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North Korea Beyond Nukes: Focusing on the Human Rights Challenge
Debates surrounding North Korea are primarily focused on security issues, particularly nuclear and ballistic concerns, relegating the critical situation of the North Korean population and human rights violations to the background. The lack of information about the real living conditions of North Koreans contributes to the absence of attention and discussion on this crucial issue.

Lunch Debate with Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand
Discussion co-chaired by Thierry de Montbrial, Executive Chairman of Ifri, member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and Marc Hecker, Deputy Director of Ifri (in English without translation).

Navigating War, Reforms, and Secure Future: Ukraine’s EU and NATO Accession Path
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Allied and Aligned? The Future of Alliances in the Indo-Pacific after the US Elections
Annual Conference of Ifri's Center for Asian Studies

The challenges to European security in light of Russia’s war in Ukraine
As part of the Season of Lithuania in France, Ifri, in partnership with the Lithuanian Embassy in France, is organizing a closed-door seminar on the challenges of European security in the light of the war in Ukraine.

The Renewal of the opposition in Türkiye: the 'Kemalists' in the post-AKP perspective
In March 2024, the triumph in municipal elections of the Kemalist CHP party, main opposition force to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Islamo-conservatives, reinforces its image as a potential political alternative in Türkiye.

NATO: 75 Years of Strategic Solidarity
The war in Ukraine, burden-sharing between Allies, U.S. disengagement from Europe, new areas of conflict... At a time when the Alliance has just celebrated its 75th anniversary and the Stoltenberg era is drawing to a close after ten years at the head of the organization, NATO's agenda bears witness to the diversity of its areas of action, as well as to the different perceptions of the Allies on these issues.

Governing the urban fringes: the impacts of Africa’s urban growth on peri-urban areas
The rapid expansion of Africa’s cities is considered as one of the continent’s main socio-economic challenges.
Unlike in Europe, North America and East Asia, the spatial trend of urban expansion in sub-Saharan Africa is horizontal. Rather than growing upward through taller buildings, Africa’s cities expand into their peri-urban rural outskirts. Thus, peri-urban areas are undergoing considerable spatial, socio-economic and administrative change: farmland is absorbed by buildings and commercial activities, land prices are spiking and new class dynamics can be observed.

France-Japan Dialogue on African development: Toward the TICAD 9
Every three years, the Tokyo International Conference on Afr

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The Resurgence of Risk in Turkey
Turkey has entered a new phase of turbulence. The arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on March 19, 2025, triggered a broad protest movement, which the main opposition party, the CHP, is attempting to organize. In parallel, the government continues its peace process with the PKK — a development that could profoundly reshape the country’s political landscape. These events, which underscore the fragility of Turkey’s current political balance, are expected to have far-reaching consequences for domestic governance, economic stability, social cohesion, and, by extension, the country’s foreign policy decisions.

Russia, Iran, China, North Korea: The Nuclear Dimension of the Axis of Upheaval
In an international context marked by the resurgence of power rivalries, cooperation between Iran, China, Russia and North Korea is attracting increasing attention.

U.S. Politics: Why Are Democrats Unable to Come Up with a Project?
As President Trump's approval rating stagnates in the polls and with 18 months remaining before the November 2026 midterm elections, why is the Democratic Party unable to offer a credible and compelling alternative to middle-class American voters? On what issues and around which figures could the radical left and the moderate left find common ground by then?
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