The Interdisciplinary Center for Strategic Studies (ICSS or CIENS in French) is a research and teaching platform dedicated to nuclear defense and strategic issues in the broadest sense, with an interdisciplinary approach and as part of a partnership between ENS, ANSSI (Agence nationale de sécurité des systèmes d’information), the French Ministry of Defense and CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives).

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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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...