Dominique Moïsi (born 21 October 1946) is a French

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

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

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-based

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(IFRI), ''Pierre Keller Visiting Professor'' at

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, and the chairholder for Geopolitics at the

College of Europe The College of Europe (french: Collège d'Europe) is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its main campus in Bruges, Belgium and a second campus in Warsaw, Poland. The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 by leading ...

, the oldest educational institution in European affairs, in

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. He is also a Fellow a
CEDEP
the European Centre for Executive Development. Moïsi regularly contributes op-ed articles and essays to the ''

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'', '' Foreign Affairs'', the Project Syndicate as well as ''

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'' and ''

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''. Moïsi is married to the historian and writer

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. The couple has two sons.

Life

His father Jules Moïsi was an Auschwitz survivor. Dominique Moïsi studied

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at the

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and at

. He was research assistant to

Raymond Aron Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his 19 ...

and taught at the

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(ENA), the

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, and the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. He was editor in chief of

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. After the fall of the Berlin Wall 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 Simone Veil (; ; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. ...

, 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 Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a spe ...

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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 Hubert Védrine (; born 31 July 1947) is a French Socialist politician. He is an advisor at Moelis & Company. Early life and career Following a history degree and graduating from both Sciences Po and ENA, Védrine had toyed with the idea of ...

). 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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