Dominique Moïsi

Dominique Moïsi ( born October 21, 1946) is a French political scientist, author and journalist.

He is co-founder and now senior advisor to the Paris " Institut Français des Relations Internationales " ( IFRI ), Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Chair of Geopolitics at the College of Europe in Natolin. Moïsi writes regularly for the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the Project Syndicate and the newspapers The World and The Standard.

Moïsi is married to the writer and historian Diana Pinto and has two sons.

Life

His father Jules Moïsi was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Dominique Moïsi studied political science at the Sorbonne and Harvard, taught at the École nationale d'administration, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Institut d' études politiques de Paris. He was assistant to Raymond Aron and editor of the journal Politique étrangère.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 Moïsi attracted attention as one of the first French publicist, who welcomed the foreseeable end of the division of Germany as a new opportunity for Europe. Years later founded Moïsi his position by referring to his father: its destiny as a survivor of Auschwitz have made ​​him "to fall in love with Europe ." As Simone Veil have seen in the construction of a united Europe the best way to overcome the " tragedy of the past" Jules Moïsi.

During the 1990s Moïsi published together with the British Timothy Garton Ash and the German Michael Mertes several " trilateral " pleas for the eastward expansion of the EU and the concomitant institutional modernization.

Moïsi is a member of the International Advisory Board of the "Moscow School of Political Studies " and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

In 2008 he published the book " La Géopolitique de l' émotion: Comment les cultures de peur, et d' espoir d' humiliation façonnent le monde ", which was published in English and in German translation in 2009.

Publications (selection)

• Le nouveau continent: plea pour une Europe renaissante ( with Jacques Rupnik ). Calmann - Lévy, Paris, 1991, ISBN 978-2702119617
• Les cartes de la France à l' heure de la mondialisation ( in dialogue with Hubert Vedrine ). Fayard, Paris 2000, ISBN 978-2213604220
• The Geopolitics of Emotion. How cultures of fear, humiliation and hope determine world politics. DVA, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3421043320
• Un Juif improbable. Flammarion, Paris, 2011. ISBN 978-2-0812-3674-5