Yves Roucaute is a neo-conservative professor of political science and common in University of Paris X- Nanterre, a philosopher essayist and former journalist. He is President of the Free Europe Institute, and a Fellow at the Atlantis Institute. He is the former vice-president of the National Union of the Students of France (UNEF) and the Union of the Communist Students (UEC), and the former president of the Antonio Gramsci Institute. Roucaute is author of Le néoconservatisme est un humanisme (2005), La puissance de la liberté (2004), La République contre la démocratie (1996), and several other publications.