Cecile Pelaudeix

Cécile Pelaudeix, PhD

Policy analyst – Researcher

 

• Strategic autonomy, security, governance

• Arctic, Greenland, EU, China

• Regional organisations, differentiation

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cecile.pelaudeix@umrpacte.fr

Pacte/IEP - BP 48 38040 Grenoble cedex 9 France

 

Employment history

2026 –                       Research Fellow, Academy of International Affairs, NRW (6 months)

External lecturer Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA

2011 –  present    Associated member, PACTE-Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA

2020 – 23                 Research fellow, CNRS (H2020) Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA

2018 – 20                 Lecturer, Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA

2016 – 17                 Associate Professor, Law Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

2014 – 16                 Associate Professor, Arctic Research Center (ARC), Aarhus University, Denmark

2012 – 13                 Policy Analyst, EU Arctic Forum, Brussels

2011 – 14                 Lecturer, Sciences Po Lyon, Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA

 

                                   

Education

Political science

•  PhD, International Relations, Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA. With highest honours

•  Master European Governance, Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA

•  CNU Qualification: section 04

Art history

•  PhD, Université Laval, Canada (Inter-university Doctorate). With highest honours

•  PhD UGA, France (cotutelle). With highest honours

•  CNU Qualification: section 22 and section 18

Grants: French Research Ministry – Région Rhône Alpes – Université Laval

Languages​

•  French C2 (mother tongue) – English C2 (Fluent) – Spanish B2 (Intermediate)​

Recommendation

‘A very experienced scholar in the fields of Arctic studies. Open minded and very articulate. It is exceptionally easy to work with.’ Arild Moe, Research Professor, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo

 

Research organisation and project management

•  EU3D Differentiation, Dominance, Democracy (Contract H2020- 822419, 2020-2023) Research Project: Work Package coordinator on external differentiation, Organization of events, supervision of 3 interns, budget monitoring, author of a report for the European Commission (see Publications section)

•  CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) Lead representative of the interdisciplinary group on governance (political science and law), Observatoire de l’Arctique: CNRS, Paris, 2011-2014

•  European Defense Agency (EDA) (contract 16.CAT.OP.092)

  • Lead representative of a work package

  • Co-author of the report ‘Arctic Training Study’, 2016–17

• INTRALaw, Head of the interdisciplinary group on governance, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2014–2017

•  ARC Arctic Research Center, Responsible for the development of social sciences for the creation of an interdisciplinary department involving 4 faculties of the University (Social Sciences, Law, Biology, Health). Elaboration and implementation of an action plan. Aarhus University, Denmark (2014-17)

•  Co-direction of 3 scientific volumes (14, 18 et 20 authors) (see Publications section)

 

Academic responsibilities

• Member of 3 PhD adjudication committees in political science

  • University of Oslo, 2024.  The Political Economy of Environmental Preservation: Petroleum and the Arctic Offshore.

  • Université Paris Descartes, 2018. Les relations entre la Norvège et la Russie dans l'Arctique. Regard et analyse d'une dynamique régionale à l'ère anthropique (Relations between Norway and Russia in the Arctic. Analysis of regional dynamics in the anthropogenic era). Florian Vidal.

  • Sciences Po Grenoble, 2018. L'Arctique comme enjeu de coopération internationale (The Arctic as a challenge for international cooperation). Michal Symonides.

•  Member of the Recruitment Jury, Post-Doc Research Fellowship, UiT, Norway 2017.

•  Master supervision, Human Security. Eline Koopman. ‘Reigning the people: Sovereignty Stakeholders’ perspectives of the political future of Greenland’. Aarhus University, 2015

•  Research Project Evaluation: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, Political Science, 2012

•  Evaluation (publishers) 

  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

  • Cambridge University Press

  • Routledge

  • Palgrave Macmillan

•  Evaluation (journals) 

  • International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

  • McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law & Policy

  • Advances in Polar Science (Polar Research Institute of China)

  • Environmental politics

  • Arctic Review on Law and Politics

  • Polar Record (Cambridge University Press)

•  Member of editorial committees

  • Studies in Polar Law (Brill Academic Publishers)

  • Etudes Inuit Studies

 

Publications

 5 volumes

Pelaudeix Cecile. 2023, Differentiated regionalism and China’s global agenda: EU, ASEAN and Mercosur between resilience and strategic autonomy. EU3D Report 16. ARENA Report 8/23.

