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Conférence organisée autour de Ian Shapiro, Professeur à l'université de Yale. Présidence : Marc Hecker, chercheur au Centre des études de sécurité, Ifri. La conférence se déroulera en anglais .
Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. He received his Ph.D from the Yale Political Science Department where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004. His most recent book is Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror (Princeton University Press, 2007).
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Nuclear Sharing in Europe: A Contested Policy That Endures
Since the end of the Cold War, the number of US nuclear weapons stationed in Europe has fallen more than seventy-fold, yet their presence in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey remains a quiet pillar of NATO's deterrence posture. This "nuclear sharing" arrangement, central to the Alliance since its founding, has long been contested by public opinion, political parties, and civil society across Europe, without ever being abandoned by host governments. This paradox lies at the heart of the seminar: why does such an unpopular policy persist?