IRSEM

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The French Military School Strategic Research Institute (in French: L’Institut de recherche stratégique de l'École militaire), known by its French acronym IRSEM, is an independent organism of the Direction générale des relations internationales et de la stratégie (DGRIS) of the French Ministry of Armed Forces.[1][2] Physically located in the buildings of the École militaire, it has a staff of around forty people. It was managed from 2009 to 2015 by Frédéric Charillon. Its director since 2016 is Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer.[3][4]

Part of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, which fully finances it,[5] it advertises itself as a research institute. At the same time, IRSEM has an operational vocation: it has military personnel on its team, works for the benefit of the ministry, including the Armed Forces General Staff, and plays a role in the lobbying efforts of the French military. The institute therefore defines itself as being hybrid in nature.

It is benchmarked as number 124th among Western European policy institutes in the ranking of think tanks of the University of Pennsylvania.[6]

History[]

Created de facto in September 2009 and de jure by a decree of October 15, 2010,[7][8] IRSEM was attached to the Armed Forces Staff (EMA) for 5 years before coming under the supervision of the Directorate of General International Relations and Strategy in 2015.[2] As of September 2020, IRSEM was part of the portfolio of the Director of defense strategy, foresight and counter-proliferation of the DGRIS.[9]

It is the result of the merger of the Center for Defense Social Sciences Studies (C2SD), the Center for Studies and Research in Higher Military Education (CEREMS) and the Center for Defense History Studies (CEHD). It also absorbs the research activity of CHEAr.[10]

Objectives[]

IRSEM has four missions, namely research, both internal (for the benefit of the ministry) and external (published);[11] "strategic succession" (support for young researchers, through doctoral and postdoctoral funding and a monthly doctoral seminar);[12] contribution to higher military education (at the War School and at the Center for Advanced Military Studies); and contribution to public debate.[13]

Publications[]

IRSEM has its own collections in different formats (Strategic Briefs, Research Notes, Studies and the scientific journal Les Champs de Mars at the Presses de Sciences Po). In addition, its researchers regularly publish abroad, in French and in English, books and academic articles, and articles promoting research.[14]

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References[]

  1. ^ "IRSEM | Normandy for Peace". normandiepourlapaix.fr.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Arrêté du 22 décembre 2015 portant organisation de l'institut de recherche stratégique de l'Ecole militaire - Légifrance". www.legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  3. ^ Vilmer, Jean-Baptiste Jeangene (1 June 2020). "The forever-emerging norm of banning nuclear weapons". Journal of Strategic Studies: 1–27. doi:10.1080/01402390.2020.1770732. Retrieved 19 April 2021. The author is the director of IRSEM, an external body of the General Directorate for International Relations and Strategy (DGRIS)
  4. ^ "Nouveau directeur de l'IRSEM". www.defense.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 2016-08-31.
  5. ^ Nationale, Assemblée. "Défense : Environnement et prospective de la politique de défense". Assemblée nationale (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  6. ^ https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=think_tanks
  7. ^ Team (ISSAT), International Security Sector Advisory. "Institut de recherche stratégique de l'Ecole militaire (IRSEM)". International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT).
  8. ^ "Arrêté du 15 octobre 2010 portant organisation de l'institut de recherche stratégique de l'Ecole militaire - Légifrance".
  9. ^ "Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'Ecole Militaire". onthinktanks.org.
  10. ^ "Dix ans de l'IRSEM (2009-2019)" (PDF). Irsem.fr (in French).
  11. ^ "Revue Les Champs de Mars". Cairn.info (in French).
  12. ^ ""La relève stratégique : une première histoire du soutien aux jeunes chercheurs"". Cairn.info (in French).
  13. ^ "La lettre de l'Institut de recherche stratégique de l'École militaire". www.irsem.fr. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  14. ^ "Publications". www.irsem.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-13.

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