As security tensions mount in Europe's far north, particularly as a result of Russian destabilization and intimidation, France and Finland are developing their defense cooperation and strategic partnership. On this occasion, Ifri welcomes French and Finnish decision-makers and experts to discuss opportunities for strengthening Franco-Finnish cooperation, taking into account current strategic challenges and future prospects.

This third edition of the Paris Naval Conference (CNP), bringing together high-level speakers from the military, industry and academia, aims to address the issues of securing the maritime economy for the world's navies.

The competitiveness of the European Union (EU) has become one of the main challenges for the new European Commission. To ensure Europe's competitiveness, prosperity, and global role as a long-term geopolitical player, efforts must be made to bridge the gaps in growth, productivity, investment, and innovation between the EU and its main competitors.

Poland will assume the presidency of the Council of the EU throughout the first semester of 2025, when geopolitical tensions are likely to peak. 

After three years of war, the situation in Ukraine is still dire, with a lot of uncertaineties on the battlefield. But this fog of war has begun from the very outset of the conflict. Strategic research and analyses have been marred with biases and misjudgments that tell a different story about Western perception and preferences in warfare. This is the claim of a CSIS report authored last September by Prof. Eliot A. Cohen, Prof. Phillips O'Brien and foreword by Prof. Hew Stracham.

The Study Committee on Franco-German Relations (Cerfa) is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.

The Cerfa was created in 1954 by an intergovernmental agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and France, against a backdrop of Franco-German reconciliation. Belonging to the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) since its creation in 1979 by Thierry de Montbrial, it is one of its pillars.
 

As a new European Commission prepares to define the Union's strategic priorities, the objectives and content of the future space law are being called into question. How can Europe respond to the new economic, geopolitical and ecological challenges posed by space?

Founded in 2008 by Thierry de Montbrial, Chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), the World Policy Conference (WPC) will be holding its seventeenth edition on December 13-15, 2024, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Many states in sub-Saharan Africa face situations of fragility that have led them to withdraw from some of their responsibilities, including their core sovereign functions. This withdrawal has opened the door to a plurality of national and international actors, both for funding and operational activities (NGOs, associations, private companies, international organizations, etc.). This trend, which varies in form and intensity across countries, has not spared the security sector.

Donald Trump's re-election to the White House is an extraordinary event that reshuffles the cards of the American political landscape.

The 23rd edition of the Ifri's Annual Conference on the United States will seek to better understand the significance and consequences of this election in terms of the country's economic and trade policy, the reshaping of its domestic political balance, as well as its foreign policy and transatlantic relations.