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).

Upcoming events

25th to 29th November 2024​

Outer Space, Cyber & Hybrid Warfare: New Areas of Conflictuality – PSL Week

Location : ENS, 45 rue d'Ulm

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News

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....

Following on from the Russia-Ukraine cycle organized by CIENS last March, Frédéric Gloriant has published an article on Ukrainian and Russian nuclear trajectories since the end of the Cold War:...

Yannick Pincé, CIENS associate researcher, debated Tuesday April 30 on Elisabeth Quin’s 28 minutes with Bruno Tertrais, deputy director of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique and Laura Kayali, defense...