HomeAuthorsBruno Tertrais Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography Senior FellowSuivre Bruno Tertrais is Deputy Director of the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS), a leading French think-tank on international security issues. A graduate in law and politics, he obtained his doctorate under the supervision of Pierre Hassner. After working at NATO's Parliamentary Assembly, he worked for the Ministry of Defence and the RAND Corporation, and joined the FRS in 2001. He was a member of the committees in charge of the White Papers on Defence and National Security in 2007-2008 and 2012-2013. He has been a contributor to Institut Montaigne's studies since 2017 and published Le défi démographique (2018). His latest publications include: L'Atlas des frontières (Les Arènes, 2016, Prix de la Société de Géographie); Le Président et la Bombe (Odile Jacob, 2017, Prix du Livre géopolitique); La Revanche de l'histoire (Odile Jacob, 2018); Le choc démographique (Odile Jacob, 2020). Twice every month, he publishes a column in L'Express called "Le Regard du stratège".PublicationsNoteJuly 2018The Demographic Challenge: Myths and Realities03/20/2023After the Fall. Must We Prepare for the Breakup of Russia? Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 02/23/2023After the Fall. Must We Prepare for the Breakup of Russia? Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 12/14/2022The Fall of Russia Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 09/02/2022The Never-Ending Iranian Nuclear Saga Is Nowhere Near Its Conclusion Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 07/07/2022Back to the Future? NATO after Madrid Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 05/31/2022Ukraine: Five Scenarios For the Coming Months Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 04/21/2022From Sarajevo to Mariupol: what the Yugoslav Wars can teach us about Ukrain... Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 04/12/2022Is It 1981 All Over Again? Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 03/02/2022Tell Me How It Ends: Analogies and Scenarios for the Ukraine war Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 02/14/2022Why Ukraine Matters to Russia: The Demographic Factor Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 01/07/2022Of Ultimatums and Ukraine - And Why NATO Enlargement Is Not the Problem Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 11/17/2021Reassurance and Deterrence in the Mediterranean: the Franco-Greek Defense D... Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 10/15/2021Climate Refugees: Do Not Hype Up The Problem Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 10/04/2021After AUKUS: How Could France Reboot Its Indo-Pacific Strategy? Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 09/20/2021France, America and the Indo-Pacific after AUKUS Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 08/24/2021Endgame in Afghanistan: Should We Be Worried? Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 08/06/2021Armenia-Azerbaijan: The Fire Beneath the Ashes Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 07/19/2021Weapons of Mass Debate - Time to Talk about Nuclear Deterrence in Europe (A... Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 07/07/2021Past the Virus - Migrations, Mobility and Pandemics: Return to Normalcy? Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 05/26/2021Does China’s Population Bust Herald Our Own? Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 03/17/2021The UK’s Integrated Review: What Global Britain Means for France Georgina Wright Resident Senior Fellow and Director of the Europe Program 01/07/2021Do We Need a Global Alliance of Democracies? Michel Duclos Special Advisor and Resident Senior Fellow - Geopolitics and Diplomacy 10/08/2020Whose Sea? Untangling the Eastern Mediterranean Great Game Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 08/17/2020Through the Looking Glass - Counterpart and The Last Ship: Geopolitics and ... Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 12/21/2018Portrait of Kim Jong-un - Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republi... Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 10/10/2018Demography and Society: Overcoming Fantasies - The Perspectives of Hakim El... Hakim El Karoui Senior Fellow - Arab World, Islam 09/24/2018North Korea, an Embrace Before the Apocalypse? Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography 03/19/2018Syria: The “Red Line” Dilemma Bruno Tertrais Senior Fellow - Geopolitics, International Relations and Demography