Chairman of the IISS and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris)
1978-79 Member of the French Foreign Ministry's Policy Planning Staff (Centre d'analyse et de Prévision), in charge of nuclear non-proliferation issues
1979-81 First Secretary at the French Permanent Mission to the U.N. (New-York), dealing with international security and disarmament issues
1981-84 International security adviser to the French Minister of Defence. Founding-member of the French-German Commission on Security and Defence
1984-87 Vice-President at Thomson-CSF, in charge of European and Euro-American cooperation
1987-92 Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
1992-98 Senior Vice-President (Strategic development), MATRA-Défense-Espace
Subsequently:
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Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris (since May 2005)
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Member of the French Government’s Steering Committee for the White Paper on Terrorism (2005-2006)
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Member of the French "Defence White Paper" Presidential Commission (2007-2008)
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Member of the International Commission on the Balkans (2004-2006)
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Member of the European Commission’s Group of Personalities on Security R & D (2003-2004)
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Director, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris (May 2001-2005)
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Chairman of the IISS Council (since September 2001)
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Professor at Sciences-Po Paris (1999-2001)
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Head of interagency working group (groupe de travail interministériel) on the study of international relations, strategic affairs and defence issues in France (1999-2000)
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Chairman, Foundation Council of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (since December 1998)
PUBLICATIONS:
Numerous articles and interviews in the academic and general media
Author with Pascal Boniface of La Puce, les Hommes et la Bombe, Hachette, Paris 1986 ("Amiral Castex" prize for strategic litterature)
Author of Les volontaires de l'An 2000, Balland, Paris 1995, of The Future of Warfare, Weidenfeld, London 1997
Co-Author and editor of European Defence: Making It Work, WEU Policy for Security Studies, Paris, 2000, and of Readings in International Security, CEPS-IISS, Brussels-London (4 volumes to date, 2002 to 2007)
Hyperterrorisme: la nouvelle guerre, (co-authored with Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique), Odile Jacob, 2001 (‘‘Edouard Freville’’ prize of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques)
Authored La fin de L’Occident ? L’Amerique, L’Europe et le Moyen-Orient, O. Jacob,Paris 2005
Le Terrorisme en France aujourd’h’ui (co. Authored with J.L. Marret), Equateurs Paris 2006
Author of L'Épaisseur du monde, Stock, Paris 2007 and L'Iran; le choix des armes?, Stock, Paris 2007
Contributor to a number of books on foreign and strategic affairs, including: TheConventional Defence of Europe (New-York Council on Foreign Relations, 1986), The Shape of the New Europe (d°, 1991), Western Europe and the Gulf (WEU Institute for Defence Studies, Paris 1992), Allied divided:Transatlantic Policies for the Greater Middle East (Harvard U. Press, 1997), NuclearWeapons in a Transformed World (St. Martin's Press, New-York 1998)
AFFILIATIONS:
Member of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce
Member of the Conseil de Politique europienne et internationale, CNRS
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