Prof. Alexandre Lambert

Mr. Alexandre Lambert holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (Graduate Institute). He is Academic Director and Professor at the School for International Training in Geneva (SIT Study Abroad / World Learning). Preliminarily, Mr. Lambert was lead researcher on the OSCE Code of Conduct at the Graduate Institute’s Program on the Study of International Organizations, project officer at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), and civil servant at the Swiss Federal Department of Defense. He is a member of the Swiss Foreign Policy Association, the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), European Research Group on Armed Forces and Society (ERGOAS), and Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS) based in Chicago. Next to his academic tasks, Dr. Lambert carries out independent research and provides policy-consultancy on the OSCE Code of Conduct to governments, international and non-governmental organizations. Dr. Lambert has published on a wide range of issues, including international security, multilateral diplomacy, civil-military relations, political theory and democratic governance.

Published Works:
Books:

Democratic Civilian Control of Armed Forces in the Post-Cold War Era, (LIT: DCAF), 2009.

Jacques -Alexis Lambert: Professeur de Lénine, Témoignage de la Révolution Russe, Serie: « Suisses dans le Monde» (no. 4), Edition de Penthes/Infolio, Geneva 2009.

Democratic Governance of the Security Sector Beyond the OSCE Area: Regional Approaches in Africa and the Americas, (LIT: DCAF), 2007 (co-editor).

The OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security: Anatomy and Implementation, Leiden/Boston (Martinus Nijhoff), 2005, (co-author).

OSZE-Verhaltenskodex zu Politisch-Militärischen Aspekten der Sicherheit: Zur Rolle der Streitkräfte in Demokratischen Gesellschaften, Center for Security Studies (CSS), Zürcher Beiträge (No. 71), Zurich, 2005.

Menschenrechte und Ihre Philosophische Begründung: Ein Vergleich Zwischen Otfried Höffe und Jürgen Habermas, ISBN 2-8399-0070-X, Zürich/Genf, 1997/2005.

Main Articles:

International Security, in: Nigel Young (chief ed.), The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace: Oxford 2010.

Democracy by Force, James Forest & Isaiah Wilson (eds.), Handbook of Defense Politics: International and Comparative Perspectives, Routledge 2008, 46-63.

Comprehensive Security in Response to New Threats, Alexandre Vautravers (ed.): Globalization of Security Trends and Perspectives (Security Forum 2007), Geneva (Webster University), 2008, 214-239.

Democratic Security Governance and Multilateral Cooperation: The European Approach, Vincent Chetail (ed.): Conflicts, Security and Cooperation (Liber Amicorum Victor-Yves Ghébali), Brussels: Bruylant, 2007, 429-446.

Implementation of Democratic Control of Armed Forces in the OSCE Region: Lessons from the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security, DCAF, Occasional Papers, No. 11, Geneva, Geneva, 2006.

Les interventions militaires de l’Union Européenne dans les Balkans, Relations Internationales, No. 125 (2006), 59-72.

Categorization of Democratic Civilian Control, DCAF, Working Papers, No. 164 (2005).

The Contribution of the OSCE to the International Fight Against Terrorism, Graduate Institute, Program for the Study of International Organizations, Occasional Paper 1 (2003), 111-124.

The Contribution of the OSCE to the International Fight Against Terrorism, Graduate Institute, PSIO Occasional Papers (No. 1), 2002.

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