 

Lemann Kristiansen B., Mitkidis K., Neumann L., Munkholm, Pelaudeix C. 2019. Transnationalisation tendencies and law: legitimacy in question. London: Routledge.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile and Basse, E. M. (ed.). 2017. Governance of Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas, New York, London: Routledge. ​

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile, Faure A., Griffiths R. (ed.). 2012. What Holds the Arctic Together? Paris, L’Harmattan, Coll. Logiques Politiques

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile, 2007. Art inuit, Formes de l'âme et représentations de l'être. Histoire de l'art et anthropologie. Grenoble, Ed. de Pise.​

 

 

 

 

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Chapitres d’ouvrages et rapports scientifiques

Pelaudeix, Cecile. 2024.  Is the differentiated EU facing up to Chinese influence?, In Jozef Bátora and John Erik Fossum (eds.), Differentiation and Dominance in Europe’s Poly-Crises, Routledge, 311–336.

 

Pelaudeix Cecile. 2023, Comparing differentiation in the EU, ASEAN and Mercosur in relation to China’s influence: Introduction to the database. EU3D Report 12. 4/23.

 

Pelaudeix Cecile. 2023, Differentiated regionalism and China’s global agenda: EU, ASEAN and Mercosur between resilience and strategic autonomy. EU3D Report 16. ARENA Report 8/23.

 

Pelaudeix, Cecile and Christophe Humrich. 2021. ‘‘Global Conventions and Regional Cooperation:  The Multifaceted Dynamics of Arctic Governance, in Finger Matthias and Gunnar Rekvig (eds), GlobalArctic – an introduction to the multifaceted dynamics of the Arctic. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 443–61. 

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2019. “Transnationalism in the Arctic Ocean: legitimacy strategies of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, the European Union and China”. In Lemann Kristiansen B., Mitkidis K., Munkholm L., Neumann L., Pelaudeix C. Transnationalisation tendencies and law: legitimacy in question. 33–48. London, New York: Routledge.

 

Munkholm L., Pelaudeix C. and Lemann B. 2019. “Transnationalisation tendencies and law: legitimacy in question”, In Lemann Kristiansen B., Munkholm L., Mitkidis K., Neumann L., Pelaudeix C. Transnationalisation tendencies and law: legitimacy in question. 230–246. London, New York: Routledge.

 

Wise Pens International, Cécile Pelaudeix et al. 2017. “Arctic Training”. Rapport pour l’Agence Européenne de Défense.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2017. “Governance of offshore hydrocarbon activities in the Arctic and energy policies: a comparative approach between Norway, Canada and Greenland/Denmark”, in C. Pelaudeix and E.M. Basse (eds.), Governance of Arctic offshore oil and gas activities, New York, London: Routledge, 108-126.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2017. “Towards an integrated and participatory governance of the Arctic marine areas”, in C. Pelaudeix and E.M. Basse (eds.), Governance of Arctic offshore oil and gas activities, New York, London: Routledge, 280-292.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile and E.M. Basse. 2017. “Governance of Arctic offshore oil and gas activities: between diversity and coexistence”, in C. Pelaudeix and E.M. Basse (eds.), Governance of Arctic offshore oil and gas activities, New York, London: Routledge, 1-15.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2016. “EU - Greenland relations and sustainable development in the Arctic”, Chapter 16, in Elena Conde Pérez and Sara Iglesias (eds.), Global challenges in the Arctic Region. Sovereignty, Environment and Geopolitical Balance, London: Routledge, 306-322.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2015. “Sustainable development in
the Arctic region: impacts, implementation and governance”, in Science plan, French Arctic Initiative, 2015-2020, CNRS-INSU, 59-61.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2012. “Inuit governance in a changing environment: a scientific or a political project?”, in C. Pelaudeix, A. Faure, R. Griffiths (dir.), What Holds the Arctic Together? Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. Logiques Politiques, 67-83.

 

 

Articles et papiers de recherche

 

Pelaudeix Cécile. 2026. Le Groenland, le Danemark et l’UE au défi de l’ordre trumpien : la Doctrine Monroe en marche  The Conversation, 7 janvier

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2025. Entre expansionnisme de Trump et post-colonialisme danois, quelle architecture de sécurité pour le Groenland ? The Conversation, 30 mars

 

Pelaudeix, Cecile. 2021. The Rise of China and EU Vulnerability (July 28, 2021). EU3D Research Paper No. 14

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2018. “Along the road, China in the Arctic”. Institute for Security Studies, Connectivity and Security Brief, 13

Quoted by former Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs Stef Blok in a letter to the Parliament as ‘a good overview of China's involvement in the Arctic’. 5/07/2019.

