Olivier Roy
Olivier Roy was born on 30 August 1949 in La Rochelle, France. A French citizen, he pursued his education through a sequence of institutions in Paris, attending the Lycée Louis-le-Grand before going on to study at Sciences Po and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. These three institutions formed the basis of his academic preparation.
Roy has worked as a political scientist. In conducting his work, he has used French, English, and Italian, engaging across three distinct languages in his professional output. This multilingual practice has characterized his activity as a scholar working within the French tradition of political science.
Over the course of his career, Roy has received formal recognition in the form of two prizes. He was awarded the Lysenko Prize and the Montyon Prize, both of which represent institutional acknowledgment of his contributions. These distinctions mark concrete points of recognition within his career as a political scientist.
Roy remains a French citizen whose scholarly formation passed through some of Paris's principal educational institutions, from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand through Sciences Po and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. His receipt of both the Lysenko Prize and the Montyon Prize stands as documented evidence of his standing within prize-awarding bodies during his career as a political scientist.
Quotes by Olivier Roy
The French government will not face a Tony Blair moment because the police have enjoyed steadily increasing powers in France for the last few decades. What Blair tried in Britain or Bush did in the U.S. with the Patriot Act were major shifts in the legal landscape.
The Islamists aren't in the affair, because it would expose them to criticism and gain them nothing.
It's difficult. When these guys turn radical, they do that in the framework of a small local network of friends. It's not a real social movement, and we have trouble connecting people who don't have any prior connection, which makes them very difficult to track.
It's a game of cowboys and Indians, ... have become a local sport, a rite of passage.
They are people who feel devalued, despised and by becoming terrorists they suddenly become supermen, heroes.
Thirty years ago, you joined the Maoists, the Trotskyists, the far left, the Baader group, Action Directe. Today, where do you go? Bin Laden.
The second generation in America has been taken into the American mainstream, while in Europe there is a tendency to lag behind in social mobility.
