Jacques Rupnik was born in Prague in 1950, educated at the University of Paris and at Harvard, is currently Research Professor at CERI-Sciences Po in Paris and visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. 
He holds degrees in history from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne and politics from Sciences Po, a Master’s in Soviet Studies from Harvard University (1974) and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Paris I - Sorbonne (1978). 
Former research associate at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University (1974-1975), Eastern Europe analyst for the BBC World Service from 1977 to 1982 he has been based in Paris since he joined CERI, Sciences Po at the end of 1982. Executive director of the International Commission for the Balkans, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1995-1996) and drafter of its report Unfinished Peace (Carnegie, 1996) member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo (1999-2000) and co-drafter of The Kosovo Report (Oxford UP, 2000); Co-editor of the journal Transeuropéennes (1992-2003). Member of the editorial board of East European Politics and Society (ACLS) since 2009.

J.Rupnik has been an advisor to the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel (1990-1992) and continued to work with him after that. He is a member of the board of the Vaclav Havel presidential library in Prague. Among the various positions held: advisor to the European Commission 2007 - 2013. Member of the scientific council of the Prague Institute of International Relations (2007-2017). Member of the board of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague (2010-2017). Member of the board of directors of the European Partnership for Democracy in Brussels (2008-2013). Member of the Research Council of the International Forum for Democracy Studies in Washington (since 2013). He has been a visiting Professor in several European universities and in the Department of Government, (2006) at Harvard University where he was Senior Fellow at the Davis Center (2008) and at the Center for European Studies (2011, 2016).

J.Rupnik has published a number of books and scholarly articles including The Other Europe (London, 1989, translated in a dozen of languages and a companion volume to a six hour documentary film on postwar Eastern Europe for British television). His publications include Histoire du Parti communiste tchécoslovaque (1981), Le Nouveau Continent (with D.Moisi, 1991), L’Europe des Vingt-Cinq (with Ch.Lequesne, 2004) and edited volumes such as Totalitarismes (1984), Czech and Slovak Roads to the European Union (2003), International Perspectives on the Balkans (2003), Les Banlieues de l’Europe, les politiques de voisinage de l’UE (2007), The Western Balkans and the EU: ‘the hour of Europe’, Paris, EUISS (2011), 1989 as a Political World Event: Democracy, Europe and the new international system in the age of globalization, with an introduction by Vaclav Havel, London, Routledge, (2013), Géopolitique de la démocratisation, l’Europe et ses voisinages, Presses de Sciences Po (2014), Stredni Evropa je jako ptak s ocima vzadu (Central Europe is like a bird with eyes in its back), Prague, Novela Bohemica, 2018.
 

• Jacques Rupnik. Poland, divided between Trump and the EU. The Conversation France, 2025. ⟨hal-05245429⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Les victimes de l’accommodement avec Poutine prôné par Trump. The Conversation France, 2025. ⟨hal-05245447⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Les deux Pologne, entre l’UE et Trump. The Conversation France, 2025. ⟨hal-05121182⟩
• Jacques Rupnik, Natalia Routkevitch. L’Europe centrale à l’heure de Trump. Politique internationale, 2025, 188. ⟨hal-05043575⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Assessing the damage of a Trump-Putin deal. The Conversation France, 2025. ⟨hal-04980770⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Milan Kundera's Warning of Upcoming Tragedy: The Reinvention of Central Europe. Karen von Kunes (ed.). Milan Kundera Known and Unknown. Multidimensional Analysis of Selected Works, Bloomsbury Academic, pp.255-263, 2024, 9798765109458. ⟨10.5040/9798765109496.ch-15⟩. ⟨hal-04956391⟩
