Dominique Moïsi (born 21 October 1946) is a French

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and writer. He was a co-founder and is a senior advisor of the

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-based

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(IFRI), ''Pierre Keller Visiting Professor'' at

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, and the chairholder for Geopolitics at the

College of Europe The College of Europe (french: Collège d'Europe) is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its main campus in Bruges, Belgium and a second campus in Warsaw, Poland. The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 by leading ...

, the oldest educational institution in European affairs, in

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. He is also a Fellow a
CEDEP
the European Centre for Executive Development. Moïsi regularly contributes op-ed articles and essays to the ''

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'', '' Foreign Affairs'', the Project Syndicate as well as ''

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'' and ''

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''. Moïsi is married to the historian and writer

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. The couple has two sons.

Life

His father Jules Moïsi was an Auschwitz survivor. Dominique Moïsi studied

Political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

at the

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and at

. He was research assistant to

Raymond Aron Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his 19 ...

and taught at the

École nationale d'administration The École nationale d'administration (generally referred to as ENA, en, National School of Administration) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by President Charles de Gaulle and principal author of the 1958 Constitution Michel Deb ...

(ENA), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. He was editor in chief of Politique étrangère. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he aroused attention as one of the first French commentators to welcome the conceivable end of History of Germany (1945–1990), Germany's division as an opportunity for Europe. Many years later Moïsi explained his position by pointing to his father whose fate as an Auschwitz survivor had made him "fall in love with Europe". Like Simone Veil, Jules Moïsi believed that the European integration, unification of Europe was the best way of overcoming the "tragedy of the past". During the 1990s Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Mertes and Dominique Moïsi wrote several "trilateral" (British-German-French) pleas in favour of a combined eastward enlargement and institutional modernisation of the European Union, EU. Moïsi is a member of the International Advisory Council of the ''Moscow School of Political Studies'' and of the European Council on Foreign Relations. In 2008, he published ''La géopolitique de l’émotion: Comment les cultures de peur, d’humiliation et d’espoir façonnent le monde'' (English translation 2009).For details and reviews, see http://www.thomex.com/Recommended_Reading/Recommended_Details.aspx?qrrId=60 . Cf. also , 2010.

Selected bibliography

* ''Le Nouveau Continent: Plaidoyer pour une Europe renaissante'' (with Jacques Rupnik). Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1991, * ''Les Cartes de la France à l’heure de la mondialisation'' (based on an interview with Hubert Védrine). Fayard, Paris 2000, * ''The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World.'' Random House, Anchor Books, New York 2010. * ''Un Juif improbable.'' Flammarion, Paris 2011.

Notes

External links

Moïsi's "European Observer" column at the Project Syndicate

College of Europe

Harvard

CEDEP
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