Pascal BONIFACE

Director of the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS)

Pascal Boniface is director of the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS).

Pascal Boniface also directs the Revue internationale et stratégique (published quarterly since 1991) and L'Année stratégique (published annually since 1985).

Dr. Pascal BONIFACE has published or edited more than sixty books dealing with International Relations, Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament, European Security, French International Policy, Sport in the International Relations (he developed the concept of Geopolitics of Sport) and also the conflict in the Middle-East and its impact in France. Many of them have become classics, reissued on a regular basis and translated in several languages.

Pascal Boniface publishes numerous articles in international geopolitical journals, regularly appears in the national and international media, both written and audiovisual, and gives numerous lectures and debates in France and abroad. He is one of the most followed geopolitologists on social networks, notably Twitter and Facebook. He deciphers international news on video on his YouTube channel and his weekly podcast "Comprendre le monde", as well as through his various blogs: IRIS, Mediapart and personal.

Pascal Boniface is a member of the National Ethics Council of the French Football Federation. He is also a consultant on geopolitical issues for the Museum of Olympism and a geopolitical consultant for the NGO Peace and Sport.

He has been made a Chevalier of the French Award for distinguished services in public and private capacity, Officier of the Legion of honour and Chevalier of the Order for the Arts and the Letters. He has received the “Prix Vauban” in 2011.