This year, the University of Savoie Mont Blanc and its Faculty of Law are hosting the eighth cycle of "Comparative Political Life Conferences," featuring witnesses and researchers in the social sciences and humanities (sociology, philosophy, history) whose work sheds light on major contemporary socio-political issues. For the first time, three meetings will be organized as part of student initiatives, set up and led by students.
The second lecture in the series will take place on Thursday, February 14, 2019, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., in Amphitheater 3 on the Jacob-Bellecombette campus, with Thierry De Montbrial, invited by the Savoie Departmental Council to mark the 30th anniversary of the department's decentralized cooperation, speaking on the topic "Europe facing Sino-American rivalry."
Thierry De Montbrial, engineer general of the Corps des Mines and founder and president of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) since 1979. Professor emeritus at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, director of the economics department at the École Polytechnique between 1974 and 1992, member of several French and foreign academies, recipient of numerous distinctions, he established the Center for Analysis and Forecasting (now the Center for Strategic Analysis and Forecasting) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was its first director (1973-1979). An internationally recognized specialist in geopolitics and foresight, he has published more than twenty books, some of which have been translated into several languages.
He recently coordinated: Notre intérêt national. Quelle politique étrangère pour la France ? (Our National Interest: What Foreign Policy for France? ) (2017), as well as the 36th annual edition of the Rapport annuel mondial sur le système économique et les stratégies (RAMSES) ( Annual Global Report on the Economic System and Strategies ), which he created in 1981. His latest book is entitled Vivre le temps des troubles (Living in Troubled Times) (2017).
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- Open to the public, free admission
- Find out more: Frédéric Caille, senior lecturer in political science at USMB