Presentation
Following on from last year’s overview of the various nuclear trajectories of a number of key European states, this year’s seminar will take a closer look at the Franco-German strategic and nuclear relationship, which has been at the heart of European security since the 1950s, and which the current troubled context prompts us to revisit – whether in the context of the war in Ukraine and Russia’s aggressive nuclear rhetoric, the uncertainties linked to the prospect of Donald Trump’s return to power in the United States, or the political weakening of executives in both France and Germany; the uncertainties linked to the prospect of Donald Trump’s return to power in the United States; and the political weakening of the executive in both France and Germany.
As part of a training-through-research approach, the seminar will be built around two workshops in which students will be involved: one in March on Franco-German military cooperation in the context of the Zeitenwende, and the other in April, which will look at the crucial but relatively little-known role of a Franco-German-English-American military planning body called Live Oak, which contributed to some extent to multilateral management, within the Western camp, of one of the longest-lasting and most serious nuclear crises of the Cold War, the Second Berlin Crisis (1958-1963).
The two workshops will be supervised by an international team of academics and young researchers, political scientists and historians, and the aim is to produce publications in which students who so wish will be involved.
Lecturers :
Frédéric Gloriant (directeur du CIENS/ IHMC), Yannick Pincé (chercheur associé du CIENS), Pierre-Louis Six (chercheur associé du CIENS)
Provisional timetable
Tuesdays 21 January 2025 (2h); 4 February (2h); 11 March (4h); 25 March (2h); 8 April (4h)
Time slot: 4pm-6pm for 2-hour sessions; 2pm-6.30pm for workshops
Tuesday 21 January 2025, 4-6pm: 1st introductory session to the study of the Franco-German-American strategic triangle & research methodology
Tuesday 4 February, 4-6pm: 2nd introductory session on the study of the Franco-German-American strategic triangle & research methodology
Tuesday 11 March: WORKSHOP 1, 2-6.30pm: ‘Franco-German military cooperation in practice: developments and adaptations in the context of the Zeitenwende’.
Tuesday 25 March, 4-6pm: introductory session on the Second Berlin Crisis (1958-1963)
Tuesday 8 April: WORKSHOP 2, 2pm-6.30pm: ‘The role of Live Oak during the Second Berlin Crisis: multilateral nuclear crisis management?