• Jacques Rupnik (Dir.). Josef Guttmann a osudy střední Evropy mezi Hitlerem a Stalinem. Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, 2023, 9788075160317. ⟨hal-04268302⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. "Move Forward to the Back": The Illiberal Turn in East-Central Europe. Ralf Füks & Rainald Manthe (eds). Update Liberalism. Liberal Answers to the Challenges of Our Time, Transcript, pp.51-59, 2023, 9783837669954. ⟨hal-04246866⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. La Slovaquie à la croisée des chemins. 2023. ⟨hal-04223221⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. L’exception tchèque ?. Revue Esprit, 2023, n° 496. ⟨hal-04058292⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Europe centrale : l’exception tchèque. 2023. ⟨hal-04222464⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Illiberal Democracy and Hybrid Regimes in East-Central Europe. Katerina Kolozova, Niccolò Milanese (Eds). “Illiberal Democracies” in Europe: An Authoritarian Response to the Crisis of Illiberalism, The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, pp.9-16, 2023, 9798986583136. ⟨hal-03980745⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Changement d’époque en Europe. Paysans et Société, 2022, 2022/5 (n°395), pp.16-21. ⟨10.3917/pes.395.0016⟩. ⟨hal-03828505⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. L’Europe centrale, objet retrouvé. Revue Esprit, 2022, Septembre 2022 (9), pp.26-30. ⟨10.3917/espri.2209.0026⟩. ⟨hal-03795022⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. The East-West Divide Revisited in Wartime. Istvan Hegedus, Erik Uszkiewicz (Eds). The Future of Democracy. Strengthening Liberal Values, Institutions and Procedures at Global, European, Regional and National Levels, Hungarian Europe Society, pp.9-12, 2022, 9786150145211. ⟨hal-03691826⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Επανεξετάζοντας το χάσμα μεταξύ Ανατολής και Δύσης 30 χρόνια μετά. Helen Wallace; Γιώργος Παγουλάτος; Νίκος Κουτσιαράς (dir.). Μετασχηματισμοί της Ευρώπης. Δοκίμια προς τιμήν του Λουκά Τσούκαλη, , pp.112-133, 2022, 9789602219560. ⟨hal-03675960⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Les voisins centre-est européens de l’Ukraine face à la guerre : sécurité, accueil des réfugiés, énergie et élargissement de l’Union européenne. Les Dossiers du CERI, 2022, Dossier « Ukraine : la guerre de Poutine », avril 2022. ⟨hal-03728325⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Orban’s Hungary: From “Illiberal Democracy” to the Authoritarian Temptation. Contemporary Populists in Power, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.133-151, 2022, The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, 9783030840785. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-84079-2_8⟩. ⟨hal-03605794⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. The East–West Divide Revisited 30 Years On. Helen Wallace, Nikos Koutsiaras, and George Pagoulatos. Europe's Transformations: Essays in Honour of Loukas Tsoukalis, Oxford University Press, pp.85-100, 2021, 9780192895820. ⟨10.1093/oso/9780192895820.003.0006⟩. ⟨hal-03439311⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Préface - Un Occident kidnappé. Un Occident kidnappé. Ou la tragédie de l'Europe centrale, Gallimard, 2021, 9782072966330. ⟨hal-03522837⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. The Other Europe. Interview with Jacques Rupnik. 2021. ⟨hal-03391738⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. The Other Europe. Entretien avec Jacques Rupnik. 2021. ⟨hal-03391739⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Les crises : moteur ou frein de l’Union européenne ?. Les Cahiers français : documents d'actualité, 2021, 420-421 (mars-juin 2021), pp.98 - 105. ⟨hal-03380832⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Le variant illibéral. 2021. ⟨hal-03391772⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Perspectives d’Europe centrale sur l’avenir de l’Europe. 2021. ⟨hal-03391782⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Reflections on the 100th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Securitas Imperii, 2021, 39, pp.11-15. ⟨hal-03934079⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Serbie : un enjeu géopolitique pour l’Union européenne. Alternatives Economiques. Hors - série, 2021, 122, pp.32 - 33. ⟨hal-03380861⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Utopie et « normalité » : retour sur les héritages de 1968. Antoine Marès; Françoise Mayer; Jacques Rupnik. L’onde de choc tchécoslovaque. 1968 en Europe médiane et occidentale, Institut d'études slaves, 2020, 9782720406607. ⟨hal-03393240⟩
• Antoine Marès, Françoise Mayer, Jacques Rupnik (Dir.). L’onde de choc tchécoslovaque. 1968 en Europe médiane et occidentale. Antoine Marès; Françoise Mayer; Jacques Rupnik. Institut d'études slaves, 2020, 9782720406607. ⟨hal-03385163⟩
