Return to the East: the Russian Threat and the French Pivot to Europe’s Eastern Flank | dr Élie Tenenbaum | 20.05.2025

Center for French Culture and Francophone Studies and the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw invite you to the first session of the “Geopolitical Tuesday” seminar entitled: 

  

Return to the East: the Russian Threat and the French Pivot to Europe’s Eastern Flank 

 

dr Élie Tenenbaum (IFRI) 

  

Tuesday May 20, 2025 – 3 pm to 4.30 (CET) 

WNPiSM UW, sala S. Czarnowskiego

ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 3

Seminar in English 

 

Bio 

Élie Tenenbaum is the director of Ifri’s Security Studies Center. After years of focusing on irregular warfare, counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism, his research now leads him to cover more general strategic issues, in particular European security and defense policy. 

He holds PhD (2015) in History and graduated from Sciences Po (2010), he has been a visiting fellow at Columbia University (2013-2014) and spent a year at the War Studies Department, at King’s College London (2006) ; he has taught international security at Sciences Po and international contemporary history at the Université de Lorraine. He is the author of numerous articles and books on history and strategy, including The Twenty Year War: Jihadism & Counter-Terrorism in the 21st Century, with Marc Hecker (Robert Laffont, Prix du Livre Géopolitique 2021).