Lydie Cabane is senior Assistant Professor at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs. Her main interests include crises, governance, public policy, states, expertise, European Union and global politics.

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Lydie Cabane is senior Assistant Professor at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs. Her main interests include crises, governance, public policy, states, expertise, European Union and global politics.

Her research delves into three main areas: 1) understanding crisis management as a public policy and its effects on governing and states; 2) the protective politics of the crisis management state; 3) crisis expertise and knowledge.

She currently contributes to a research project on ‘Towards a +4°C Welfare State’ on protection policies against social risks related to environmental risks and disasters in European countries, and works on several publications related to protective politics in times of disasters and crisis management as a public policy.

She has carried research on disaster management in South Africa, global health and pandemic amangement, and transboudary crisis management in the European Union. She has published The Government of Disasters. State formation and Disaster Management in South Africa (Palgrave, 2023).

She is an associate editor of the International Review of Public Policy.

She is a member of the Crisis Lab at Sciences Po Paris.

Prior to joining Leiden University, she worked at the London School of Economics. She was a visiting scholar at the STS program at Harvard University, at Stockholm University, and at the University of Cape Town. She holds a PhD from Sciences Po Paris (2012).

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