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Marc
Nom de l'expert
HECKER

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Deputy Director of Ifri, Editor-in-Chief of Politique étrangère, and Research Fellow at the Security Studies Center, Ifri

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Research Areas:

  • Terrorism
  • Radicalization
  • Communication and conflict
  • Repercussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in France
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Marc Hecker is deputy director of Ifri and Editor-in-Chief of Politique étrangère.

He holds a PhD in political science from University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Strasbourg and holds a Masters (DEA) in International Relations from University Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne. He also spent a year at Trinity College Dublin. He taught a course on terrorism and asymmetric warfare at Sciences Po for several years.

He wrote several books including La Guerre de vingt ans. Djihadisme et contre-terrorisme au XXIe siècle (Robert Laffont, 2021, with Elie Tenenbaum; work translated into Arabic in 2024), Intifada française? (Ellipses, 2012) and War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age (Praeger, 2009 with Thomas Rid; work translated into Mandarin in 2011). He has published numerous articles in French and foreign journals (Commentaire, Etudes, Internationale Politik, Policy Review, etc.) and in the press (Le Monde, Le Figaro, Les Echos, Libération, etc.).

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Du bon usage de la terreur

Date de publication
30 April 2008
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What is the role of terror in wars in general and in asymmetric conflicts in particular? Why have democratic countries such as France and the United States been confronted to torture in Algeria and Irak? Do terrorists have to be "terrorized"? That article aims at exploring some lines of enquiry in order to answer those particularly sensitive issues.

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