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Centre d'Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques

The Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies is an accredited postgraduate school and a think tank in diplomacy and international relations headquartered in Paris. CEDS is the graduate and doctoral school of the Écoles des hautes études internationales et politiques (HEI-HEP), founded in 1899 by Émile Durkheim, Charles Seignobos, and Romain Rolland. In 1986, Pascal Chaigneau, initiated CEDS as a specialized graduate school for officers, diplomats, and future executives. It is accredited as a Premier College by the Accreditation Service for International Colleges.

Specific relationship with diplomats
Along with the Institut français, the CEDS is a de facto lever of the French diplomatic influence (''Action française à l'étranger). It received French politician Jack Lang on September 25, 2009 for the inauguration of a Curriculum in International Relations delivered jointly with the Institut français à Athènes''. One of its academic advisers and professors is Carlos Antonio Carrasco, ambassador of Bolivia. ==Faculty and research==
Faculty and research
Research The CEDS edits the peer-reviewed academic journal Enjeux Diplomatiques et Stratégiques. It also publishes a limited number of its students' doctoral thesis as books either independently or via the publishing house ''l'Harmattan'' in Paris, in English, in the series "Diplomacy and Strategy". Faculty Military The CEDS is formally associated to the French Joint Defence College and the ECOSOC of the United Nations. Among its faculty are antiterrorism and ICTY intelligence expert Raymond Carter, Jacques Walch of the French Army, and peace operations expert and Military Staff Committee representative Dominique Trinquand, who is also a former alumni of CEDS. Most of the military faculty of the CEDS also comes from the French Institut des hautes études de défense nationale. Diplomatic Ambassadors Michel Raimbaud (France), Carlos Carrasco (Bolivia), Cristina Aguiar (Dominican Republic), Mickaël Lebedev (Russian Federation), George Ayache (France), former cabinet member Dominique de Villepin, and Patrick Boursin (France) all teach at the CEDS, along with Andrei Gratchev, former spokesperson of Mikhail Gorbachev and member of the World Political Forum. == Alumni ==
Alumni
Jean-Marc Aractingi- Diplomat • Paul F.J. Aranas - U.S. author and lecturer • Naela Chohan - Pakistani diplomat • Michael J. Strauss - U.S. journalist and strategist • Idriss Aberkane - French public speaker and essayist • Khayyam AKBAR - Diplomat, Foreign Service of Pakistan • BGen. Robert Mansour - Lebanon, Military • Yakubu Dadu, Nigerian diplomat and Consul General at the Consulate General of Nigeria, Frankfurt, Germany. == References ==
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