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).