Max Weber Fellow
Department of History
Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
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[+39] 055 4685 853
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Pierre Alayrac is a historian and sociologist, working on internationalization and Europeanization processes, public and political bureaucracies, and economic knowledge and policies.He obtained his PhD in social sciences from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in December 2022. He also graduated in social sciences from the École Normale Supérieure (Paris). He has taught a wide variety of courses (thematic, methodological, etc.) in political science, history and sociology at BA and MA level at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure de Paris.His first book focused on the kind of internationalism produced by the members of the Second International during a period of intense nationalization of European societies at the end of the nineteenth century.At the EUI, Pierre is working on three projects. First, he is writing a book based on his PhD. This work focuses on economists in EEC/EU institutions, and especially at the European Commission. It analyses how these economists have been recruited, how they have been put to work and their effects on the conduct of EEC/EU public action. Second, he works on original papers related to his thesis, especially on the kind of liberalism produced in Brussels. Finally, Pierre is starting a new research project on war reparations, and in particular the methods to evaluate the damage caused by conflicts.