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Biographie

Dr. Amélie Férey is Director of Data Projects and Institutional Relations at the Institut de recherche stratégique de l'École militaire (IRSEM). Her research focuses on the contemporary transformations of conflict, with particular expertise in Israeli defense policy.

She is the author of Les mots, armes d’une nouvelle guerre (Le Robert, 2023). Her doctoral research, defended at Sciences Po in 2018, led to the publication of Assassinats ciblés. Critique du libéralisme armé (CNRS Éditions, 2020), which examines the moral and legal justifications for the use of force from a comparative perspective (Israel and the United States).

From 2021 to 2026, she served as Head of the Defense Research Laboratory at the Ifri. She is also Scientific Director of the Chairs on Sovereignty Studies, a joint initiative of Institut polytechnique de Paris, PSL University, and ESCP Business School.

Dr. Férey teaches at Sciences Po, École polytechnique, and Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas.

Amélie Férey was recognized in the Institut Choiseul 2026 ranking, “The 40 of Defense.”