The Dysfunctional Institutions of America: is the U.S. Democratic System Endangered?
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Ninth seminar of the United States Program at Ifri and the French American Foundation France.
The growing polarization of political life in the United States prevents the two parties from finding working compromises. This brings about an increasing distrust of the American people towards the political elite and the DC institutions. Are the federal system and the institutions put in place by the Constitution more than 200 years ago still in working order today?
With Arthur Goldhammer, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Translator ; Nicole Bacharan, Research Associate, FNSP and Antoine Garapon, Vice-President, Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice. Chaired by Jacques Mistral, Head of Economic Studies, Ifri.
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Nuclear Sharing in Europe: A Contested Policy That Endures
Since the end of the Cold War, the number of US nuclear weapons stationed in Europe has fallen more than seventy-fold, yet their presence in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey remains a quiet pillar of NATO's deterrence posture. This "nuclear sharing" arrangement, central to the Alliance since its founding, has long been contested by public opinion, political parties, and civil society across Europe, without ever being abandoned by host governments. This paradox lies at the heart of the seminar: why does such an unpopular policy persist?