Prénom de l'expert

Élie

Nom de l'expert

TENENBAUM

Director of the Security Studies Center & Coordinator of the Defense Research Laboratory, Ifri

Research Areas:

Guerrillas, terrorism, and insurgencies
Military operations
Security-defense continuum
Military history

A soldier watching a sunset on an armored infantry fighting vehicle

Security Studies Center

French soldiers during an exercise in the forest

Defense Research Unit

Nuclear ballistic missile submarine, in transit on the surface

Deterrence and Proliferation

Élie Tenenbaum is the director of Ifri's Security Studies Center and coordinator of the Defense Research Laboratory. His research focuses on guerrilla and irregular warfare as well as on military interventions and expeditionary forces.

Holding a PhD (2015) in History and graduated from Sciences Po (2010), he has been a visiting fellow at Columbia University (2013-2014) and spent a year at the War Studies Department, at King's College London (2006) ; he has taught international security at Sciences Po and international contemporary history at the Université de Lorraine.

Flagship Publications

Livres

Partisans et Centurions. Une histoire de la guerre irrégulière au XXe siècle

Élie TENENBAUM

Papers

July 2023

High-Intensity Warfare: What Challenges for the French Armed Forces?

Élie TENENBAUM

Studies

September 2023

Zeitenwende: The Bundeswehr’s Paradigm Shift

A Canadian Armed Forces Leopard tank, Exercise Common Ground, Camp Petersville, Gagetown - November 21, 2018

Léo PÉRIA-PEIGNÉ Élie TENENBAUM

Zeitenwende: The Bundeswehr’s Paradigm Shift

Livres

La Guerre de vingt ans. Djihadisme et contre-terrorisme au XXIe siècle

Marc HECKER Élie TENENBAUM

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