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Jacques Rupnik
Senior Research Fellow Sciences Po
rupnik@ceri-sciences-po.org

Holds degrees in history from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne, political science 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 of international relations from the University of Paris I (1978). Former associated researcher at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University (1974-1975); Eastern Europe expert for the BBC World Service (1977-1982); executive director of the International Commission for the Balkans, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1995-1996); member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo (1999-2000); and visiting professor at the Department of Government, Harvard University (2006). Editor-in-chief of Transeuropéennes (1992-2003). Advisor to the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel (1990-1992); advisor to the European Commission since 2007.
Member of the scientific committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague (since 1998); visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges (since 1999); member of the scientific board of the Prague Institute of International Relations (since 2007).
Participates in the CERI Transversal Projects “Beliefs and Practices of Democracy” and “The End of Violence.”

Teaching
- Sciences Po: “Trajectories of democratization and European integration”; “Central Europe, the Balkans and the new neighborhood of the EU” (Master’s level)
- College of Europe, Bruges: The Great Europe: EU and its neighbors”

Research interests
- Democratic transition in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
- European integration (the enlargement of the EU and neighborhood policies).
- Nationalism: the demise of federal States and the building of the Nation-State in Eastern Europe

Bio en français

Publications
Books
  • Les banlieues de l'Europe. Les politiques de voisinage de l’Union européenne, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2007.
  • 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, Prishtina, KACI, 2004.
  • Kosovo Report. Conflict, International Response, Lessons Learned, (en collaboration) Rapport de la Commission internationale indépendante sur le Kosovo, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • L'Union européenne : ouverture à l'Est ?, avec F. de La Serre et Ch. Lequesne, Paris, PUF, 1994.
  • L'autre Europe, crise et fin du communisme, Paris, Odile Jacob / Points Seuil, 1990 et 1993.
  • Le nouveau continent, avec Dominique Moïsi, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1991.
  • Democrazie da inventare, avec V. Belohradsky et P. Kende, Torino, Fondazione G. Agnelli, 1991.
  • The Other Europe, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.
  • 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 Sciences Po, 1981, (Czech ed. 2002).

Editorships of books and special issues
  • "Charte 77, origines et héritages",L a nouvelle alternative, vol 22, n° 72-73, 2007.
  • Les banlieues de l’Europe. Les politiques de voisinage de l’Union européenne, (dir), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2007, 282 p.
  • "La Pologne", (dir), Pouvoirs, n° 118, 2006.
  • The Road to the European Union : The Czech and Slovak Republics, (avec Jan Zielonka, dir.), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003.
  • International Perspectives on the Balkans, (dir), Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Clemensport, Canadian Peacekeeping Press, 2003.
  • De Sarajevo à Sarajevo : l'échec yougoslave, (dir.), Bruxelles, Complexe, 1992.
  • Le printemps tchécoslovaque. 1968, (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.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Contributions to edited volumes
  • " Democratization by extension : Searching for re-insurance", in Zaki Laïdi (ed.) The reception of Europe : EU preferences in a globalised world , Londres, Routledge, 2008.
  • "De l’anti-politique à la crise de la démocratie. Que reste-t-il de l’héritage de la dissidence ?", in Chistian Lequesne, Monika MacDonagh-Pajerova (dir.), La citoyenneté démocratique dans l’Europe des vingt-sept, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2007, pp. 101-126.
  • "Les nouvelles frontières de l’Europe", in Bronislav Geremek, Robert Picht (dir.), Visions d’Europe, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2007, pp. 299-317.
  • "Masaryk et Havel : l’éthique et la politique à l’épreuve du pouvoir", in Antoine Mares (dir.), T. G.  Masaryk : un intellectuel en politique, Paris, Institut d’études slaves, 2007, pp. 225-236.
  • "The populist back lash in East Europe", in Martin Butora (ed.), Democracy and populism in Central Europe, Bratislava, IVO, 2007, pp. 161-171.
  • "The Balkan neighbourhood", in W. van Muers, J. Deimel (eds), The Balkan Prism, Munchen, Kubon & Saner, 2007, pp. 461-473.
  • "America's best friends in Europe : East-Central European perceptions and policies towards the US" in T.Judt and D.Lacorne (eds), With US or Against US, studies in global anti-americanism, N.Y., Palgrave 2005.
  • "The demise of Balkan nationalism? A sceptical view" inJ.Batt (ed.), The Western Balkans: moving on, Paris, ISS,2004.
  • "Divorce by Mutual Consent or War of Secession? Czechoslovakia and Yougoslavia" in G.Glasson-Deschaumes and R.Ivekovic, (eds) Partitions, Oxford UP, 2002.

Other
  • The implications of the Czecho-Slovak Divorce for EU Enlargement", EUI Working Papers, European University Institute, RSC 2000/66, décembre 2000, 31 p.
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