Thomas Gomart is director of the Russia/NIS Center at the French Institute for nternational Relations (IFRI) in Paris and lectures on international affairs and geopolitics at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan. He has been Lavoisier Fellow at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, visiting fellow at the Institute for Security Studies, Paris, and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College, London.