Foundation for Strategic Research

Foundation for Strategic Research
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Predecessor	Fondation pour les Études de Défense or Foundation for Defence Studies (FED); Centre de Recherches et d'Études sur les Stratégies et les Technologies or Centre for Study of Strategies and Technologies (CREST)
Formation	1992
Founder	Pierre Joxe
Founded at	France
Type	Think tank
Fields	National security, defense
Director	Xavier Pasco
Board of directors	Bruno Racine (chairman)
Website	frstrategie.org

The Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la recherche stratégique or FRS) is an independent French think-tank. It was founded by

Minister of Defence

) in 1992-1993 by merging the FED (Fondation pour les Études de Défense or Foundation for Defence Studies) and the CREST (Centre de Recherches et d'Études sur les Stratégies et les Technologies or Centre for Study of Strategies and Technologies).

Its missions are to analyze strategic and international security issues, notably military and defense-related issues, and to contribute to the strategic debate in France as well as to the diffusion of French ideas abroad. It is the only major independent French think-tanks to work exclusively on these questions. It has furthermore been described by Hadrien Desuin as having a

neoconservative orientation.^[1]

Its experts (44 researchers including 22 permanent ones) cover the whole range of security and defense issues, from international relations to scientific, technological and operational questions, as well as

cyberattacks, NBC proliferation…) as well as health and environmental risks.^{[citation needed}

]

Its partners are public and private: French government partners include the

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Foundation also works with French and European private sector firms, as well as, for specific projects, the governments of some foreign countries Australia, Finland, Japan, Poland, the United Kingdom, etc.^{[citation needed}

]

In 2016, the Foundation’s resources amounted to 3.68 million euros. Research funding originated from ministries (64%), EU and international organizations (14%), public agencies (10%), private sector firms (9%), and various sources (3% : projects with other think-tanks…).^[citation needed]

In November 2019, foundation researcher Valerie Niquet was sued by Huawei after she made comments relating to the company in two television programs in February of that year. Huawei took issue with Niquet asserting that Huawei had ties with the Chinese government.^[2]^[3] Suits were also filed as defamation lawsuits in March 2019 against a broadcast journalist and a wireless network expert, all of whom commented on television.^[4]