Prof. Alain Dieckhoff

CNRS Research Professor, Centre for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris.

As an academic he has worked extensively on various aspects of nation building in Israel. He has also undertaken major comparative projects on contemporary nationalism, populism and the relationships between politics and religion. He has authored seven books, edited ten, published more than eighty articles/chapters in journals and edited volumes.

Among his books published in English: The Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel, Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 2003; Routledge Handbook of Modern Israel (ed.), Routledge, London and New York, 2013; Nationalism and the Multitnation State, Oxford University Press, New York, 2016; Contemporary Populists in Power (with Christophe Jaffrelot & Elise Massicard), Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Latest book in French: Israël-Palestine. Une guerre sans fin? , Dunod, 2024. Alain Dieckhoff was Director of CERI (2014-2023).

He taught at various universities abroad (Geneva Graduate Institute, Université du Québec à Montréal, Tel Aviv University, London School of Economics, Columbia University…). He is international fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the co-director of the Observatoire international du religieux and the Chair for the Study of Religion, both at Sciences Po.