Nationality France | Name Emmanuel Goffi | |
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Occupation French Air Force Officer Notable works Ethics, International relations, Political Science | ||
Emmanuel Roberto Goffi (born December 10, 1971) is a French Air Force Officer (Captain). He is a philosopher, ethicist and a specialist in international relations. He currently is an Instructor and Research Fellow at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada. His work mainly focuses on military ethics and security studies, and more specifically on the robotization of the battlefield. Emmanuel is also a Research Associate (Docteur associé) with Sciences Po-Centre de recherches internationales.
Contents
- Military career
- Research activities
- Teaching activities
- Courses taught
- Monograph
- Edited volumes
- Selected articles and books chapters
- Selected talks
- References
Capt. Goffi lectured in international relations and the Law of Armed Conflict at the École de l'air (French Air Force Academy) for five years before he was appointed as a research associate at the Center for Aerospace Strategic Studies in Paris. Goffi also taught international relations at the DSI Diplomatic Studies Institute in Marseille, at the Management Institute of Paris and at the École supérieure de commerce et management (ESCEM) in Paris. He is the author of Les armées françaises face à la morale: une réflexion au cœur des conflits modernes (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011).
Emmanuel Goffi graduated from the French Air Force Military Academy and holds a Master's degree in Political Science from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po) and a Research master's degree in Political Science from the Aix Institute of Political Science. He holds a PhD (highest honor) in Political Science from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris-Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po-CERI).
Military career
Emmanuel Goffi joined the French Air Force in 1992 as a non-commissioned officer and specialist in electrotechnics.
After a competitive exam he was admitted to join the École militaire de l'air in Salon de Provence in 2000.
After he left the French Air Force Academy, Emmanuel Goffi was appointed Deputy Chief of the Air Force Headquarters Network Management Cell, at the Centre de gestion de l’armée de l’Air in Paris, France, in September 2001.
He was then moved to the Personal staff of the Chief of Staff of the French Air Force as a speech-writer and linguist in September 2002.
In 2003, he is posted at the Délégation à l'information et à la communication de la Défense to be an Analyst in International Relations.
In 2007, after he completed is master's degree at Sciences Po and finished his scholarship at the University of Queensland in Australia, he is posted as a professor of international relations at the French Air Force Academy. He will then be Deputy Head and later Head, of the Department of Human Sciences. During his tenure he also teaches the Law of Armed Conflict, Ethics and Communication. While at the French Air Force Academy, he notably set up the Law of Armed Conflict Module in the framework of the Initiative européenne pour les échanges de jeunes officiers, inspirée d'Erasmus (European initiative for the exchange of young officers inspired by Erasmus), that was finally adopted as the model for all European military academies by the Collège européen de sécurité et de défense (European College for Security and Defence) in Brussels. Emmanuel was also the first professor to give a course in English (apart of English language courses) at the French Air Force Academy. Besides, this module gave birth to an annual international seminar and an edited book issued in 2011.
From September 2012 to September 2014, is appointed Strategy Analyst, Influence Officer and Research Associate at Centre d’Etudes Stratégiques Aérospatiales (CESA), where he works on drones, ethics and security studies. While at the CESA he notably co-edited a seminal volume of more than 40 contributions about drones, Les drones aériens: passé, présent et avenir. Approche globale, published in 2013.
In 2014, he is granted an extended leave to start a new career in Canada.
Research activities
After two years in Science Po, during which he spent one semester at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, he started working on international relations focusing on military ethics. He then directed is research activities on ethical issues related to the use of drones and military robots in modern conflicts, and its impact upon the profession of arms.
Through moral philosophy, he tries to offer new approaches for military ethics basing his reflections upon intersubjectivity, moral responsibility, and moral freedom.
Emmanuel's doctoral dissertation, entitled "Le sacrifice suprême, une approche critique de la construction d'un mythe: les officiers français et la mort pro patria dans le contexte du conflit en Afghanistan" (Supreme Sacrifice: A Critical Approach of the Construction of a Myth. The French Officers and Death Pro Patria in the Context of the Afghan Conflict), addresses the issue of supreme-sacrifice in modern conflicts trying to show that the obligation to consent to sacrifice is a social construct which needs to be questioned in regard to modern military engagements.
Emmanuel Goffi is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba (Canada) and a Research Associate with Sciences Po-Centre de recherches internationales. He is currenctly conducting researches as a Research Associate with the Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg on the evolution of peace operations in Africa.
Teaching activities
Goffi mainly taught international relations focusing on threats to international security such as terrorism, environmental or technology issues, but also on French foreign policy, and international relations theories. He also teaches strategy.
While posted at the French Air Force Academy he also provided courses on the law of armed conflicts and international relations ethics. He extensively worked on the organization of the international seminar on the law of armed conflicts (LOAC) yearly held at the French Air Force Academy, and on the building of the French Air Force Academy's LOAC module and its integration to the "European initiative for the exchange of young officers inspired by Erasmus" training program.
Courses taught
Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
École de l'air, Salon-de-provence, France
École supérieure de commerce et de management, Paris, France
Management Institute of Paris, Paris, France
ISD - Institut des sciences diplomatiques de Marseille, Marseille, France