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Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2018. “Deep seabed mining of critical metals: strategic and governance challenges”. Edito Energie, Ifri, 18 December.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. Basse, Ellen Margrethe and Loukacheva Natalia. 2017. “Openness, transparency and public participation in the governance of uranium mining in Greenland: a legal and political track record”, Polar Record. Cambridge University Press, 53 (6), 603-616.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2015. “China’s interests in the Arctic and the EU Arctic policy:  towards a proactive EU foreign policy?”, The Yearbook of Polar Law, 7, 128-150.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2015. “Governance of Arctic Offshore Oil & Gas Activities: Multilevel Governance & Legal Pluralism at Stake”, in L. Heininen, H. Exner-Pirot, J. Plouffe, Arctic Yearbook 2015, Akureyri, Iceland: Northern Research Forum, 214-233.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile and Rodon, Thierry. 2014. “The EU Arctic policy and national interests of France and Germany: internal and external policy coherence at stake”, Northern Review, 37, 57-85.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2014. “What is “Arctic governance? A critical assessment of the diverse meanings of “Arctic governance”, The Yearbook of Polar Law, 6, 398-426.

 

Weber Steffen, Pelaudeix Cécile and Iulian Romanyshyn. 2012. “EU’s New Arctic Communication: Towards Understanding of a Greater Role”, Arctic Yearbook.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2011. “Governance Inuit : un progetto politico o scientifico ? ”, Il Polo, Anno LXVI, 1, 23-34.

 

Autres publications

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2011. “EU and Canada Can Grow Arctic Relations”, Embassy, Canada’s Foreign Policy Newspaper, 28 September. 

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2013. “The Kiruna Ministerial Meeting: the Arctic Council strengthens its role for a globalized Arctic”, Arctic Forum Foundation, 29 May.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2012. “Towards a holistic approach of Arctic resources exploitation”, Arctic discussion, Comment Visions (Euronews & European Voice).

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2012. “EU, Canada and the Arctic: Towards a new step”, Report of the conference “The European Union, Canada, and the Arctic: Challenge of International Governance”, 22-23 October, Ottawa, Carleton University. EU Arctic Forum newsletter, Summer 2012.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2012. “Polar Law, Democracy and Arctic Governance”, Report of 4th Polar Law Symposium, “Arctic Governance”, Nuuk, 8-10 September 2011. EU Arctic Forum newsletter, Summer 2012.

 

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2012. “How to think the Arctic in a globalized world?”, Report of the conference “The Arctic in Transition, Regional Issues and Geopolitics”, EU Arctic Forum newsletter.

 

Academic review

Pelaudeix, Cécile. 2013. Polar Law Textbook II. N. Loukacheva (ed.), 2013. TemaNord 2013:535, Nordic Council of Ministers. Polar Law Record.

 

 

Teaching

Full courses

• Sciences Po Grenoble

  • Geopolitics of the Arctic, PostGraduate 2026

  • Change in global politics, Master, 2021–2022

  • International relations and Governance in the Arctic region, 2019–2022, Bachelor

  • ‘Arctic Culture, National Identity and Canadian Circumpolar Issues’, Course on Canada, Master, 2005–2006

•  Sciences Po Lyon, International relations and Governance in the Arctic region, Master, 2012–2014

Invited professor

• Sciences Po Lyon, Arctic security and geopolitics, Master, 2025

•  Aarhus University, ‘Interdisciplinarity as part of legal research’ with Pr. E.M. Basse. Aarhus University, Law Department, PhD (course on theories and methods) 2015, 2016, 2017

•  Ilisimatusarfik (Greenland). Course coordinator and lecturer. Interdisciplinary course, ‘Arctic Governance and sustainable development’, Master, Greenland, Ilisimatusarfik (Nuuk), 2015–2016

•  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, MOOC (Global studies), Switzerland, ‘Unclos and the legal regimes in the Arctic’, 29 mars 2018

•  University of Groningen, Netherland. International Relations Department, Summer School, 2017. Global Energy Transition from Local perspectives. Yes in my Backyard. Lecture on ‘Energy security: Interrogating the concept in the Arctic context’. 23 August.

• Syddansk University: ‘The Arctic Council as a norm-shaping body’, Pr. Mennecke’s course International Organizations, Master International security and Law, 30 September 2016.

