CNRS Research Fellow
Centre for International Studies (CERI) from Sciences Po Paris
International relations scholar
Mathias Delori (he/him, born 1978) is a specialist of critical war, peace and security studies.
He completed his PhD at Sciences Po Grenoble in 2008 and his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) at Paris 1 Sorbonne in 2020. He is currently CNRS associate research professor (chargé de recherche CNRS) at the Centre for International Studies (CERI) from Sciences Po Paris. Mathias was also a research fellow or invited professor at the European University Institute in Florence, the Université de Montréal, the Colorado University in Boulder, the Centre Emile Durkheim in Bordeaux and the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin.
Mathias is co-editor in chief of Cultures et Conflits and member of the editorial board of Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS) and Deutsche-französische Perspektiven in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.
He is currently supervising the PhD dissertations of Antoine Younsi and Lou Villafranca.
Research Interests
The reconciliation between France and Germany
On September 4th, 2013, French President François Hollande and German President Joachim Gauck visited Oradour-sur-Glane, a French martyr village of the Second World War whose population was massacred by an SS division during the Liberation. During the ceremony, the...
The Global war on terror
The Global War on Terror has killed or harmed far more innocent people than "terrorism" over the last twenty years. This observation has led some critical scholars to reverse the mainstream question on political violence. Instead of asking how and why some people...
The epistemology of international phenomena
a) The false promises of positivism John Dryzek observed that "positivism is a "a dead duck in the philosophy of science, deader still in the actual practice of science, with a stake through its head when it comes to social sciences". Although the first part of this...
News
*English* Edited volume on “The French war on terror” (Routledge 2025)
This book co-edited with Christian Olsson analyses the French war on terror, covering the French contributions to the US-led ‘war on terror’ and the wars in the Sahel Region since 2013. It argues that ‘terrorism’ and offensive counter-'terrorism' are not separate...
*German* Special issue on French-German relations
This issue of Lendemains magazine, co-edited by Mathias Delori and co. focuses on “Franco-German relations after 1990”, in other words on the legacy of the Cold War on relations between France and Germany.
*English* & *French* Interview with Gabriela Toledo on becoming a social scientist
In this short video, Mathias Delori explains his path to becoming a social science researcher and gives useful advice and suggestions for future social science researchers who are still at the beginning of their career.
