# Amélie Zima

> Amélie Zima is a researcher at IRSEM. With a doctorate in political science from the University of Paris-Nanterre

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Amélie Zima is a researcher at IRSEM. With a doctorate in political science from the University of Paris-Nanterre, she wrote her thesis on NATO's first post-Cold War enlargement, and was awarded first prize for her thesis by the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN). Her work focuses on NATO and the Polish political system. Amélie Zima has been a research associate at Cefres in Prague (Centre français de recherches en sciences sociales), at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ISP-PAN) and a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre de civilisation française of Warsaw University and at the Centre Thucydide (Université Panthéon-Assas). She has taught political science and international relations at the Universities of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris-Nanterre and SciencesPo.