Between clear perils and black swans: the strategic challenges after COVID-19
Practical information
A "Les Jeudis de l'Ifri" videoconférence around Corentin BRUSTLEIN, Director of Ifri's Security Studies Center.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights both the appetites for power and the limits of cooperation and governance mechanisms. While its short-term effects on the armed forces and the defense industrial and technological base were identified early enough, the longer-term security challenges are manifold. Some are already visible, like the multiplying strategic signals and the opportunity effects exploited by all types of actors in the vicinity of Europe as everywhere else, which recall the omnipresence of the balance of power. While many other effects remain more uncertain, gloomy prospects are emerging, which may combine a sudden acceleration of strategic competition, catastrophic humanitarian situations and budget cuts for the French armies and their closest partners. The challenge for the French defense strategy is therefore more than ever to give itself back some leeway, by re-articulating both its priorities and its discourse.
This debate is for corporate members only. It will be conducted in French.
Speakers
Related Subjects
Other events

U.S. Energy Policies Under President Trump, Six Months on: Implications and Perspectives
The Trump administration has a strong and determined view on energy policies, with objectives to boost cheap, firm energy supplies for the US economy and the world and achieve energy dominance. Six months after taking office, this seminar aims at discussion the administration’s first moves and their implications for the US economy and beyond.