Annual Conference of Ifri's Center for Asian Studies

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.  

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. 

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.

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.

Every three years, the Tokyo International Conference on Afr

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In July, Japan held the 10^th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM Summit) in Tokyo. This summit served as a significant milestone to demonstrate Japan’s heightened involvement in the region. In recent years, the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) have been actively courted by China. 

The EU has made extraordinary progress in deploying more renewable energy sources, to such an extent that major electricity system disbalances are appearing.