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Two Inalco professors appointed members of the Institut Universitaire de France
By order of the Minister of Higher Education and Research dated April 23, 2026, the Institut Universitaire de France has unveiled the list of teacher-researchers appointed members of the Institut Universitaire de France as of October 1, 2026, for a period of 5 years.
Two Inalco teacher-researchers appointed to the Fundamental Chair
Guibourg Delamotte, Professor of Political Science in the Department of Japanese Studies, is appointed as Senior Fellow on a 5-year research project entitled Party Discipline and Defense Issues in British, Australian and Japanese Parliaments. Political parties, through which representative democracy functions, depend on party discipline. Party discipline is exercised differently in the UK, Australia and Japan. How is it exercised in the field of defense, essential to the nation? What vision of the parliamentary function do these differences express? This comparative project, at the crossroads of political science and defense studies, bridges disciplines and areal studies.
Trained in law (U. Panthéon-Assas, U. Oxford), Japanese (Inalco), political studies (IEP Paris, EHESS) and comparatism (U. Oxford, IEP Paris), Guibourg Delamotte has been working for many years on the Japanese political system approached comparatively, the development of foreign and defense policy, and international security.
His publications include: La Politique de défense du Japon, PUF, 2010; La Démocratie japonaise, singulière et universelle, ENS Ed., 2022; Le Japon, un leader discret, Eyrolles, 2023; Géopolitique et géoéconomie du monde contemporain. Conflits et puissances (codir.), La Découverte, 2024; The Abe Legacy. How Japan has been shaped by Abe Shinzô (codir.), Lexington, 2021.
Andreas Guidi, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History of Southeast Europe, is appointed as a Junior Member. He is a member of the Centre de recherche Europes-Eurasie (CREE) and an associate member of the UMR 8032 Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBAC). In 2025-2026 he was recipient of the Champions Scheme of the European University Alliance EUniWell.
Doctoral fellow at EHESS and Humboldt University Berlin (cotutelle, 2018), he has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Konstanz and the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on the social history of the Balkans and the Mediterranean in the 20th century through topics such as empires, fascism, colonialism, youth and generations, and mobilities. His current project studies territorial changes in the Mediterranean in the mid-20th century through the prism of illicit trafficking, and as a connected history of the Second World War, the Cold War and decolonization. He has supported international projects funded by the France-Berkeley-Fund and the Villa Vigoni Center.
The monograph resulting from his thesis, Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean (University of Toronto Press, 2022) was the winner of the Prize for the First Book awarded by the international consortium The Mediterranean Seminar. He edited the special journal issues Imperial Youth in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries (Journal of Social History, 2026) and Between Deviance and Marginalization. Gendering the Transnational 'Underworld' (Crime, History and Societies, 2025, with Sarah Frenking).
Teacher-researchers appointed to the Institut universitaire de France are placed in a delegated position.
They continue to carry out their activity at their home institution and are relieved of two-thirds of their teaching service.
About the Institut universitaire de France
The Institut universitaire de France is a group of teacher-researchers under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Created in 1991, its mission is to foster the development of high-level university research and encourage interdisciplinarity, with the following objectives:
- Encouraging institutions and teacher-researchers to achieve excellence in research, with the positive consequences this can be expected to have on teaching, the training of young researchers and, more generally, the dissemination of knowledge.
- Contribute to the feminization of the research sector.
- Contribute to a balanced distribution of university research in the country, and therefore to a policy of scientific meshing of the territory.