Ana Pouvreau

Ana Pouvreau is a Franco-American political scientist, writer and specialist in International Relations and Strategic studies. Originally a Russia specialist for 15 years, she has become a specialist of Turkey and has worked on other geopolitical areas such as the Balkans and is now focusing on the conflict in Syria. She is also an expert on the politics, defence and security issues of France. In recent years, she has been investigating societal issues which she considers critical to the survival of Western civilization. She is the author of several books and has also written for Newsweek and other publications.

Her writing may be found on ana-pouvreau.com.

Pouvreau was born in New York City. She was later raised in France. After graduating from French lycée with a Baccalauréat diploma (Maths and Physics), she returned to the US for higher education. She obtained a B.A in Political Science and Russian at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1988 and a M.A in International Relations and Strategic Studies from Boston University in 1991. She also holds a master's degree from the University of Paris X-Nanterre in Russian language and civilization and a diplôme d’études approfondies in Slavic studies from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. In 1995, she obtained her PhD from the Sorbonne summa cum/ laude in Slavic Studies. Her doctoral thesis focused on the attempts of moral rejuvenation in post-Soviet Russian society by former dissident christian anti-Soviet movements. Two of the great intellectual influences on her work are Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Alexander Zinoviev.

Pouvreau speaks English, French, Russian and she has a basic knowledge of Turkish, Spanish and Italian.

Pouvreau has published several books in French: