Dr. Michiel Foulon

Michiel Foulon

Haldeneggsteig 4
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

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Michiel Foulon is a Senior Researcher on US Grand Strategy towards China and European grand strategy at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on the role of security and trade dynamics in US and European grand strategy as well as International Relations Theory with a focus on neoclassical realism. He is convenor of the MACIS course “European Strategy in a Changing World".

Prior to joining the ETH, Michiel worked at the Free University Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), was Assistant Professor in International Relations at Leiden University (Netherlands) and taught at the University of Warwick (UK), where he obtained his PhD. Michiel has been a Fellow with the UK’s Higher Education Academy since 2015, was nominated for the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (UK) in 2016. In his previous roles, he taught modules on international security, research methods and thesis writing, the international relations of the Asia-Pacific, the United States and East Asia, international relations theory, world politics, the global environment of business, and governance, politics and corporate accountability.

Michiel’s research has recently been published in the European Journal of International Relations and the International Studies Review. He served as external reviewer for leading international journals such as European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Pacific Review, International Relations, Japanese Journal of Political Science, and Chinese Political Science Review. His comments have appeared in media outlets such as the Financial Times, The Conversation, The China Review and the Warwick Knowledge Centre. Prior to his doctoral studies, Michiel obtained MA's in International Political Economy (Warwick) and Commercial Sciences (European University College, Brussels) as well as BA’s in Commercial Sciences (European University College, Brussels) and Business Management (University College Leuven, KHLeuven, Belgium). He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic and Professional Practice and two Postgraduate Awards (Warwick).

Michiel regularly presents at national and international conferences such as the International Studies Association International Conference in Hong Kong, the British International Studies Association Conferences, the European Consortium for Political Research, and at closed workshops.

Besides journal article manuscripts on US grand strategy, European grand strategy, and neoclassical realism, Michiel is finalising his book on neoclassical realism and American grand strategy towards China since 1991.

Selected Publications

external page Foulon, Michiel; Thompson, Jack (eds.) (2021) 'The Future of European Strategy in a Changing Geopolitical Environment: Challenges and Prospects', The Hague: The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.

external page Meibauer, Gustav; Desmaele, Linde; Onea, Tudor; Kitchen, Nicholas; Foulon, Michiel; Reichwein, Alexander; Sterling-​Folker, Jennifer (2021) 'Forum: Rethinking Neoclassical Realism at Theory's End', International Studies Review 23, 1: 268-295.

Foulon, Michiel (2021) 'Turbulent Trade: Europe and the Biden Challenge', CSS Policy Perspectives 9, 1.

external page Foulon, Michiel; Meibauer, Gustav (2020) 'From Realism’s Disciplinary Dominance to a More Global IR’, E-​International Relations.

external page Foulon, Michiel; Meibauer, Gustav (2020) 'Realist Avenues to Global International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations 26, 4: 1203–1229.

external page Foulon, Michiel (2018) ‘Trade and Security in US Grand Strategy vis-à-vis China’, in: Regilme Jr., Salvador Santino F.; Parisot, James (eds.) American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers: Cooperation or Conflict, London and New York: Routledge: 43-​59.

external page Foulon, Michiel (2018) ‘Neoclassical Realist Analyses of Foreign Policy’, in: Haney, Patrick et al. (eds.) Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

external page Foulon, Michiel (2015) ‘Neoclassical Realism: Challengers and Bridging Identities’, International Studies Review 17, 4: 635-​661.

external page Foulon, Michiel (2014) 'BRICS Host Sports Events to Boost Prestige, Just Don’t Call It ‘Soft Power’‘, The Conversation.

external page Foulon, Michiel (2014) ‘U.S.-​China Relations: What Happens When Two Great Powers Meet?’, China Review by China in Focus, Spring-​Summer 2014: 4-6.

external page Foulon, Michiel (2014) ’Soft Power is Not Built but Earned’, Financial Times.

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