Dominique Moïsi (born 21 October 1946) is a French

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and writer. He was a co-founder and is a senior advisor of the

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-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), ''Pierre Keller Visiting Professor'' at

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, and the chairholder for

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at the

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, the oldest educational institution in European affairs, in Natolin. He is also a Fellow a
CEDEP
the European Centre for Executive Development. Moïsi regularly contributes

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articles and essays to the ''

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'', ''

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'', the Project Syndicate as well as '' Die Welt'' and ''

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''. Moïsi is married to the historian and writer Diana Pinto. The couple has two sons.

Life

His father Jules Moïsi was an Auschwitz survivor, member of the Mauthausen concentration camp's kommando. Dominique Moïsi studied

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at the Sorbonne and at

. He was research assistant to Raymond Aron and taught at the

École nationale d'administration The (; ENA; ) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by the then Provisional Government of the French Republic, provisional chief of government Charles de Gaulle and principal co-author of the Constitution of France, 1958 Constitution M ...

(ENA), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. He was editor in chief of Politique étrangère. After the fall of the

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in 1989, he aroused attention as one of the first French commentators to welcome the conceivable end of Germany's division as an opportunity for Europe. Many years later Moïsi explained his position by pointing to his father whose fate as an Auschwitz survivor had made him "fall in love with Europe". Like Simone Veil, Jules Moïsi believed that the unification of Europe was the best way of overcoming the "tragedy of the past". During the 1990s Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Mertes and Dominique Moïsi wrote several "trilateral" (British-German-French) pleas in favour of a combined eastward enlargement and institutional modernisation of the EU. Moïsi is a member of the International Advisory Council of the ''Moscow School of Political Studies'' and of the

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. In 2008, he published ''La géopolitique de l’émotion: Comment les cultures de peur, d’humiliation et d’espoir façonnent le monde'' (English translation 2009).For details and reviews, see http://www.thomex.com/Recommended_Reading/Recommended_Details.aspx?qrrId=60 . Cf. also , 2010.

Selected bibliography

* ''Le Nouveau Continent: Plaidoyer pour une Europe renaissante'' (with Jacques Rupnik). Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1991, * ''Les Cartes de la France à l’heure de la mondialisation'' (based on an interview with Hubert Védrine). Fayard, Paris 2000, * ''The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World.''

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, New York 2010. * ''Un Juif improbable.'' Flammarion, Paris 2011.

Notes

External links

Moïsi's "European Observer" column at the Project Syndicate

College of Europe

Harvard

CEDEP
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