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Jeroen Joly est professeur du cours de Geopolitics à l’UCLouvain – Saint-Louis Bruxelles et chargé de cours en World Politics à l’École Royale Militaire (ERM). Il est également chercheur associé au groupe de recherche M2P (Movements, Media and Politics) de l’Université d’Anvers.
Ses recherches portent sur les dynamiques, les moteurs et les freins au changement en politique internationale et en politique étrangère. Il dirige le Centre d’Analyse de la Politique Étrangère (CFPA) à l’ERM, où il mène des projets de recherche sur les déterminants des dépenses de défense (MISTIC) ainsi que sur l’opinion publique et la désinformation (BEL-POP).
Ses études antérieures ont examiné l’impact des médias, des partis politiques et de l’idéologie sur les changements de politique en matière de coopération au développement et de dépenses de défense. Ces travaux ont été publiés, entre autres, dans Political Communication, Cooperation and Conflict et Policy Studies Journal. Il a également coédité, avec Tim Haesebrouck (UGent), un ouvrage intitulé Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991.
Titulaire d’un doctorat de l’Université d’Anvers, il a occupé des postes postdoctoraux à McGill, à l’Université de Toronto et à l’Université de Gand. De 2020 à 2024, il a également été chef de l’unité de contrôle interne et de communication à la Direction générale Coopération au développement et Aide humanitaire (DGD) du ministère belge des Affaires étrangères.
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Jeroen Joly is lecturer in Geopolitics at UCLouvain – Saint-Louis Brussels and in World Politics at the Royal Military Academy. He is also associated researcher at the Movements, Media and Politics (M2P) Research group at the University of Antwerp.
His research focuses on the dynamics, drivers and inhibitors of change in international politics and in foreign policy. He is head of the Center for Foreign Policy Analysis (CFPA) at the RMA where he leads research projects on the determinants of defense spending (MISTIC) and on public opinion and disinformation (BEL-POP).
His past work examined the role of media, political parties and ideology on policy changes in development cooperation and defense spending, and has been published in Political Communication, Cooperation and Conflict and Policy Studies Journal, among others. He has also co-edited a book on Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991 with Tim Haesebrouck (UGent).
He holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp and has previously held postdoctoral positions at McGill, the University of Toronto and Ghent University. From 2020 – 2024 he also served as head of unit of internal control and communication at the Directorate-general for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD) of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Main recent publications include:
Peer-reviewed articles:
Bergeron, T., Amsalem, E., Sheffer, L., Joly, J., and Loewen, P. (2025). What Personality Traits Do Citizens Want Politicians to Have? Observational and Experimental Evidence of Citizens’ Preferences in Three Countries. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70043
Joly, J., and Richter, F. (2023). The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics. Policy Studies Journal, 51(2), pp. 265-282. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12478
Joly, J. and Hofmans, J. (2023). How Reliable Are Personality Judgments by Political Experts? The Curious Case of Donald Trump. Personality Science, 4, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.6715
Joly, J. and Hofmans, J. (2022). Hierarchy position & personality predict politicians’ choice of information sources. Behavioral science & Policy, 8(2), pp. 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/237946152200800203
Haesebrouck, T. and Joly, J. (2021). Foreign policy change – from policy adjustments to fundamental reorientations. Political Studies Review, 19(3), pp. 482-491. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929920918783
Edited books:
Joly, J. and Haesebrouck, T. (2021). Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991. Palgrave-Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68218-7
Book Chapters:
Haesebrouck, T. and Joly, J. (2024). Belgisch Buitenlands, Veiligheids- en Defensiebeleid. In Mengelberg, S., Rothman, M., and Frerks, G. (Eds.) Internationale Veiligheidsstudies. Het vak, de theorie en de praktijk. Leiden: Leiden University Press. https://doi.org/10.24415/9789087284572
Joly, J. and Haesebrouck, T. (2021). Belgian Foreign Policy: In Foro Interno, Inferno? In Joly, J. and Haesebrouck, T. (Eds.) Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991. London: Pagrave-Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68218-7_2
Joly, J. and Richter, F. (2019). Punctuated Equilibrium Theory in Foreign Policy Analysis. In Brummer, K. Harnisch, S., Opperman, K. and Panke D. (Eds.). “Foreign Policy Analysis and Public Policy Approaches: Bridging the Gap”. Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526140708.00010