciences Po Paris. A specialist in American foreign policy, her research focuses on American strategic issues and power competitions, as well as information warfare and influence strategies. She has benefited from the IHEDN research support program, was a visiting fellow in the history department at Harvard University in 2015, and was a laureate of the US State Department's IVLP International Visitor Leadership Program in 2023. She is the author of numerous chapters and articles on American strategic issues for Politique Américaine, Diplomatie, and Orbis.

She recently co-edited “Towards a New International Order?” (Revue de Défense Nationale, Summer 2023) and published “GAFAMs: The Darling Children and Terrible Children of the United States” (Pouvoirs, No. 185), “La politique étrangère des États-Unis face aux crises du XXIe siècle” (Questions Internationales, No. 122), and “Les démocraties et les nouvelles compétitions de puissance face à l'enjeu des technologies militaires” (in Pierre Bourgois, Océane Zubeldia ed., “Les puissances démocratiques et les nouvelles technologies militaires,” Presses du Septentrion, 2024). She is the author of Guerres de l’information et stratégies d’influence. Propagande et diplomatie publique des Etats-Unis depuis la guerre froide (PUR, 2019); she also co-edited with Frédérick Gagnon and Frédérick Heurtebize, Alliances and Power Politics in the Trump Era. America In Retreat? (Palgrave, 2020), and co-edited Les guerres de l’information à l’ère numérique (PUF, 2021) with Céline Marangé.