Geopolitics debated in Trouville-sur-Mer!
Orchestrated by Frédéric Encel every year since 2016, the Geopolitical Encounters in Trouville-sur-Mer are designed as a space for debate and socially aware exchanges. The primary aim is to give everyone a better understanding of our current world and the international issues shaping it.
For four days, experts, academics, journalists, historians, writers, artists and politicians meet in Trouville-sur-Mer to discuss and enlighten you on the crises, conflicts and major issues of today.

THEME 2025: FRANCE AND AFRICA
ENCOUNTERS PROGRAM
- 8 round tables at the Salon des Gouverneurs in the Casino Barrière Trouville
- 1 inaugural lesson
- 1 main speaker
- 1 guest of honour
- Around forty speakers: experts, academics, journalists, historians, writers, artists, politicians, etc.
- 2 film screenings
- 1 bookstore/signing space
RETROSPECTIVES OF THEMES
- 2016: Is France a great power?
- 2017: 1917-2017, Westerners and the Middle East
- 2018: Wars of tomorrow: understanding them, preventing them…
- 2019: Borders
- 2020: Memory and Geopolitics
- 2021: The Mediterranean
- 2022: Where is America headed?
- 2023: Seas and Oceans
- 2024: Women and Power
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
The founder of the Geopolitical Encounters, Frédéric Encel, is a researcher in geopolitics, a lecturer at Sciences Po and a professor at the Paris School of Business.
A member of the Scientific Committee for the journal Hérodote and a columnist for L'Express, he has also authored numerous books including “Les Voies de la Pouvoir” published by Odile Jacob (Geopolitics Book Prize, 2022).