Ifri's work on the Americas region focuses mainly on the United States. Indeed, for more than 20 years, Ifri's United States program has provided keys to understanding American society and domestic policy while shedding light on developments in the country's foreign policy, including transatlantic relations and trade issues.
Since 2023, a specific axis on Latin America structures more actively Ifri's research on the region, particularly on energy policies but also on important democratic and geo-economic issues.
Ifri's Canada program was active in 2015 and 2016.
Research Fellow, Head of Ifri's Americas Program
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Advisor to the Americas Program
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Advisor to the Americas Programme
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Associate Research Fellow, Americas Programme / Center for Energy and Climate
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Defending and renewing the global order is a priority for the United States and Europe. An important part of this effort will be accomplished if transatlantic partners can successfully engage four “global swing states” — Brazil, India, Indonesia and Turkey — in the management of global issues,...
The U.S. defense budget has faced a sharp reduction since 2010, linked to the drawing down of two wars and the Great Recession.
The Republican Party's increasingly conservative bent has left it more and more at odds with the countries" growing minorities. In preparation for the 2016 election, a serious debate on the GOP's stance is now underway between far-right partisans, moderates and a more pragmatic approach...
The second term of Barack Obama’s presidency has introduced new Foreign Policy leadership that suggests changes for the future. The White House will likely centralize foreign policy making and the Treasury Department may play a bigger role in the country’s global engagement. Despite new policy...
Even though the private sector brings more funding to innovation programs, the role government plays by hosting and/or funding research projects remains key. Only the public sector can pursue the long term projects with no foreseeable profitability that will enable the next industrial...
The future candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential primary will be expected to develop a clear foreign policy agenda and prove the GOP’s credibility on foreign affairs issue.
Interrogations on a possible decline of U.S. leadership are a regular occurrence in the country.
In an effort to preserve its global leadership, the United States has engaged in a “double rebalancing”; a geopolitical rebalancing, as illustrated by the “pivot to Asia,” and a rebalancing of means, with the Obama administration increasingly advancing diplomatic and economic negotiations ...
The French Institute for International Relations (Ifri) and The German Marshall Fund of the United States - France (GMF) have partnered to launch a joint research program on the transformations of U.S. leadership by the year 2020.
A funny thing happened in the last few years when no one was paying attention. J.R. Ewing, the legendary Texas oilman, and his wife Sue Ellen sold Southfork, their ranch near Dallas, and moved to a new home in Pennsylvania (Northfork?). JR immediately began buying subsurface mineral rights for...
Aurélie Godet, Associate Professor at Université Paris VII Diderot, shows an ideologically-torn Republican Party and shares her assumptions as to its possible evolutions leading to the 2016 election.
... Michael Tomasky, Editor-in-Chief of Democracy and contributor to The New York Review of Books, discusses Hillary Clinton's evolutions as a politician and her probable candidacy to the next presidential elections in 2016.
... Jeffrey Mankoff, Fellow and Deputy Director, Russia and Eurasia Program at Center for International and Strategic Studies (CSIS) reports on the US-Russian relationship's various evolutions in light of the Syrian civil war and where they currently stand.
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Leo G. Michel concludes the Annual Conference of 2013 by commenting on the state of transatlantic cooperation in the realm of defense and security.
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Michèle Dunne, Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, gives an overview of the current situation in the Middle-East and discusses the American reaction to the Arab Winters.
... Alireza Nader, Senior Policy Analyst, The Rand Corporation, shares his assomptions as to whether or not there is an actual rapprochement between the United States and Iran.
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Last Tuesday, members of Congress finally reached a budget agreement, delaying the prospect of another government shutdown.
Congress found a provisionary compromise but will have to reconsider the federal budget in January. What's the likely outcome? By Laurence nardon, head of the United States Program at IFRI.
Domestic policy remains Obama's focus and strongsuit while foreign policy has emerged as the administration's weakest and most deceptive area. Obama has proved measured yet hesitant, pragmatic yet reactive. Latin America and Africa are far from his radar. The relationship with Russia remains...
The world watches with weariness and disbelief as another American psychodrama unfolds. The government shutdown isn't but American, and by extension global, dysfunction's most recent manifestation.
