Arnaud Blin is a French-American historian and political scientist. He has focused mainly on international relations and the history of war and peace, including the history of terrorism. He has published almost exclusively in French. His ''History of Terrorism'' (with G. Chaliand) was originally published in France and translated into English by the

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. Arnaud Blin blends historical analysis with current events and includes analysis of the Peace of Westphalia and the Westphalian system. He has written on the

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and philosophical ideas such as the

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ian idea of the

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, or the

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ian theory of

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as applied to US Foreign policy through the doctrine of democratic peace. He has worked for several research institutions, including the Institut Diplomacie et Défense, the French Institute for Strategic Analysis and the Ecole de la paix de Grenoble. Since 2008, he has been coordinator, with

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, of the Forum for a new World Governance. Blin has degrees from

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and

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Publications

In French

* ''Comment Roosevelt fit entrer les Etats-Unis dans la guerre'', André Versaille, février 2011 () * ''Tamerlan'', Perrin, April 2007 () * ''11 septembre, la terreur démasquée'', Cavalier Bleu, août 2006 () * Collectif, ''100 propositions du Forum Social Mondial'', Charles Léopold Mayer Publishing, 2006 () * ''Histoire du terrorisme'', Bayard Culture, March 2006 () * ''Le terrorisme'', Cavalier Bleu, coll. Idées reçues, numéro 108, 128 p. () * ''Le désarroi de la puissance, Les Etats-Unis vers la guerre permanente ?'', Lignes De Repères, October 2004 () * 1648, ''La paix en Westphalie, ou la naissance de l'Europe politique moderne'', Complexe, coll. « Questions à L'histoire », 2006, 240 p. ()

In English

* ''The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to Al Qaeda'', University of California Press, 2007 * ''War and Religion: Europe and the Mediterranean from the First through the Twenty-First Centuries'', University of California Press, 2019.

References

External Links

Arnaud Blin's articles on the Forum for a new World Governance

Arnaud Blin's books on alibris.com
21st-century French historians Living people French male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) Georgetown University alumni The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni Harvard University alumni {{France-historian-stub