Stéphanie Balme
French academic
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Stéphanie Balme is a French academic scholar specializing in political science and international relations. In late 2023, she became the Director of the Centre for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po/French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). From 2018 to 2023, she served as the Dean of the Sciences Po Undergraduate College.[1]
Early life and education
Balme completed her Habilitation in Law in 2016 and earned a PhD in Political Science in 2000 under the supervision of Professor Guy Hermet.[2] She holds degrees from several institutions, including Sciences Po, INALCO, IEP Bordeaux, Fudan University (Shanghai), and the Faculty of Letters of Bordeaux.[citation needed]
Career
While based in Beijing from 2018 to 2019, at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Balme focused on Franco-Chinese scientific cooperation.[citation needed] She was a professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and a research professor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FNSP/Sciences Po).[3]
Balme was elected as the Director of Sciences Po's Centre de recherches internationales (CERI). Balme became the first female director of the joint Sciences Po - CNRS research unit on January 2, 2024, succeeding Alain Dieckhoff (CNRS), who held the position since 2013.[4]
She co-founded the European Science Diplomacy Initiative[5] (ESDI), established in 2020, alongside Pierre Lemonde and Enrico Letta,[citation needed] and helped develop courses on science diplomacy at Sciences Po.[6] Balme has taught at institutions in Paris, Hong Kong, Beijing, New Delhi (Ashoka University), Montreal (UQAM), Vancouver (UBC), and served as a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York.[7]
Publications
Books
- Chine, les visages de la justice ordinaire – Entre faits et droit, Presses de Sciences Po, 2016
- Le procès civil en version originale. Cultures judiciaires comparées : France, Chine, Etats-Unis (English Title: The Civil Trial in Original Version: Comparative Judicial Cultures: France, China, United States), co-authored with Antoine Garapon, Li Bin and Daniel Schimmel, Ebook, LexisNexis, Paris, New York, 2014.
- La Tentation de la Chine: Nouvelles idées reçues sur une puissance en mutation, Le Cavalier Bleu, Paris, April 2013, 350p.
- Building Constitutionalism in China (eds.) with Michael Dowdle, Palgrave-Macmillan CERI, New York, 2009, 322p.
- La Chine et les Etats-Unis: fascinations et rivalités, (English title: China and the US: Between Fascination and Rivalry), co-authored with Daniel Sabbagh (CERI/Sciences Po), Autrement, Paris, 2008, 172p.
- Vietnam’s New Order: International Perspectives on the State and Law Reform, with Mark Sidel (eds.), Palgrave-Macmillan CERI, 2006, 272p.
- La Chine – Les Idées Reçues, Cavalier Bleu, Paris, 2004, (2nd edition 2008), 140p.
- Entre soi, l’élite du pouvoir dans la Chine contemporaine, (English title: Power Elite in Contemporary China), Fayard, Paris, 2004, 474p.
- 你对法律了解多少? (in Chinese) (English title: What do you know about Law?), co-authored with Judge Wang Yaqin, Nanjing Shifan Daxue Chubanshe, Nanjing, 2009, 48p.
Book chapters or reviews (selection)
- “Chine: la règle de droit aux marges d'un empire bureaucratique et absolutiste (1978-2014)”, Revue Francaise d’administration publique, N. 150 September 2014, 2 Paris, pp.393–413
- “Rule of Law as a Watermark: China’s Legal and Judicial Challenges”, The World Bank Law Review, Washington, December 2012, 22p.
- "China: Law and Society", in Mireille Delmas-Marty; Pierre-Etienne Will, China and Democracy, 2011, 32p.
- "Local Courts in Western China: The Quest for Independence and Dignity”, Chapter 8 in Randy Peerenboom (eds.), Judicial Independence in China: A Comparative Developmental Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, pp.154-180.
- “Ordinary Justice and Popular Constitutionalism in China”, Chapter 11 in Balme, Dowdle (eds.), 2009, 178-200p.
- “China’s Constitutional Research and Teaching: A State of the Art”, by Prof. Tong Zhiwei, (translated by author) in Balme, Dowdle (eds.), 2009, pp.98-112p.
- “Introduction to Chinese Political System” (in French) in Antonin Cohen; Lacroix Bernard, Comparative Political Science Textbook, La Découverte, 2009. 28p.
- "Droit et politique en Chine après Mao" (Law and Politics after Mao) (in French), in Mireille Demas-Marty; P.-E Will, La Chine et la Démocratie, Fayard, 2007, Paris, 50p.
- "China’s Soft Power Strategy", CERISCOPE, September 2013 (in French).
- “Access to Justice in China: Review of Efforts to Improve Judicial Efficiency and Reduce Judicial Costs”, EU-UNDP-The People's Supreme Court of the PRC, May 2012 (bilingual: Chinese/English), 40p.
- “‘世俗化’与法治的概念：关于法国“禁止在公共场所穿遮面长袍（burka）”新法案的讨论”, “French Conceptions of “Laicity” and Rule of Law: Debating the New Law Banning Full-face Veil in Public Places in France” (in Chinese), Tsinghua University Law Review, December 2011.
- "The Judicialization of Politics and the Politicisation of the Judiciary in China (1978-2005)", The Global Jurist Frontiers, vol 5, n° 1, 2005 (Berkeley Electronic Law Review)
- “Communism and Schizophrenia: Individual Citizens and Law in Post-Revolutionary China" (in French), Raisons Politiques, Special edition, n°3, Autumn 2001, Paris, 32p.