Pascal Boniface

French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs

Founding Director

BIO

Pascal Boniface is Director of the Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS). Pascal Boniface also directs La Revue internationale et stratégique (published quarterly since 1991) and L'Année stratégique (published annually since 1985). He has written or edited nearly seventy books on international relations, nuclear and disarmament issues, power relations, French foreign policy, the impact of sport on international relations (he developed the concept of the geopolitics of sport), the Middle East conflict and its repercussions in France. Many of his books have become classics, regularly reissued and translated into several languages. Pascal Boniface is a member of the French Football Federation's National Ethics Council. He is also a consultant on geopolitical issues for the Musée de l'Olympisme and a geopolitical consultant for the NGO Peace and Sport.