Research topics
Russia’s Foreign Policy – Russian Security and Defense Policy – Russian Defense Industry
| Course • Deputy Director in charge of Research, Foundation for Strategic Research (since 2017) • Research Master at the Strategic Research Foundation (since 2007) • Researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research (1998-2007) • Researcher at the Center for Research and Studies on Strategies and Technologies (CREST), Ecole Polytechnique (1991-1998) • Seminar manager Geopolitics of Eurasia In the Humanities and Social Sciences Department of the École Polytechnique (since 2008) • Course manager Geopolitics of Russia At the Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Law of the Catholic Institute of Paris (since 2020) • Seminar manager Geopolitics of Russia At the Joint Defense/War School College (2000-2007) • Thesis defended at the University of Paris II, under the direction of Julian Fernandez: the military factor in the security policy of the Russian Federation at thePutin Era (2000-2019) |
| Research Isabelle Facon’s common thread of research concerns the place of the military factor in the foreign policy and security policy of post-Soviet Russia. Dealing with Russian defense policy in its interactions with the international project of Russia and its internal situation, Isabelle Facon devoted many works to the restructuring of military tools, to civil-military relations and to the defense diplomacy of Russia. Developments within the industrial and technological defense base are another major research issue, as is the place of nuclear power in the power project and the security policy of the Russian Federation. A central focus of his research on Russian foreign policy concerns the springs and effects of the rebalancing of this policy towards Asia, beyond the relationship with China, another structuring subject of attention. |
| Books Russia Turkey. A challenge to the West? (Book management), Pastes Compounds, 2022, 219 p. The New Russian Army, The Observatory Notebooks, The Inventory, 2021, 121 p. Russia: the paths of power, Artège, 2010, 192 p. Selection of articles or chapters of books “Sino-Russian military and security cooperation. more strategic accents, French directory of international relations, Panthéon-Assas University / Thucydide Center, 2024, pp. 435-448 “Military Exercises: The Russian Way”, in Stephen Blank (Ed.), The Russian Military in Contemporary Perspective, Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), U.S. Army War College, 2019, pp. 219-248 “Russia and Southeast Asia”, in Serge Granger and Dominique Caouette (dir.), Southeast Asia at the crossroads, Presses of the University of Montreal, 2019, pp. 199-215 Russia’s National Security Strategy and Military Doctrine and their implications for the EU, Directorate-General for External Policies, Policy Department, Sub-Committee on Security and Defense, European Parliament, February 1, 2017, 27 p. «Russian Strategic Culture in the 21st Century: Redefining the West-East Balance”, in Ashley J. Tellis, Alison Szalwinski, Michael Wills (Ed.), “Understanding Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific”, Strategic Asia 2016-2017, The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2016, pp. 62-89 “Russia’s Perspectives on the Us Pivot: Opportunities and Constraints in the Asia Pacific”, in Hugo Meijer (ed.), Origins and Evolutions of the US Rebalance Toward Asia. Diplomatic, Military, and Economic Dimensions, Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, pp. 254-273 “The Russian Way of War”, in Yves Boyer & Julian Lindley-French (eds.), Oxford Handbook of War, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 273-286 |
