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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In the event of cohabitation with the RN, who would have control of the French army? Yannick Pincé answers questions from Justine Brabant and Fabien Escalona on Médiapart....
Maïlys Mangin, a doctorate in political science, joined as a post-doc researcher the Centre interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux stratégiques (CIENS) in November 2023....
Yannick Pincé, a research associate at CIENS, has published an article for the Conversation on the consequences of enshrining nuclear weapons in the French Constitution....
The post-doctoral student will contribute to the development of CIENS' research and teaching activities on nuclear and strategic issues....

Yannick Pincé was interviewed on RFI for Franck Alexandre’s daily column, Lignes de Défense. Link to the interview.

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The post-doctoral fellow will develop the cyber pole of CIENS' research and teaching activities....