Thibault Fournol
Visting Fellow
National Maritime FoundationAreas of Research
- Indian foreign and security policies in the Indo-Pacific
- Indiaâs regional cooperation practices
- Multilateralism and transformations of regional cooperation in Asia
- Strategic and security dynamics in the Indo-Pacific
Education
- PhD Candidate in Political Science, Centre for International Studies â CERI (Sciences Po/CNRS). Doctoral research: « Recomposing multilateral practices in the Indo-Pacific: The Indian approach to regional multilateralism » (ongoing, under the supervision of Delphine AllĂšs and Christophe Jaffrelot).
- Curriculum in Hindi, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations â Inalco (2020 â 2021).
- Master of Research of Political Science/International Relations, Paris Institute of Political Studies â Sciences Po (2017 â 2019).
Experience
- Research Fellow, Foundation for Strategic Research – FRS (since 2022), Coordinator of the Observatory of Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific
- Visiting Research Fellow, Observer Research Foundation (New Delhi, June âSeptember 2023
- Visiting Doctoral Student, Centre de Sciences Humaines â CSH (New Delhi, March â May 2022)
- Rapporteur for Maritime Security & Ocean Governance, EU-India Young Leaders Programme (2023)
- Research Assistant, Foundation for Strategic Research – FRS (2021 â 2022)
- Parliamentary AttachĂ© for Maritime Policy and Strategy, French National Assembly (2019 â 2021)
- Junior Researcher, Research & Forward Planning Section, Centre for Doctrine & Command Teaching, French Ministry of the Armed Forces (2019)
Publications
- âFinding Convergence: Seizing windows opportunities in the EU-India strategic partnershipâ, co-authored with Esha Banerji, Jayesh Khatu & Fanny Sauvignon, EU-India Young Leaders Programme, December 2023.
- âIndia-France Trilaterals in the Indo-Pacific: Imperatives, Interests, Initiatives â, co-authored with Shairee Malhotra (Observer Research Foundation), ORF Occasional Paper, n°421, November 2023.
- âIndo-Pacific lies at the core of India-France tiesâ, co-authored with Harsh V. Pant (Observer Research Foundation/Kingâs College London), Hindustan Times, July 2023.
- âMultilateralisms and minilateralisms in the Indo- Pacific. Articulations and convergences in a context of saturation of cooperative arrangementsâ, co-authored with Delphine AllĂšs (Inalco), Recherches & Documents, FRS, n°08/2023, June 2023.
- âRassembler sans sâallier. LâĂ©volution des exercices conjoints dans la diplomatie navale de lâInde en Indopacifiqueâ [Federating without allying. The Evolution of Joint Naval Exercises in India’s Naval Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific], Conflits, n°44, March-April 2023.
- âLa France, la sĂ©curitĂ© environnementale et lâocĂ©an Indien : perspectives pour la coopĂ©ration franco-indienne dans le domaine maritime â [France, environmental security and the Indian Ocean: perspectives for India-France cooperation in the maritime domain], co-authored with Manoj Babu Buraga (National Maritime Foundation), Note de la FRS, N°38/2022, November 2022.
- âĂvolution des pratiques multilatĂ©rales en Indopacifique : une approche multicouche de la coopĂ©ration rĂ©gionale de sĂ©curitĂ©Ìâ [Evolution of multilateral practices in the Indo-Pacific: a multilayered approach to regional security cooperation], Annuaire français des relations internationales â AFRI, June 2022.
- âLe sens de l’Indo-Pacifique : de l’ambiguĂŻtĂ© sĂ©mantique Ă l’opportunitĂ© stratĂ©giqueâ [The meaning of the Indo-Pacific: from semantic ambiguity to strategic opportunity], co-authored with Delphine AllĂšs, Les Grands Dossiers de Diplomatie, n°53, October 2019.
- âFrom speeches to maps: compared visions of the Indo-Pacificâ, Cartography Workshop of Sciences Po, 2019.