Félix Blanc
After MA studies in philosophy and political science, I did my Ph. D. at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and the Institut de Recherches Stratégiques de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM, Paris). Funded by the Minister of Defense (DGA/CNRS) and defended in June 2014, my dissertation focuses on the organizational aspects of civilian/military relations in representative democracies (UK, France, USA).
From 2009 to 2013, I have been affiliated to the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) as junior expert on constitutional and moral justifications of external military intervention.
From 2013 to 2016, I was also head of the public policy and institutions desk at Internet Without Borders (where I met Stephanie Lamy) working on issues of universal access to the Internet (especially looking at global infrastructures such as undersea cables and IXPs) and online protection of civil societies (especially in Africa where I conduct three on-ground missions with African journalists and activists).
Selected publications :
Military ethics
- « To wage war from behind (II): a farewell to military ethics? », Euro-International Society for Military Ethics (Euro-ISME), German Defense Academy, Koblenz (Germany), May 2014
- « Words without swords : how verbal cause can be a just cause for waging a preemptive war ? The case of the Libyan intervention.« Euro-ISME 2013, Royal Netherlands Navy Conference, 2-3 May 2013
- « To wage war from behind: how drones violate our just war principles and constitutional boundaries ? », EURO-International Society for Military Ethics, Shrivenham, UK Defence Academy, 14 et 15 June 2012
- « Généalogie et défense de l’intervention militairement justifiée par des raisons humanitaires » af crititical review of Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, La guerre au nom de l’humanité. Tuer ou laisser mourir,Paris, PUF, 2012
- « Words without swords : threat and aggression in international relations (Israel 1967/Libya 2011) », International society for military ethics, University of San Diego (USA), 23-26 January 2012
Parliamentary oversight and military intervention
- « Le contrôle parlementaire de la politique extérieure : une réforme aboutie ? L’article 35 de la Constitution« , Les engagements stratégiques français. Nouveaux regards. Éléments de réflexion pour l’actualisation du Livre blanc sur la défense et la sécurité nationale, Paris, Institut de Recherche Sratégique de l’Ecole Militaire, 24 novembre 2011
Internet and democracy
- « Surveillance, terrorism and civil rights on the Internet », The Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy,Diplomatic Academy (Vienna, Austria), 4-6 April 2016
- « Protecting civil society after the 2015 French Surveillance Act » (with Internet Without Borders), 10 November 2015, Union des Jeunes Avocats (Paris)
- « Internet and Broadband in Cameroon: Barriers to Affordable Access » (avec Julie Owono from Internet Without Borders, étude de cas publiée par l’Alliance for Affordable Internet, Washington, August 2014
- “The world after Snowden : Is an ethical surveillance possible here ?”, Internet Without Borders, June 2014
- “Cameroon: Governance, transparency and access costs to Internet”, Internet Without Borders, December 2013