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Highlights

Studies

February 2026

Mapping the MilTech War: Eight Lessons from Ukraine’s Battlefield

Donbass, Ukraine, August 13, 2025 – A Ukrainian soldier pilots a Baba Yaga drone.

Élie TENENBAUM Bohdan KOSTIUK Daryna-Maryna PATIUK Anastasya SHAPOCHKINA

Mapping the MilTech War Eight Lessons from Ukraine’s Battlefield. Ifri

Papers

February 2026

Deathonomics: The Social, Political, and Economic Costs of War in Russia

Advertising banner promoting contract military service in the Russian Armed Forces, Russia, 24 August 2025

Vladislav INOZEMTSEV

Papers

January 2026

Placing the EU on a Warfare Footing: Energy and Raw Materials Priorities for 2026

illustration with UE, Chinese, US, and Russian flags

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA Diana-Paula GHERASIM Thibault MICHEL

Ifri papers cover on Placing the EU on a Warfare Footing: Energy and Raw Materials Priorities for 2026

Upcoming Events

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Seminar

Open event

03 March 2026

EV Supply Chains for Japan and Europe: Strengthening Economic Security

Economic security aims to ensure the resilience of supply chains for key industries: the case of electric vehicle production in Japan and Europe will be discussed.

Conferences

Open event

18 March 2026

What Kind of Technological Partnership with India?

As India asserts its technological ambitions and seeks to reduce its dependence on China, Europe is stepping up its efforts to diversify its strategic partnerships. What opportunities arise from the convergence of these two dynamics? Can cooperation in cutting-edge sectors—from electric vehicles to artificial intelligence and semiconductors—transform the Indo-European relationship into a lever for strategic autonomy? 

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Media

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Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy and Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Director of Ifri's Energy and Climate Center

Replay - Conference with Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

February 2026

Welcomed at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), Chris Wright outlined his vision of American energy policy built around two core axes: the human reality of energy access, and a data-driven approach.

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA

Build and Maintain Air-Sea Superiority in a Contested Operational Environment – CNP 26

February 2026

An exceptional opening roundtable at the

Élie TENENBAUM

Navigating the Taiwan Strait Tensions: Perspectives from Japan, the Philippines, and France Ifri

Replay - Navigating the Taiwan Strait Tensions: Perspectives from Japan, the Philippines, and France

November 2025

Céline PAJON

Marc JULIENNE

Strategic Autonomy and Asia amid Rising Geoeconomic Competition ifri centre asia studies annual conference

Replay - Strategic Autonomy and Asia amid Rising Geoeconomic Competition

November 2025

Amid growing strategic and geopolitical uncertainty, Europe is grappling with the notion of its strategic autonomy. For Europe’s partners in Asia, the concept is also becoming increasingly salient as the world enters an era of structural transformation.