Pierre Hassner
Pierre Hassner (born January 31, 1933 in Bucharest , Romania ; † May 26, 2018 ) was a French political scientist , political philosopher and expert on international relations.
Life
Pierre Hassner was born in Bucharest (Romania) in 1933 as the only son of a stockbroker into a middle-class Jewish family whose ancestors originally came from Chisinau ( Chișinău ). Like most children of Romanian and Jewish-Francophile families, Hassner first attended the French grammar school in Bucharest. He and his parents survived the pro-Nazi regime of General Ion Antonescu , responsible for persecuting Romanian Jews during World War II, by converting the family to Catholicism. In 1948, one year after the start of the Cold War and the establishment of communism in Romania, Pierre Hassner emigrated with his parents to Paris (France). Hassner was a brilliant student and graduated from the Lycée Janson de Sailly in 1950 at the early age of 16 . 1952 to 1955 he studied at the École Normale Superieure with the Agrégation in philosophy 1955, was 1956 to 1959 as a Rockefeller Fellow in the USA, where he was a student of Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago . Back in Paris he was a student of Raymond Aron at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He had been at CERI ( Center d'études et de recherches internationales ) since 1959 , where he became Research Director. He also taught international relations at Sciences Po and the European Center of Johns Hopkins University in Bologna from 1964 to 2003 .
Hassner was visiting professor in Chicago (1998), at Harvard University (2000), at the Geneva Institute des Hautes études Internationales (2004/2005), at the Université du Québec à Montréal (2007) and at the Claremont McKenna College in California (2009) .
He dealt in particular with international relations and geopolitics during the Cold War and in the period after.
In 2005 he received the Prix Alexis de Tocqueville . He was an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary doctorate from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Fonts
- Change and Security in Europe , Adelphi Papers 45 and 48, London, International Institute for Strategic Studies 1968
- Articles "Kant" and "Hegel", in Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey, History of Political Philosophy , Chicago, 1973.
- with Gilles Andréani: Justifier la guerre? De l'humanitaire au contre-terrorisme , Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2005.
- La terreur et l'empire. La violence et la paix II , Paris, Le Seuil, 2003.
- Editor with Roland Marchal: Guerre et Sociétés. États et violence après la guerre froide , Paris, Karthala, 2003.
- with Justin Vaïsse: Washington et le monde. Dilemmes d'une superpuissance , Paris, Autrement, 2003.
- La violence et la paix. De la bombe atomique au nettoyage ethnique , Paris, Éditions Esprit 1995, abridged new edition: Le Seuil. (Coll. "Points"), 2000.
- L'avenir de la guerre: entre la bombe humaine et le drone , Sciences Humaines, Hors-série, December 2012
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ Pierre Hassner, grand spécialiste des relations internationales, est mort , French , accessed on May 27, 2018
- ↑ Le Monde May 27, 2018: Pierre Hassner, grand spécialiste des relations internationales, est mort
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hassner, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French political scientist, political philosopher and expert on international relations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 2018 |