French-IR graduate (2022) wins National Essay Prize for his final year French Dissertation
Conor Hagerty (French-IR 2022)'s Dissertation in French entitled ‘A new purpose in Africa? An analysis of France’s current sub-Saharan foreign policy through norm entrepreneurship theory’ is the winning entry in this year’s annual Douglas Johnson Memorial Essay Prize Competition, organised by the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France. The sub-committee of the Executive that evaluated submissions commented that the essay demonstrated an ‘excellent mastery of the detail and analytical frameworks of study’. The sub-committee felt that the dissertation was highly original, and it ‘expertly explained the case study’.