Publications

l_empire_au_miroir

 

Flux RSS

Who are we ?

« Euro-Power / Europe Puissance » or E.P. is a think tank born in 2005. Its goal is to promote the notion of European Power for policy makers and European citizens. Nowadays, Europe has an alternative: it can choose a road to power, that suppose a real freedom in thought and action, or a role of a weak follower, without an impact on international relations. As explained by the doctrine on European Security, adopted by all the States of the Union, “Europe has to be ready to take on its share of burden in international security and in order to build a better world”. Hence, it is through this vision that we work to promote a typically European vision.

Read more

 

Euro-power founding members

 

Nicolas Bizel

DiplôNicolas Bizel is graduated from Sciences Po Paris and from University Paris-Dauphine. He is now European Administrator at the Delegation of the European Union in Morocco. He is specialized in the European budget and economy analysis, as well as in the international financial system.

 

Didier Chaudet

Didier Chaudet is an expert of Greater Central Asia (Post-Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan). He has been a Lecturer on Security Issues in Greater Central Asia at Sciences Po, Paris, since 2007. Previously, he was Research Fellow at IFRI or French Institute of International Relations (2007) and a Fox Fellow at Yale University (2006/2007). He lived in Central Asia, in particular in Kazakhstan, where he taught IR at Al Farabi University (2005-2006), and in the Middle East, in Egypt in particular. His research interests include the foreign policies of the Great Powers in Greater Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, as well as the security issues related to those areas. In his areas of specialties, he participated in international conferences and has been consulted by French media (newspapers, radio, television). Among other things, he is the author of the book the American Neoconservative Movement toward Islam: Analysis of a post-9/11 answer to jihadism, Paris, UniversCités, 2005 (in French) and one of the authors (with Florent Parmentier and Benoît Pélopidas) of When Empire meets nationalism. Power politics in the US and Russia, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009 (French and Romanian versions have been published previously).

 

Florent Parmentier

Florent Parmentier, Ph.D in political science, is currently Academic Adviser and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. Before, he was a lecturer at the International Relations and Diplomatic studies of Chisinau in 2000, and assistant for the University of Nancy in 2004-2005. His research interests include the European foreign policy toward the Post-Soviet European neighbours and European energy politics. He is member of the board of the French Association of Ukrainian studies (AFEU), and analyst for the French-speaking website www.moldavie.fr. He is the author of Moldova at the crossroads, 2003 (in French), Moldova. The asset of la francophonie, 2010 (in French and Romanian) and one of the authors of (with Didier Chaudet and Benoît Pélopidas) When Empire meets nationalism. Power politics in the US and Russia, Ashgate, 2009 (French and Romanian versions have been published previously).