Pierre Joxe

Beyond National Sovereignty? The French Republic and "Mondialisation"

Arranged by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies;
Sponsored by the Broad International Lecture Series and the College of Social Sciences

Pierre Joxe served as French Interior Minister under President François Mitterrand in 1984-1986 and 1988-1991, dealing with some of the most challenging issues of the day, including policing, regional separatism, immigration and the status of France’s growing Muslim minority. He was appointed Defense Minister during the Gulf War in 1991 and served in that office until 1993. Between 1993 and 2001 he was President of the Cour des comptes, official auditor of the nation’s public expenditures. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Conseil Constitutionnel, France’s supreme arbiter on constitutional matters. He has also served as a Councillor in the City of Paris, as President of the Regional Assembly of Burgundy, and as a member of both the French and European Parliaments. He has been decorated by the governments of France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Hungary and Senegal.