Dorothée SCHMID
Spécialiste des politiques européennes en Méditerranée et au Moyen-Orient, Dorothée Schmid dirige le programme « Turquie contemporaine » de l'Ifri depuis 2008. Ses travaux portent sur les développements de la politique interne en Turquie et sur les nouvelles ambitions diplomatiques turques.
Elle est l'auteur du rapport sur Les Élites françaises et la Turquie : une relation dans l'attente, publié par le think Tank turc EDAM en 2010 et a dirigé l'ouvrage collectif La Turquie au Moyen-Orient : une puissance régionale ?, publié chez CNRS éditions en décembre 2011.
In light of the current instability on Europe’s borders and uncertainties about the international role of the US under the administration of President Donald Trump, it is high time for Franco-German foreign policy initiatives. With the formation of a new German government, a window of...
The Arab Spring has shaken dysfunctional states that were built upon the recurrent use of violence.
Transatlantic differences over the future of the Iran nuclear deal – or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) of July 2015 – are damaging a nuclear accord that all parties, except the United States, see as delivering on its purpose. They also increase the risk of Washington and...
France’s current presidential campaign has created an unprecedented situation fuelled by revelations and a total absence of restraint, but it has not truly taken account of the disruptions of the last year: Brexit, the attempted coup in Turkey, the election of Donald Trump, the recapturing of...
What will become of US foreign policy under Donald Trump? A selection of Ifri researchers has come together to offer their thoughts on this question. Our experts cover an array of topics through 14 contributions, ranging from the future Sino-American relations, through US engagement in the...
The Armenian Genocide has been a topic of trials and tribulations in American politics for quite some time. It has been an issue in Presidential campaigns, like that of now-President Obama: when he promised to recognize it. It has been the topic of votes, such as the most recent 2010...
In the Syrian refugee crisis enveloping Europe, Turkey has become the bottleneck toward which migrants are flowing into Europe, a factor increasingly important for Germany in particular. Relations have been strained, however, due to disputes over the possibility of lifting visa requirements.<...>
A general economic model of understanding Middle Eastern states was elaborated by political scientists around the 1980’s, based on the concept of rent as a factor of wealth around which the economic model as much as the governance of energy-rich countries was re-organized....
For Turks, the Treaty of Sèvres symbolises the dissolution of the empire and the carving up of Turkey by foreign powers. The historic effect of the treaty survives as a syndrome, which explains the vision of a nation under siege struggling for survival. Apart from the...
Introduction of Focus on Kurdistan(s) from Politique étrangère, vol. 79, n° 2, Summer 2014.