Telos is a French think tank founded in December, 2005, by Zaki Laïdi. Telos aims to comment on global issues in a French society cultivating with anxiety its own differences. The growing distance separating France from other large nations is a real source of concern which needs to be addressed, understood and bridged.Telos hopes to serve simultaneously as a forum for scholars, an intermediary between scholars and the media, and a gateway for communication between scholars and a wider public. Telos has a reformist agenda, but is not affiliated with any political party or institution. Those participating to Telos do so in their strict personal capacity.