Jacques Rupnik

Jacques Rupnik is a Central and Eastern Europe specialist, an emeritus research director at Sciences Po, with degrees in history from the Sorbonne, political science from Sciences Po, Russian from INALCO, Soviet studies from Harvard University, and a PhD in the history of international relations from Paris 1 University.

He was an associate researcher at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University (1974-1975), an Eastern Europe specialist at the BBC World Service (1977-1982), an executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1995-1996), a member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo (1999-2000), and a visiting professor in the Government Department at Harvard University in 2006, an associate researcher at the Center for European Studies.

He teaches at Sciences Po, is a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague, a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, and was a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of International Relations in Prague (2007-2017). He was a co-director of the quarterly journal Transeuropéennes (1992-2003) and a member of the Council of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague (2010-2017).

Jacques Rupnik also served as an advisor to the European Commission from 2007 to 2013 and as an advisor to the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, between 1990 and 1992.

Recent publications:

• Senza Il Muro, Le due Europe dopo il crollo del communismo, Rome, Donzelli, 2019
• (ed.) L'onde de choc tchécoslovaque 1968 en Europe médiane et occidentale, Paris, Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 2020
• (ed.) Europe at the Crossroads: Democracy, Neighbourhoods, Migrations, Prague, Vaclav Havel Library, 2018
• 1989 as a Political World Event: Democracy, Europe and the new International System in the Age of Globalization, Routledge, 2014