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Cycle of seminars about United States “The Obama Presidency - Year 2: A Defining Moment?”
Sixth seminar organised by IFRI and the French-American Foundation.
One year ago, Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States. Today, he is striving to deliver health care reform, climate change and financial regulation legislation while dealing with two wars in the midst of one of the largest crises that the world has ever known. Is this the beginning of the decline and erosion to the U.S. position as a world superpower?
With Earl H. Fry, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Member of the Paris and New York Bars; Pierre Rousselin, Vice-Director, Editorial Department for International Affairs. Chaired by: Michel Garcin, President of the Directoire, French-American Foundation - France
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The Future of Space Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities in the Trump II Era
The policy orientations of the Trump II administration profoundly challenge the foundations of international cooperation in space science and exploration. This shift reflects a broader trend of strategic disengagement and weakening of multilateral mechanisms in the space domain.
Strategic Autonomy and Asia amid Rising Geoeconomic Competition
Amid growing strategic and geopolitical uncertainty, Europe is grappling with the notion of its strategic autonomy. For Europe’s partners in Asia, the concept is also becoming increasingly salient as the world enters an era of structural transformation.
France-Germany, The Engine Under Pressure
Faced with a profoundly disrupted strategic and economic environment, Franco-German cooperation is more than ever the central pillar of Europe's future. The war in Ukraine, energy and technological dependence, and uncertainty about the strength of the transatlantic ties require urgent deepening of European sovereignty, both in terms of defence and economic and industrial competitiveness.