 

Science outreach

•  COP21, Presentation in the panel ‘The Arctic and Nordic Climate Science, Technology and Diplomacy in a Global Context’, Paris, 2015

•  Organization of round tables: Thinking about the future of the European Union, Sciences Po Grenoble. 2022. Event accredited French Presidency of the Council of Europe. With Members of the European Parliament, Senator André Gattolin, and representatives of civil society

  • Instruments for protecting the rule of law in the EU

  • The health crisis and economic recovery in Europe

  • The EU in search for citizen attention

  • The EU's resilience in the face of China Symposium Arctic Futures, Brussels

•  Lecturer at the Inter-Age University of Dauphiné (2019 – 2023)

•  Opinion paper: ‘EU and Canada Can Grow Arctic Relations’, Embassy, Canada’s Foreign Policy Newspaper, 28 September 2011.

•  Interviews: TV2 (Denmark) - TF1 (France), France Inter, RFI. Presse De Morgen (Belgium).

 

Expertise (EU, National and Territorial Governments)

•  European External Action Service (EEAS), Member of the EU-China Delegation, dialogue on the peace process in Afghanistan, the Korean peninsula, and EU-Asia connectivity (a 1.5 track seminar). Presentation on the Polar Silk Road, 14 December 2018. Presentation in the session on EU-Asia connectivity: implications for security. Co-organisers: European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY), International College of Defence Studies (ICDS), National Defence University (NDU)

•  European External Action Service (EEAS), EU Arctic Policy Assessment, Internal seminar, Brussels, 29 November 2018

•  European Commission. Author of the report ‘Differentiation and China’s global agenda: EU, ASEAN and Mercosur between resilience and strategic autonomy’ (EU3D project, contract H2020- 822419). Study of 2 policies: foreign direct investments, security. 2023

•  European parliament, DG for External Policies, Policy Hub. Brussels, 16 March 2017. Invited expert on China and the Law of the Sea: China's position on the Arctic Ocean and on the South China Sea.

•  EUISS Author of the report ‘Along the road, China in the Arctic’. ISS, Connectivity and Security Brief, 13 2018. Quoted by former Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs Stef Blok in a letter to the Parliament as ‘a good overview of China's involvement in the Arctic’. 5/07/2019.

•  France, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs

  • Contribution to the Road Map on the Arctic policy of the French government, Observatoire Arctique (CNRS-INSU) and Member of the Scientific Committee, 2011-2014

  • Lead author, Governance and sustainable development section, of the Science Plan of the French Arctic Initiative 2015-2020 (2015)

  • Member of the French scientific delegation, Arctic Circle, Iceland 2013, 2015 and 2016 and informal advisor to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Arctic policy.

  • Institut Français Norvège, Conference The Changing Arctic, Environment and Governance: Presentation on the Arctic Council as a norm entrepreneur, Tromsø, 2016

•  Denmark, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, organization of high-level meetings  in Copenhagen in 2016, with the Joint Arctic Command, Danish Defence in Nuuk, 2016.

•  Greenland, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Nuuk. Invited expert with Greenlandic and Icelandic MFA representatives, internal meeting, Hans Egede House, Nuuk, 5 April 2016.

 

Expertise (think tanks)

•  Geneva Centre for Security Policy, High North Talks, Invited expert. Presentation: Arctic cooperation: disentangling science, science diplomacy and diplomacy, Geneva, 27 September 2022

•  European Centre for Security Studies, George C. Marshall Center, European Security Seminar North, Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Participation in the 2018 and 2019 seminars. The Arctic: Risks and Opportunities for Europe and North America. Intervention: ‘International and regional governance interplay in the Arctic region’

•  Ifri, Center for Energy, Speaker in a conference. Presentation on ‘Deep seabed mining of critical metals: strategic and governance challenges’, 18 December 2018. Publication of an editorial ‘Deep seabed mining of critical metals: strategic and governance challenges’

•  EU Arctic Forum. Policy analysis, conferences, seminars, newsletters, articles (see publications) 2012-2013. Including the 2013 Arctic Roundtable with President of Iceland O. Grimsson, Vice President of World Petroleum Council, representatives of Shell, Tschudi Group, certification companies (DNV), Members of the European Parliament. Oslo, 2013

•  Global Economic Symposium. Invited expert. Presentation on ‘Exploring Energy Resources in the Arctic Ocean’, Rio, Brazil, 16-17 October 2012

•  WWF. Internal seminar on the potential role of the WWF in the making of the EU Arctic policy. Global Arctic Program/European Policy Office, Invited expert, 17-18 June 2015