• Gilles Kepel, Jacques Rupnik. Dopo il 1989: trent’anni di disordine globale. Micromega, 2020, I crimini coloniali dell’Italia in Africa, 2020 (7). ⟨hal-03566572⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Die Ungarische Frage. Lettre international , 2020, 129 (Sommer 2020), pp.129 - 133. ⟨hal-03380882⟩
• Jan Zielonka, Jacques Rupnik. From Revolution to ‘Counter-Revolution’: Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 30 Years On. Europe-Asia Studies, 2020, 72 (6), pp.1073 - 1099. ⟨10.1080/09668136.2020.1784394⟩. ⟨hal-03385835⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. L’Europe centrale à l’heure du Corona : entre résilience sanitaire et défaillance démocratique. 2020. ⟨hal-03391888⟩
• Sébastien Maillard, Thierry Chopin, Lukáš Macek, Jacques Rupnik. L’Europe d’après. Pour un nouveau récit de l’élargissement. 2020. ⟨hal-03391962⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Viktor Orban et l’Europe centrale face au Covid-19. Les Dossiers du CERI, 2020, en ligne. ⟨hal-03570768⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Orban ou la démocratie sous respirateur au temps du Covid-19. 2020. ⟨hal-03391986⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Orbán et la droite européenne. Revue Esprit, 2020, Le populisme en débat, 2020/4 (Avril), pp.33-37. ⟨10.3917/espri.2004.0033⟩. ⟨hal-03561427⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Viktor Orban et les dilemmes de la droite européenne. 2020. ⟨hal-03392048⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. The Other Europe. Interviews behind the Iron Curtain from the late 80s. 2020. ⟨hal-03386516⟩
• Jacques Rupnik, Anne Bazin, Catherine Perron. Entretien avec Jacques Rupnik. Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, 2019, 50 (2-3), pp.175 - 200. ⟨10.3917/receo1.502.0175⟩. ⟨hal-03399564⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Viktor Orbán. Michel Duclos. Le monde des nouveaux autoritaires, Les Editions de l'Observatoire, 2019, 9791032908211. ⟨hal-03381045⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. L’Europe de l’Est se voit comme défenseur des valeurs traditionnelles. Défense, 2019, 200 (septembre-octobre), pp.143 - 146. ⟨hal-03397451⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Le pouvoir confisqué dans la Hongrie de Viktor Orbán. Alain Dieckhoff; Christophe Jaffrelot; Elise Massicard. L'Enjeu mondial. Populismes au pouvoir, Presses de Sciences Po, pp.125 - 135, 2019, 9782724625004. ⟨hal-03381082⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Vorübegehende Abweichung oder Ende des liberalen Zyklus? Populistische Tendenzen in Mitteleuropa. Chantal Mouffe; Claus Offe; Ivan Krastev; Jan-Werner Müller. Wenn Demokratien demokratisch untergehen, Passagen Verlag, pp.107 - 119, 2019, 9783709203583. ⟨hal-03381094⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Senza il muro. Le due Europe dopo il crollo del comunismo. Donzelli editore, 2019, 9788868439194. ⟨hal-03393696⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Est-Ouest, réalité et relativité d’un clivage. 2019. ⟨hal-03392144⟩
• Milica Popovic, Jacques Rupnik. Yugonostalgia and the return of former state borders. Europa. Un'utopia in costruzione, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2019. ⟨hal-03393802⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Utopias and “Normality”: 1968 Revisited Fifty Years On. Slavic Review, 2019, 77 (4 (winter 2018)), pp.890 - 896. ⟨10.1017/slr.2018.286⟩. ⟨hal-03413577⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Démocrature en Europe du Centre-Est : trente ans après 1989. Pouvoirs - Revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, 2019, 2 (169), pp.73 - 84. ⟨10.3917/pouv.169.0073⟩. ⟨hal-03146688⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Momentous ‘eights’ in Czecho-Slovak history. 2018. ⟨hal-03392708⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Portrait of Viktor Orbán - Prime Minister of Hungary. 2018. ⟨hal-03392712⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. L’Autre Printemps 1968 - 50 ans après. Introduction au colloque du 24-25 mai 2018. Les Dossiers du CERI, 2018, pp.en ligne. ⟨hal-03471582⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. Variations centre-européennes. Bertrand Badie; Dominique Vidal. Le retour des populismes. L'état du monde 2019, Éditions La Découverte, pp.181 - 188, 2018, 9782348037436. ⟨hal-03393856⟩
• Jacques Rupnik. 1968 Prague Spring at 50. Les Dossiers du CERI, 2018, pp.en ligne. ⟨hal-03393447⟩