Visiting professor : Jayita Sarkar
Jayita Sarkar is a visiting professor at CIENS this semester and, as such, is teaching a course entitled: Non-European Nuclear Worlds, focusing on India and South Asia. The course traces India’s nuclear trajectory in its various dimensions—national, international, and transnational—including the issue of proliferation and India’s specific position in the global nuclear order. A professor […]
Publication: France and European defense in the post-Cold War era
On October 25, the book “France and European Defense in the Post-Cold War Era: The Thread of Ariadne (1991-2001)” was published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Its author, Guillaume de Rougé, is a lecturer and researcher in international relations at the École Navale (IRENAV), specializing in European defense and security. After completing a doctorate at […]
CIENS relaunches its call for a cyber post-doc
Position to be filled in November 2025. Deadline for applications: 12 September 2025. PDF Document 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 […]
Workshop – France, Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
CIENS held its workshop on Tuesday 27 May, during which Eve Benhamou, a doctoral student in contemporary history, presented a chapter from her thesis currently being written. Her doctoral thesis, entitled: “France, Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande: from “balance” to strategic reorientation (2002-2017). Ambitions and dilemmas of […]
Workshop – Is there such a thing as a cyber deterrence?
The CIENS held its research workshop on Tuesday 13 May, during which Marie-Gabrielle Bertran, a post-doctoral cyber researcher, presented her research on the history of strategic thinking and more particularly on the links between cyber and nuclear, exploring the possibility of considering cyber as a tool for deterrence and nuclear counter-proliferation. By reading Anglo-Saxon authors […]
Workshop – The Role of LIVE OAK during the Second Berlin Crisis: A Multilateral Nuclear Crisis Management?”‘Live Oak’
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 […]