Dr. Jean-Luc Marret

Contact Information

Tel: (202) 663-5956

Email: jl.marret@frstrategie.org

Dr. Jean-Luc Marret is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations and a Research Fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, the leading think tank on international security issues in France.  Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor of US Foreign Policy, Counter-Terrorism, and the Middle East at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr (the French West-Point).  He is currently working on counter-terrorism, radicalism, WMD, and conflicts and conflict prevention (non-state actors, stabilization, civil/military affairs, NGOs, cultural intelligence) issues and has published numerous books in French and in Arabic. Dr. Marret speaks English, French, and German fluently and understands basic Italian and Arabic.  He received his PhD in Arms Control and French Foreign Policy from the Université Paris II.

Select Publications

Books

Histoires de djihad, (with Michel Guerin), Paris, Editions des équateurs, 2007.

Terrorism in France, (with François Heisbourg), Paris, Editions des équateurs, 2006.

Factories of Jihad, (dir), Paris, Presses universitaires de France, February 2005.

Failed States, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, November 2001.

The Peacemaking (new conflicts, new actors, new Practices), Paris, F.R.S./Ellipses, March 2001.

Techniques of terrorism, Paris, PUF, May 2000; 2nd edition March 2002, translation in Rumanian and in Arabic : Techniat al-Irrhab, Dar al-Jil, Beyrouth, 2004.

Transnational Violence and Public Security, (dir), Paris 2-LGDJ, June 1999.

Samples of Funded Research

“European Cop”, Consortium leaded by Sagem, European Union, 2006-2007.

Executive Director of the Database on terrorist acts against France and its interests, Ministry of Interior, 2005-2006.

“Terrorist Threats: CBRN and Global Jihadism”, Atomic Energy Commission, Military department and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2005.

“NGOs Integration in Armed Forces Operations during the Stabilization Phase: Allied Solutions”, Ministry of Defence, French Army, Retex Department, 2004-2005.