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A "Les jeudis de l'Ifri" videoconference around Thomas GOMART, director of Ifri.
On the occasion of the publication of his book Guerres invisibles (Tallandier, 2021), Thomas Gomart offers a geopolitical and geoeconomic overview in a context of acute health crisis: Sino-American relations, transformation of value chains, competition between regional powers and digitization of common spaces (sea, air, exo-atmospheric) ...
Chair: Marc HECKER, director of research and communications at Ifri.
This debate is for corporate members only. It will be conducted in French.
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Guerres invisibles - Nos prochains défis géopolitiques
What are the next geopolitical challenges of the century? The global pandemic has altered the equilibrium between Asia and the West and sealed the rift between China and the United States, accentuating the world’s shift towards the East. On this polarized chessboard, two fault lines converge: environmental degradation and technological propagation where the main strategic and economic rivalries are now being played out.
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