The Role of LIVE OAK during the Second Berlin Crisis: A Multilateral Nuclear Crisis Management?”‘Live Oak’ workshop
The ‘Live Oak’ workshop is part of a multi-annual research seminar on ‘European Nuclear Trajectories’ and invites a small group of students to learn about research through research, with the students potentially getting involved in publication projects. On 8 April, the students attended a research workshop with five researchers and took part in question-and-answer sessions. […]
Post-doc on Nuclear and Strategic Issues
MAIN MISSION The candidate must hold a doctorate already obtained (or to be obtained by September 2025 at the latest) in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in one of the disciplines relevant to the CIENS research themes (political science, contemporary history, strategic studies, law, philosophy, geography, economics, science, technology and society, international relations, sociology) and […]
Cyber post-doc
MAIN MISSION With a PhD in Human and Social Sciences (law, philosophy, political science, strategic studies, contemporary history, geography, economics, science, technology and society, international relations, sociology) or in Computer Science and Digital Science (with a focus on digital public policy), the subject of which will be related to computer security, cybersecurity and/or cyberdefence, the […]
Seminar on Live Oak
CIENS is organising a seminar on 8 April on the role of Live Oak during the Second Berlin Crisis. Triggered a few months earlier by Khrushchev, who wanted to get rid of the Allied military presence in the western sectors of Berlin, the crisis continued until 1963. Live Oak, set up in April 1959, was […]
Doctoral student on nuclear and strategic issues
WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND CONTEXT (structure hosting the post) The CIENS is a teaching and research platform devoted to nuclear defense and strategic issues in the broadest sense, with an interdisciplinary approach. It is run by a team of 4 full-time researchers and 1 project manager, and works in cooperation with associate researchers and experts, as well […]
AI and disinformation
AI is a tool for exploiting human cognitive biases by mixing the true with the false, says Maïlys Mangin, a research associate at CIENS and a specialist in the use of AI in information warfare. In this interview, she also warns us against an overly ‘technical’ interpretation. The uses of AI are part of the […]
German nuclear thinking since the end of the Cold War
As part of the research workshops organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Strategic Issues (CIENS), Johanna Möhring, PhD in political science and associate researcher, presents her latest paper: ‘Germany’s nuclear mentality in political party discourse: Continuity and change through crises’. She explains how German nuclear thinking has evolved since the end of the Cold War. […]
PSL Week Serious Game : Behind the Scenes
Hugo Zylberberg, cybersecurity consultant and moderator of the ‘Serious Game’ at PSL Week, held from 25 to 29 November, looks at how the crisis scenario is developed and played out. The serious game that we ran with Jean-Marc Gailis (4th year student in the geography department at the ENS) is based on a cyber attack […]
‘Cyber makes it possible to enter into conflict while remaining below the threshold of war’.
Marie-Gabrielle Bertran has just defended her thesis in geopolitics at the University of Paris 8 on Digital sovereignty in Russia: a geopolitical analysis of the challenges and limits of Russia’s cyber power strategy. She joins CIENS in January 2025 as a post-doctoral researcher where she will run the cyber unit and carry out a research […]
‘What interests me is the way in which cyber tools can be used to influence public opinion’.
At 23, Pauline Mortel has a rich and eclectic academic background. Passionate about strategic issues and geopolitics, she plans to take the CIENS minor, whose interdisciplinary nature and teaching combining the practical experience of practitioners with an academic perspective appealed to her from the outset. From an early age, Pauline was fascinated by history, geopolitics […]