Politique internationale is a French political affairs journal, that has in the past 29 years become the world’s leading French-language publication dedicated to international relations.

History

Publishing interviews with: George Bush, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Karl Rove, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jiang Zemin, Angela Merkel, Helmut Kohl, Romano Prodi, Silvio Berlusconi, José María Aznar, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Alvaro Uribe, Mouammar Kadhafi, Abdullah II of Jordan, Hosni Mubarak, Ariel Sharon, Nelson Mandela, etc. It was founded by Patrick Wajsman, who is its current director. Anne Le Fur is its editor in chief. It counts numerous external contributors, such as Thérèse Delpech, a researcher at the CERI institute.

Some of its collaborators or members of its team are journalists at Le Figaro: Isabelle Lasserre, Laure Mandeville, Richard Heuzé, Patrice de Méritens, at Libération: Marc Sémo, Jean-Pierre Perrin, José Garçon, Thomas Hofnung, Christophe Ayad, or at famous daily Le Monde: Michel Tatu, Mouna Naïm, Sophie Shihab, Marie Jégo, Patrice Claude. Some others also participate to Le Courrier des Balkans: Jean-Arnault Bérens, or to quarterly Le Meilleur des mondes, founded by the Cercle de l'Oratoire think tank (Thérèse Delpech, Galia Ackerman, Frédéric Encel).

Team

According to the website of Politique internationale, acceeded on 15 September 2007.

• Patrick Wajsman, founder and director
• Brigitte Adès, director of the website
• Anne Le Fur, editor in chief
• Grégory Rayko, deputy editor in chief
• Minhea Berindei, editing counsellor (historian)
• Virginie Coulloudon, editing counsellor
• Jean-Pierre Ferrier, editing counsellor
• Isabelle Lasserre, editing counsellor (deputy head of the "Foreign" pages of Le Figaro)
• Laure Mandeville, editing counsellor (international reporter at the Figaro)
• Henia Zalberg, editing counsellor
• Counsellors to the direction and heads of foreign bureaux
• Jackie Simon and Sophie de Bellemanière (USA)
• Brigitte Adès (Great-Britain)
• Galia Ackerman (Russia)
• Alberto Miguez (Spain)
• Jean-Paul Picaper (Germany)
• Emmanuel Halperin (Israel)
• Serge Berthier (Asia)

Consulting committee

• Michael Barry, Expert in Islamic civilisation, Chargé de Conférences in the Sorbonne
• Albert Bressand, director of Prométhée (Groupe de réflexion stratégique sur l'économie des réseaux), Co-President of the ThinkNet Commission.
• François Bujon de l'Estang, French embassador
• Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, member of the Académie française
• Jean-Luc Domenach, research director at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (CERI)
• Bernard Esambert, engineer at the Corps des Mines, President of the Institut Pasteur
• François Heisbourg, President of the French Committee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
• Guy Hermet, research director at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (CERI)
• Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University professor, president of the Centre d'Etudes Européennes
• François Joyaux, professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
• Jacques Julliard, Historian, deputy director of the Nouvel Observateur
• André Kaspi, Professor at the Sorbonne (Université de Paris I)
• Pierre Milza, Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
• Carlos Perez Llana, Professor at the San Andres University (Buenos Aires), former Argentine embassador
• Andrew J. Pierre, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington)
• Jean-François Prevost, Professor at the law faculty of Paris XII
• Jean-François Revel, writer, member of the Académie française
• Yves-Thibault de Silguy, former European Commissioner, general delegate of the Suez group
• Helmut Sonnenfeldt, associated professor at the Johns Hopkins University, researcher at the Brookings Institution
• Michel Tatu, editorialist in Le Monde
• Charles Zorgbibe

Collaborators

Non-exhaustive list

• Nils Aus Dem Moore
• Céline Beauregard
• Alexis Debat (Until September 2007)
• Thérèse Delpech, researcher at the CERI
• Frédéric Encel
• Jean-Pierre Filiu
• Sebastien Fumaroli
• Richard Heuzé
• Thomas Hofnung
• Alain Labrousse
• Isabelle Lasserre
• Amir Taheri
• Arielle Thédrel

References

External links

• Official website