Discussant :Manon-Nour Tannous
Stanislas de Laboulaye is a French diplomat. He joined the Ministry in the Asia Department, and was Consul General in Jerusalem (1996-1999), then Director General of Political and Security Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2002-2006), before becoming Ambassador in Moscow (2006-2008) and diplomatic advisor to the French government in 2012.
Maurice Gourdault-Montagne is a French diplomat. He has notably served as French ambassador to Japan (1998-2002), the UK (2007-2011), Germany (2011-2014) and China (2014-2017). He was also diplomatic advisor to President Jacques Chirac during his second term (2002-2007), in charge of Franco-Indian and Franco-Chinese strategic dialogues, diplomatic advisor and G8 Sherpa. Between 2017 and 2019, he was Secretary General of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and Special Envoy of the President of the Republic to the United Arab Emirates. He is the author of Les autres ne pensent pas comme nous (Bouquins, 2022).
Manon-Nour Tannous holds a doctorate in international relations and is a lecturer at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (CRDT), and a research associate at the Contemporary History of the Arab World chairat the Collège de France and at the Centre Thucydide at the Université Panthéon-Assas Paris-II. Her work focuses on the Syrian crisis, its international dynamics and the making of foreign policy. She is the author of Chirac, Assad et les autres. Les relations franco-syriennes depuis 1946 (PUF, 2017), La Syrie au-delà de la guerre (Le Cavalier Bleu, 2022), and edited the collective work Fréquenter les infréquentables. Le choix des interlocuteurs en diplomatie (CNRS Éditions, 2023). She has chaired the Cercle des chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient (CCMO) and is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Mondes arabes.
