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Marc
Nom de l'expert
HECKER

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Deputy Director of Ifri, Editor-in-Chief of Politique étrangère, and Research Fellow at the Security Studies Center, Ifri

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Research Areas:

  • Terrorism
  • Radicalization
  • Communication and conflict
  • Repercussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in France
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Marc Hecker is deputy director of Ifri and Editor-in-Chief of Politique étrangère.

He holds a PhD in political science from University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Strasbourg and holds a Masters (DEA) in International Relations from University Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne. He also spent a year at Trinity College Dublin. He taught a course on terrorism and asymmetric warfare at Sciences Po for several years.

He wrote several books including La Guerre de vingt ans. Djihadisme et contre-terrorisme au XXIe siècle (Robert Laffont, 2021, with Elie Tenenbaum; work translated into Arabic in 2024), Intifada française? (Ellipses, 2012) and War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age (Praeger, 2009 with Thomas Rid; work translated into Mandarin in 2011). He has published numerous articles in French and foreign journals (Commentaire, Etudes, Internationale Politik, Policy Review, etc.) and in the press (Le Monde, Le Figaro, Les Echos, Libération, etc.).

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Publications
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Web social et djihadisme : du diagnostic aux remèdes

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08 June 2015
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From Al Qaeda to Islamic state, the international jihadist movement understands how to adapt to the web’s evolution, which it is using as an operating platform.

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War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age (traduction en mandarin)

Is a French Intifada Brewing?

Date de publication
10 April 2014
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Communication en opérations extérieures: évolution du traitement médiatique des opérations

The Terror Fringe

Date de publication
05 December 2009
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