Jacques Rupnik
Senior Research Fellow Sciences Po
rupnik@ceri-sciences-po.org - Tel: +33 1 58 71 70 51

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).

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: Wider 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-States in Eastern Europe

Bio en français

Publications
Books
  • (with Ch.Lequesne) 1989:Europe and the World transformed, London, Routledge, 2011
  • 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
  • (ed.) Dialogues sur l'Europe, Prague, Cefres, 2009
  • "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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