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Julien
Nom de l'expert
NOCETTI

Intitulé du poste
Domaine d'expertises En

Research Areas:

  • Digital geopolitics: cyber-conflict; Internet governance; artificial intelligence ; 5G; data
  • Digital/cyber strategy of the Russian authorities; digital mobilization; information warfare
  • Russian foreign and security policy
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Russia/Eurasia Center
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Center for Geopolitics of Technology
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Biographie En

Julien Nocetti is an associate researcher at the Geopolitics of Technology Center and at the Russia/Eurasia Center of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri). He is currently an advisor on digital, cyber and technological affairs at the Center for Analysis, Forecasting and Strategy (CAPS) of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. He is also an associate member of the GEODE center (Geopolitics of the Datasphere – Paris 8 University) and teaches technology diplomacy at the Sciences Po School of International Affairs (PSIA). He was a teacher-researcher in international relations and strategic studies at the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military Academy (2019-2023) and a researcher at the Russia/NEI Center at Ifri between 2009 and 2019. He holds a doctorate in political science from the National Institute of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations (INALCO).

His research focuses, on the one hand, on digital geopolitics, particularly cyber conflict, international governance of the Internet and artificial intelligence and the manipulation of information. On the other hand, a specialist in Russian foreign policy, he works on Russian policies on cybersecurity and information warfare, as well as on Moscow's policy in the Middle East.

On all of these issues, he regularly participates in international conferences and publishes comments in the French and international press; information warfare
Russian foreign and security policy.

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A Splintered Internet? Internet Fragmentation and the Strategies of China, Russia, India and the European Union

Date de publication
27 February 2024
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From the Covid-19 pandemic to the ramifications of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, international events are fueling fears of an accelerated fragmentation of the global Internet. 

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Europe and the Geopolitics of 5G: Walking a Technological Tightrope

Date de publication
31 January 2022
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The acute Sino-American tensions which started in 2018 have been coupled with controversies around 5G technology, exemplified by the spotlight placed on Chinese equipment manufacturer Huawei and the security risks associated with its use. For Europe, the 5G challenge at the international level is drawing a very complex landscape. 

Is Europe a “Digital Colony” of the United States?

Date de publication
07 September 2021
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Edward Snowden’s revelations, the Cambridge Analytica affair and the digital transformation accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis have all shown Europe's technological dependence on foreign powers. 

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The Outsider: Russia in the Race for Artificial Intelligence

Date de publication
08 December 2020
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When analyzing the global state of play around artificial intelligence (AI), Russia so far looks like an “outsider” compared to the two technological leaders, the United States and China.

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Europe Facing the Digitization of Work: The Political Risks

Date de publication
12 September 2018
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The nature of work has been remarkably transformed in a short period of time through the combined effect of globalization and technological disruptions. Ongoing technological breakthroughs, carried by increasingly digitalized and automated economic activities, and the “democratization” of artificial intelligence, heighten fears of massive job destructions and the deepening of social inequalities, to the detriment of downgraded and pauperized middle classes.

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Europe: Subject or Object in the Geopolitics of Data?

Date de publication
24 July 2018
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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 democratic stake for people (personal data), and a fundamental source of value creation for companies. 

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The Geopolitics of Cyberconflict

Date de publication
06 June 2018
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Cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and more sophisticated.

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Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next French President

Date de publication
31 March 2017
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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 Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad, Xi Jinping’s declarations about “economic globalization”, or the behavior of North Korea. The debate, or rather its absence, can be looked at in two ways.

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Le monde selon Trump. Anticiper la nouvelle politique étrangère américaine

Date de publication
16 November 2016
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What will become of US foreign policy under Donald Trump? A selection of Ifri researchers has come together to offer their thoughts on this question. Our experts cover an array of topics through 14 contributions, ranging from the future Sino-American relations, through US engagement in the Middle East, to the prospects of a renewed transatlantic relationship. This analysis intends to help readers anticipate the outcomes of this election in order to facilitate decision-making.

Russia's 'dictatorship-of-the-law' approach to internet policy

Date de publication
10 November 2015
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Julien Nocetti outlines the new geopolitical challenges posed by the current stand-off between Russia and the West over Ukraine, which have added to the general defensive leitmotiv in the Russian domestic internet governance with a tighter grip on online communications and transactions, which often contradicts the announced goals of economic stimulation in the information and communications technologies (ICTs) area as one of the vehicles of non-commodity based growth.

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