Jacques Rupnik

Jacques Rupnik

SciencesPo Paris, Research Director CERI

Eastern Europe, Consequences of EU enlargement, EU neighbourhoods 

Biography

Professor Jacques Rupnik is Research Director (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales – CERI, Fondation nationale des Sciences politiques, Paris). Jacques Rupnik was born in Prague in 1950, educated at the University of Paris and at Harvard, is currently Director of Research at CERI and Professor at Sciences Po in Paris and visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. He holds degrees in history from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne and politics from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP), a Master’s in Soviet Studies from Harvard University (1974) and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Paris I – Sorbonne (1978). Former research associate at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University (1974-1975), Eastern Europe analyst for the BBC World Service from 1977 to 1982 he has been based in Paris since he joined CERI, Sciences Po at the end of 1982. Executive director of the International Commission for the Balkans, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1995-1996) and drafter of its report Unfinished Peace (Carnegie, 1996) member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo (1999-2000) and co-author of The Kosovo Report (Oxford UP, 2000); Co-editor of the journal Transeuropéennes (1992-2003). J.Rupnik has been an advisor to the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel (1990-1992) and continued to work with him after that. He is a member of the board of the Vaclav Havel presidential library in Prague. Among the various positions held: advisor to the European Commission 2007 – 2010.Member of the scientific committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague (1998-2007); member of the scientific board of the Prague Institute of International Relations (since 2007). Member of the board of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague since 2010. Member of the board of directors of the European Partnership for Democracy in Brussels (2008-2013). Member of the Research Council of the International Forum for Democracy Studies in Washington (since 2013). He has been a visiting Professor in several European universities and in the Department of Government, Harvard University (2006), Senior Fellow at the Davis Center (2008) and at the Center for European Studies (2011) at Harvard . J.Rupnik has published a number of books and scholarly articles including The Other Europe (London, 1989, translated in a dozen of languages and a companion volume to a six hour documentary film on postwar Eastern Europe for British television). His publications include Histoire du Parti communiste tchécoslovaque (1981), Le Nouveau Continent (with D.Moisi, 1991), L’Europe des Vingt-Cinq (with Ch.Lequesne, 2004) and edited volumes such as Totalitarismes (1984), Czech and Slovak Roads to the European Union (2003), International Perspectives on the Balkans (2003), Les Banlieues de l’Europe, les politiques de voisinage de l’UE (2007), The Western Balkans and the EU: ‘the hour of Europe’, Paris, EUISS (2011), 1989 as a Political World Event: Democracy, Europe and the new international system, with an introduction by Vaclav Havel, London, Routledge, ( 2013), Démocratisation et géopolitique dans le voisinage européen, Presses de Sciences Po, 2014.

Education

Jacques Runik studied history at the University of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and political science at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, also taking courses in Russian at INALCO, before obtaining a Master of Arts in Soviet Studies at Harvard University (1974), followed by a PhD in the history of international relations at the University of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Professional career

Professor Jacques Runik worked as a PhD student at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University (1974-1975), before being recruited as a specialist on Eastern Europe at the BBC World Service (1977-1982) and becoming in 1982 a professor at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and, since 1996, director of research at the CERI (Centre d’études et des recherches internationales) of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (FNSP). He was Executive Director of the International Commission for the Balkans at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1995-1996) and member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, 1999-2000. Since 1999, he has also been a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and one of the editors of the quarterly journal Transeuropéennes. From 1990 to 1992, he was an advisor to the Czechoslovak president Václav Havel. He is also president of the “Grande Europe” club.

Distinction

Commandeur de l’ordre de Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (2002)

Bibliography

  • L’Europe des vingt-cinq : 25 cartes pour un jeu complexe (avec Christian Lequesne), Paris, Autrement, 2004 (nouvelle ed. 2005).
  • Les Européens face à l’élargissement : perceptions, acteurs, enjeux, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2004.
  • Balkan Diary, Pristina, KACI, 2004
  • International Perspectives on the Balkans, Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Clemensport, Canadian Peacekeeping Press, 2003.
  • The Road to the European Union : The Czech and Slovak Republics, (avec Jan Zielonka, dir.), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003.
  • Kosovo Report. Conflict, International Response, Lessons Learned, (en collaboration) Rapport de la Commission internationale indépendante sur le Kosovo, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Le printemps tchécoslovaque, (dir.), (préfacé par Vaclav Havel), Bruxelles, Complexe, 1999.
  • International Commission on Balkans, Unfinished Peace, (dir.), Washington, Carnegie Endowment, 1996.
  • Les Balkans, paysage après la bataille, (dir.), Bruxelles, Complexe, 1996.
  • Le déchirement des nations (dir.), Paris, Le Seuil, 1995.
  • L’Union européenne : ouverture à l’Est ? (avec Françoise de La Serre et Christian Lequesne), Paris, PUF, 1994.
  • L’autre Europe, crise et fin du communisme Paris, Odile Jacob / Points Seuil, 1993.
  • De Sarajevo à Sarajevo : l’échec yougoslave, (dir.), Bruxelles, Complexe, 1992.
  • The Other Europe, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
  • Le nouveau continent (avec Dominique Moïsi), Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1991.
  • L’Amérique dans les têtes (avec Denis Lacorne et Marie-France Toinet), Paris, Hachette, 1986.
  • Totalitarismes (avec Guy Hermet et Pierre Hassner), Paris, Economica, 1984.
  • Histoire du parti communiste tchécoslovaque, Paris, Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1981, (édition tchèque 2002).

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