With over 150 publications issued each year
under an open access policy in French, English, German and Russian,
Ifri enriches the international debate with a constant concern for
objectivity, intellectual rigor, transversality, openness, and support to public and private decision-making.
Disregarded by the media and international community, Mauritania is nonetheless experiencing a period of increasing instability. Evidence abounds and includes failed military coups, creation of a rebel movement, Foursan Taghyir ("The Knights of Change"), discovery of weapons caches in...
In the 1980s, after decades of scepticism or even hostility, the belief developed that multinationals could be an important component of a national development strategy. As a result, governments around the world have been wooing multinationals. Yet the challenge is to ensure that foreign...
In 2004, the importance of East-Asia as a major pole of the contemporary world proves, despite the fragility of its financial systems, to be widely devoid of regional mechanisms. Different developments illustrate this come back to the front stage.
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Global Justice Movement. The New Emancipatory Movement?
Abstract
When the Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait in August 1990 most of the French journalists stated that war was unavoidable. The Persian Gulf War actually started in January 1991 and, during this six months period, the press kept on preparing the population to the...
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Summary
Systematic confrontation or progressive co-operation?
This alternative quite sums up the ambivalence of French-Russian relations from 1958 up to 1964. In the context of East...
Original Title in French: Multinationales et développement : le rôle des politiques nationales
