He holds a Jean Monnet European Chair and is director of the scientific interest group GIS Europe based in Rennes. Dr Dessberg is a member of UMR SIRICE, Labex EHNE and the Saint-Cyr Research Centre (CREC), where he heads the European Defence and Security Department. He is interested in the French policy in Central and Eastern Europe between the two world wars. He has published and co-edited: Le Triangle impossible. Les relations franco-soviétiques et le facteur polonais dans les questions de sécurité en Europe, 1924-1935, 2009; Les Horizons lointains de la politique extérieure française, 2011; Les Européens et la guerre, 2013 ; Militaires et diplomates français face à l’Europe médiane. Entre médiations et constructions des savoirs, 2017.