 

Debates

•  Arctic Frontiers, Session ‘COP21 revisited’ with V. Helgesen, Minister for Climate and Environment, Norway. Debate with R. E. Fife, Ambassador of Norway in France, A. Keskitalo, Pdt of the Sami Parliament. Tromsø, 2016

•  International Studies Association, Atlanta, US. ‘The Arctic in Global Climate Diplomacy: Taking Stock of COP21’. Round Table with Oran Young, 16 March 2016

•  Symposium Arctic Futures, Moderator, Brussels, international conference, Round table with 6 Members of the European Parliament and representatives of Indigenous Peoples’ organizations, 14- 15 October, 2014

 

Conferences

• + 13 Co-organization of international conferences, including

  • 4th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium, co-chair, session sustainable development, Rovaniemi, 2016

  • Arctic offshore governance, Aarhus University, 2014

  • Collège de France, National Arctic Conference, Co-organization and chair of the governance panel, Paris, March 2013

  • EISA (European International Studies Association), Pan-european Conference on International Relations

    • Marine Governance, Section 'The Politics of the Ocean and Polar Regions'. The power politics of nature, Malta, 16 September 2021.

    • Panel chair and discussant ‘Arctic and Antarctic politics’. Sofia, 11-14 September 2019.

  • ‘Security and governance in the Global Arctic: Nordic and International Perspectives’: Member of the scientific committee and co-chair of the panel on energy security and environmental governance, Aahrus, 12-13 Nov. 2015

  • ICPP (International Conference on Public Policies)  

    • Security and resource development policies: multi-level governance in the Arctic region, Milan, 1-4 July 2015

    • Panel chair, panel, 1st ICPP:  Perspectives on Public Policies in the Arctic, PACTE Sciences Po Grenoble, 26-28 June 2013

  • IPSA (International Political Science Association), Chair of the 1rst panel on the Arctic: 23rd congress. ‘Global governance state and regulatory regimes in the Arctic region’, Montréal, July 2014

  • Member of the steering committee, National Arctic Conference, Collège de France, INSU-CNRS, Paris, 4-6 June 2013

  • Member of the scientific committee, Head of French scientific committee, international conference: ‘The Arctic in Transition, Regional Issues and Geopolitics, Chaire Raoul Dandurand, UQÀM, Montréal, 2011

  • Convenor (with A. Faure) of the 1st International conference on Arctic geopolitics in France – Lyon, 20 speakers, 8 countries. With former Prime Minister M. Rocard, and Canadian Ambassador M. Lortie, Enjeux et Equations géopolitiques au 21e siècle - CEC and PACTE Sciences Po Grenoble, Lyon, 2010

•  Invited speaker

  • DCU Brexit Institute, EU Strategic Autonomy Two Years into the War in Ukraine. Keynote: President Dalia Grybauskaitė (Former President of Lithuania). 14 May 2024.

  • University of Hamburg, guest lecturer. “Climate governance and norms contestation from Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic”, Cluster of Excellence CLICCS (Climate, Climatic change and Society). 2 December 2019.

  • 1st Kobe International Law Workshop, Arctic: Current Legal and Policy Issues, “Offshore regulation and the fragmentation of law”, Kobe, Japan. 24 April 2015.

•  Speaker in +40 international conferences (Japan, China, US, Canada, Australia, Brazil, EU countries, Norway, Island). Including:

  • Sciences Po Paris, CERI, ‘Le concept d’autonomie stratégique dans la politique européenne du Président Macron’ (The concept of strategic autonomy in President Macron's European policy), with S. Saurugger and O. Costa, 24-25 November 2022

  • EISA (European International Studies Association), Pan-European Conference on International Relations

    • Panel Arctic Politics. ‘China’s legitimacy and power practices in the oceans: what impacts on UNCLOS and international law?’, 13 September 2021

    •  ‘Politics of the deep ocean: the ‘common heritage of mankind’ concept put to the test of sovereign states and emerging powers’, Sofia, 11-14 September 2019

 

Medias

• France:

  • Press : Le Monde, Le NouvelObs, Le Parisien, La Montagne

  • Radio : RFI, France Culture (2 live interviews), France Info, France Inter

  • TV : France 24 (2 live interviews), TV5 Monde (2 live interviews), LCI, TF1

• Belgium: Le Vif, Le Soir, De Morgen

• Denmark: TV2

• Canada: Embassy