| Type | Postgraduate School for diplomats,military officers andexecutives. Partner Postgraduate School of the FrenchÉcole Militaire. |
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| Established | 1986 as a graduate school - 1899 as a College byÉmile Durkheim |
| Director | Pascal Chaigneau |
Administrative staff | 150[1] |
| Students | 80 |
| Postgraduates | Masters, Ph.D. |
| Location | Paris ,France |
| Campus | Paris, Athens, La Paz, Dakar |
| Colours | Yellow, purple and white |
| Affiliations | Academic Council of the United Nations System |
| Website | www |
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TheCenter for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies (French:Centre d'Études Diplomatiques et Stratégiques, CEDS) is anaccreditedpostgraduate school and athink tank indiplomacy andinternational relations headquartered in Paris. CEDS is the graduate and doctoral school of theÉcoles des hautes études internationales et politiques (HEI-HEP), founded in 1899 by Émile Durkheim, Charles Seignobos, and Romain Rolland. In 1986,Pascal Chaigneau (HEC School of Management andParis Descartes University),[2] initiated CEDS as a specialized graduate school for officers, diplomats, and future executives. It is accredited as aPremier College by theAccreditation Service for International Colleges.[3][4]
Initially a non-academic institution reserved to serving diplomats and either generals orsenior officers, it also admitscommissioned officers at large, executives, and senior civil servants (hauts fonctionnaires) linked to the diplomatic service. Among others, its Greek branch has educated the commanding officer of theGreek Navy's Frigate Command between him attending theNaval Postgraduate School and theHarvard Kennedy School of Government.[5]
Along with theInstitut français, the CEDS is ade facto lever of the French diplomatic influence (Action française à l'étranger).[6] It received French politicianJack Lang on September 25, 2009 for the inauguration of a Curriculum in International Relations delivered jointly with theInstitut français à Athènes.[7] One of its academic advisers and professors is Carlos Antonio Carrasco,ambassador ofBolivia.[8]
The CEDS edits thepeer-reviewedacademic journalEnjeux Diplomatiques et Stratégiques. It also publishes a limited number of its students' doctoral thesis as books either independently or via the publishing housel'Harmattan in Paris, in English, in the series "Diplomacy and Strategy".
The CEDS is formally associated to the French Joint Defence College and the ECOSOC of theUnited Nations. Among its faculty areantiterrorism andICTYintelligence expert Raymond Carter,[1][9] Jacques Walch of the French Army,[10] and peace operations expert andMilitary Staff Committee representative Dominique Trinquand,[11] who is also a former alumni of CEDS. Most of the military faculty of the CEDS also comes from the FrenchInstitut des hautes études de défense nationale.
Ambassadors Michel Raimbaud (France), Carlos Carrasco (Bolivia), Cristina Aguiar (Dominican Republic), Mickaël Lebedev (Russian Federation), George Ayache (France), former cabinet memberDominique de Villepin,[12] and Patrick Boursin (France) all teach at the CEDS, along with Andrei Gratchev, former spokesperson ofMikhail Gorbachev and member of the World Political Forum.[13][14][15]
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