Emmanuel Goffi

Specialist in international relations and military ethics, Emmanuel Goffi is an officer of the French Air Force and has been a lecturer at the French Air Force Academy (EOAA) since September 2007.

He also teaches international relations at the Graduate School of Business and Management in Paris and at the DSI Diplomatic Sciences Institute in Marseille.
Non-commissioned officer during 8 years, he joins the Air Force Military Academy in 2000. In 2001 he is posted as Deputy Chief of the Air Force Headquarters Network Management Cell in Paris, before moving to the Personal staff of the Chief of Staff of the French Air Force as speech-writer and linguist in international relations. In 2003, he is moved to the Delegation for Defense Information and Communication as advisor and analyst in international relations.

From 2005 to 2007, he is a student at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, in Australia. He is then posted at the EOAA and at the same time follows a scholarship at the Institut d’Études Politiques d’Aix en Provence (south of France). Emmanuel Goffi regularly speaks mainly on military ethics in symposium in France and overseas.

He has published “Les armées françaises face à la morale. Une question au cœur des conflits modernes” (L’Harmattan, 2011) and co-directed two collective books, “L’Europe et sa défense” (Choiseul, 2011) and “Les conflits et le droit” (Choiseul, 2011).

Emmanuel Goffi holds a master’s degree in “International Affairs - Conflicts and Security” from Sciences-Po Paris and a research master’s degree in “Political Science - Comparative Military History, Geostrategy, Defence and Security” from the IEP d’Aix en Provence. He is currently finishing his thesis (ABD) in Political Science - International Relations at Sciences-Po Paris (Dissertation title: “Impact of perception around French officers sacrifice upon the conduct of the Afghan conflict through a constructivist approach”).