Thomas GOMART
Directeur de l'Ifri
Expertise :
- Relations internationales
- Espace post-soviétique
- Diplomatie française
- Questions énergétiques
- Gouvernance digitale
- Géopolitique et sécurité
Docteur en histoire des relations internationales (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) et diplômé EMBA (HEC), Thomas Gomart est le directeur de l’Institut français des relations internationales, après avoir été directeur du développement stratégique (2010-2015) et directeur du Centre Russie/Nei (2004-2013).
Avant de rejoindre l’Ifri, Thomas Gomart a été allocataire-moniteur à l’Université de Marne-la-Vallée (1996-1999), officier appelé au ministère de la Défense (2000), Lavoisier Fellow à l’Institut d’État des relations internationales (Université-MGIMO – Moscou, 2001), Visiting Fellow à l’Institut d’études de sécurité (Union européenne – Paris, 2002) et Marie Curie Fellow au Department of War Studies (King’s College – Londres, 2003).
Ses travaux actuels portent sur la Russie, la gouvernance numérique, la politique étrangère française, le risque pays et les think tanks. Son plus récent livre L’Affolement du monde. 10 enjeux géopolitiques (Tallandier, 2019) a été récompensé du Prix du Livre de Géopolique 2019.
The French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) celebrated its 40th anniversary in the spring of 2019, in a completely different environment to when it was founded, which was dominated by the competition between the two “superpowers” of the time, the United States and the...
The notion of power has long been a topic of study in international relations. In the coming decade, the evolution of power will be characterized by the dynamics of concentration and dispersion.
From May 23 to 29, over 300 million Europeans are set to elect a new Parliament for a five-year term.
Data no longer should be understood as a sole commercial or regulatory issue, but rather as an actual stake of international politics. Mastering data is an issue involving different set of actors, with diverging motivations: it is a sovereignty and national security stake for states, a...
US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will severely degrade regional and global security. His decision has increased the risk of war and a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and beyond. ...
How can we define Emmanuel Macron’s foreign policy since he took office? After Nicolas Sarkozy’s brazen style of “gutsy diplomacy” and François Hollande’s “normal diplomacy”, the eighth president of the Fifth Republic seems to have opted for an agile classicism. In substance, he makes no claim...
In the week following Trump’s election, Ifri published a study to identify the likely changes in U.S. foreign policy. From the outset, this election appeared as a change in the U.S.’ trajectory, with consequences on the power relations and functioning of the international system.
Macron's presidency offers a rare chance to revive the French-German relationship just when Europe needs it most.
It remains difficult to predict who will be the eventual winner of France’s upcoming presidential elections, with the first round to take place April 23 and a runoff between the top two candidates set for May 7.
France’s current presidential campaign has created an unprecedented situation fuelled by revelations and a total absence of restraint, but it has not truly taken account of the disruptions of the last year: Brexit, the attempted coup in Turkey, the election of Donald Trump, the recapturing of...
NATO’s 70th turned out to be less like a birthday party and more a Thanksgiving dinner for a large dysfunctional family: Not all of them got on, a few snide remarks were made, but in the end everyone seemed to...
A panel with Michael Fullilove, executive director, Lowy Institute (Australia), Rohinton P. Medhora, president, Centre for International Governance Innovation (Canada), Samir Saran, president, Observer Research Foundation (India), Patrycja Sasnal, head of research and senior fellow for...
PARIS - -- French President Emmanuel Macron has been notably active on the national scene since his election last year, launching initiatives aimed at modernizing France. He has also applied the same energy to foreign policy, with a global strategy dubbed "France is back."
Europe needs better relations between Moscow and Washington. President-Elect Donald Trump spoke on the campaign trail of mending U.S. relations with Russia. ...
Rebel commander Alexander Zakharchenko smiled only slightly on hearing that he had won this weekend's elections in Donetsk, Ukraine (pictured). The results were never in doubt: Mr Zakharchenko's nominal opponents openly supported him, and his face was the only one on...
Just 147 days after Manuel Valls’ nomination as prime minister at Hôtel Matignon, the cabinet of ministers in Paris faced a new reshuffle. Some believe it will rejuvenate the French economy, which seems mired in stagnation, but most doubt that scenario is a real possibility....
Il y aura un avant et un après. En Ukraine, en Russie, dans toute l’Europe, ailleurs.
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Significant changes in global and regional energy supply and demand, as well as their influence on the political decision-making determine the need to restore proper expert analysis of problems and development perspectives.
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Why did Edward Snowden decide to disclose information related to U.S. secret services?
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Since December 2011 there is a real convergence between the perception of President Vladimir Putin and the perception of Russia, especially, in the Western media.
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