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Aurélie received her Ph.D. in contemporary history from Princeton University in 2008. She earned her licence ès lettres from the University of Lausanne and an M.A. in international relations from Stanford University. She has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and she is currently a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the Florence-based European University Institute.

Her research interests include security issues, with an emphasis on transatlantic relations, and European integration, particularly its institutional, political, cultural and foreign policy aspects. Her Ph.D. thesis (“Re-envisioning Europe: France, America and the Arab world, 1973–1974”) analyzes France’s European policy at a critical juncture: the first oil crisis and the transition from Gaullist rule to a Centrist presidency. Her new research project (“Making Europeans: The Transformative Powers of the European Parliament, 1969–1986”) explores the role of the European Parliament in fostering European unification and in the emergence of a transnational political space.

Selected Publications (last updated: February 2010)

Monographs

Building a Political Europe? France, Europe and the World During the Pompidou-Giscard Era (in preparation)

Articles

"Imagining European Identity: French Elites and the American Challenge in the Pompidou-Nixon era," Contemporary European History 19, no. 2 (2010 in press): 133-49.

"Valéry Giscard d’Estaing et la relance européenne : nouvel éclairage sur la création du Conseil européen et les réformes institutionnelles du sommet de Paris (1974)," Revue d’histoire diplomatique, no. 4 (2009): 341-60.

Book Chapters

"A Contested Identity: France and the Year of Europe, 1973–1974," in The Road to a United Europe: Interpretations of the Process of European Integration, eds. Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen and Morten Rasmussen (Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009).