Laurent Murawiec, Senior Fellow

Hudson Institute

Senior Fellow Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Office

Areas of Expertise

• Military affairs
• Information warfare

Biographical Highlights

Laurent Murawiec is a senior fellow with Hudson Institute in Washington D.C. He was a senior international policy analyst with the RAND Corporation until 2002. His main research areas concern the application of anthropology to strategy, the “Revolution in Military Affairs,” and information warfare.

He has taught philosophy in Paris and was a foreign correspondent in Germany and Central Europe for La Vie Francaise, a major French business weekly. He later co-founded and managed GeoPol Services S.A., a Geneva, Switzerland, consulting company that advised multinational corporations and banks.

Prior to moving to the United States, he was an adviser to the French Ministry of Defense and taught the history of economic planning at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has taught military analysis and cultural anthropology at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.

He earned his B.A., Phil. and M.A., Phil. from the Sorbonne University in Paris.

Publications and Media Exposure

Murawiec has translated Clausewitz’s On War into French (Perrin, 1999), as well as works by G. von Scharnhorst. His book La Guerre au XXIè siècle (Odile Jacob, 2000) dealt with the “RMA.” His new book, L’Esprit des Nations: cultures et géopolitique, appeared last year in Paris (Odile Jacob). It examines the historical and cultural identity of China, Japan, India, and Russia. He currently is preparing a book on the anthropology of Islam. His new book on Saudi Arabia and the United States is expected to appear in the spring of 2003.

A contributor to The National Interest, Middle East Quarterl,y and other journals, he is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph (London) and Welt am Sonntag (Berlin). He has lectured at Columbia University, Georgetown, SAIS-Johns Hopkins, Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridge, UK, the U.S. Naval Academy, the Canadian Forces College and the Royal Canadian Military College, the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale in Paris.

His latest study, Greek Rhetoric Meets Cyberspace: Toward a Theory of Information Warfare will be published later this year.

Articles & Publications by Laurent Murawiec

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• Quelle nouvelle donne pour Bush II? 03/23/2005
• Et si la Vieille Europe avait sous-estimé l'efficacité de la politique étrangère de George W. Bush? 03/08/2005
• Endgame for House of Saud 07/15/2004
• Military Action in Cyberspace 12/15/2003
• Culture & Development 08/19/2003
• A Post-Saddam Strategy for the War on Terrorism 07/15/2003
• An Alternative Strategy for the War on Terrorism 05/22/2003

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