Prénom de l'expert

Amélie

Nom de l'expert

ZIMA

Research Fellow, Head of European and Transatlantic Security Program, Security Studies Center

Research areas:

NATO
Poland: political system and defense policy
Political uses of history in international relations

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Security Studies Center

European & Transatlantic Security

A Research Fellow at Ifri's Security Studies Center since March 2024, Amélie Zima holds a PhD in political science from Paris-Nanterre University. Her thesis focused on the first post-Cold War enlargement of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and was awarded the first prize of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN). Her work focuses on NATO and the Polish political system.

Amélie Zima was a research associate at Cefres in Prague (French Center for Research in Social Sciences) and at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ISP-PAN). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the French Center of the Warsaw University (OKF-UW). Prior to joining Ifri, she was a researcher at IRSEM (The Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School). She has taught political science, European affairs and international relations at the Universities of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris-Nanterre and at Sciences Po.

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Publications

Studies

January 29, 2023, in RUTJA (ESTONIA). French, British and Estonian soldiers from BattleGroup eFP participated in the BALTIC HAWK mission

Return to the East: the Russian Threat and the French Pivot to Europe's Eastern Flank

13 June 2024

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has flung Europe’s Eastern flank into a new phase of strategic confrontation. It has had a major effect on France’s position, which was previously somewhat timid, leading it to significantly reinforce its deterrence and defense posture in support of the collective defense of Europe, in the name of strategic solidarity and the protection of its security interests.

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