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Olesya Vinhas de Souza

Dr Olesya Vinhas de Souza is a reseaecher at the NATO Defense College-Rome. Se is a defense analysist with expertise in Russia and cybersecurity. She leverages cutting-edge quantitative methods to gain insights into the factors that drive Russia’s foreign policy and identify changes in the operational environment that have strategic and tactical implications for NATO.

She started her trans-Atlantic career at the RAND Corporation where she published on the nexus between technology and security.

After Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, she joined the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) at the Pentagon, where she directly contributed to the development and implementation of policies to strengthen the U.S. defense posture in Eastern Europe and subsequently received an achievement award from the Under Secretary of Defense.

After moving to Brussels, she became a faculty at the Brussels School of Governance-VUB and also served as Acting Dean of Vesalius College.

She holds her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Skalny Center for Polish and Eastern European Studies at the University of Rochester.

She is a winner of prestigious George F. Kennan Fellowship (the Kennan Institute), Fulbright Fellowship (U.S. Department of State), and the Graduate Studies Fellowship (National Science Foundation).

Which EU Defense Spending to Address the War in Ukraine and Russia?

A Conversation Based on the IEP@BU Policy Brief: Before Vegetius – Critical Questions for European Defense with Olesya Vinhas de Souza (NATO Defense Council), Andrea Gilli (University of St Andrews, and IEP@BU), Stefano Feltri (IEP@BU)

Deterrence, Diplomacy, and Risk of Conflict: the Taiwan Challenge for the EU

What role can the EU play in a global deterrence strategy to prevent a conflict between the US and China over Taiwan? How might the EU effectively de-risk its relationship with the Taiwanese semiconductor industry? A conversation with Bill Emmott (au...

Thomas Gomart

Thomas Gomart has been director of Ifri since 2015. He was a member of the editorial committee of the 2017 National Defence and Security Strategic Review, placed under the authority of the Minister for Armed Forces. Thomas Gomart is a member of the scientific council of Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN) and of the editorial board of the journals: Politique étrangère, Revue des deux mondes and Études.

His current work focuses on Russia, digital governance, French foreign policy, geopolitical risk and think tanks.

He recently published L'Affolement du monde (Tallandier, 2019), Guerres invisibles (Tallandier, 2021) and Les Ambitions inavouées. Ce que préparent les grandes puissances (Tallandier, 2023). His latest book, "L’Accélération de l’histoire. Les nœuds géostratégiques d’un monde hors de contrôle", Editions Tallandier, was published in January 2024.

Thomas Gomart has a doctorate in the history of international relations (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and is an EMBA graduate (HEC). He is knight of the National Order of Merit.

The Matchstick of Inflation

Both in the U.S. and Europe, the excess liquidity created over past decades has been only partially reabsorbed. It remains ready to fuel inflation if a matchstick is struck. A commentary by Franco Bruni

Policy Brief n.32 - The Fallacy of r – g

The empirical evidence does not confirm the hypothesis that the public debt tends to be more stable in countries where the (real) interest rate is systematically lower than (real) growth. On the contrary. A policy Brief by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

From research to policy brief - IEP@BU monthly brainstorming sessions

IEP@BU is conducting monthly hybrid meetings, in which IEP@BU Fellows are able to present projects they either want to publish or have already published as IEP@BU Policy Briefs.The goal of these meetings is to foster engagement among IEP@BU Fell...

The Geopolitics of Trump’s Inauguration Speech

The geopolitical references in the inaugural address of the new US President are striking because they align closely with the concept of “classic geopolitics”—a vision of politics and international relations as an aggressive, zero-sum game. A comment...

Trump 2.0, The EU-US Relationship at a Crossroads

Much of the impact of the new Trump Administration on Europe will depend on how the balance of power within the US plays out between the President and key corporate leaders, of Big Tech in particular

Gorodnichenko Yuriy

Yuriy Gorodnichenko

Yuriy Gorodnichenko is Quantedge Presidential Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, Editor of American Economic Review, and Director of Ukraine Initiative at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR).