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Laurence

Nom de l'expert

NARDON

Research Fellow, Head of the Americas Program, Ifri

Research Areas:

History of Political Ideologies in the United States
U.S. Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations
U.S Trade Policy Evolutions and Relations with China

Americas Program

Dr. Laurence Nardon heads the Ifri Americas Program. She edits and contributes to its collections of online research papers, such as the U.S.-focused Potomac Papers. Laurence is a member of the editorial board of the reviews "Politique étrangère", "Questions Internationales" and "The Washington Quarterly". She published "L'Amérique de Trump en 100 questions" with Tallandier in 2018. Since June 2019, she has been analyzing the issues of American politics every week in the podcast “New Deal” (formerly “Trump 2020”), produced in partnership with Slate.fr and the Time to Sign Off (TTSO) newsletter. Episodes are posted online on Wednesdays.

She also teaches a class on Civil Society in the United States at Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and is a columnist for the weekly paper "Réforme".

Prior to joining Ifri, she was a research fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), then a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, from 2001 to 2003.

Laurence Nardon holds a Ph.D. in political science from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She studied at the University of Kent at Canterbury after graduating from Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. In the Fall of 2000, she was a Fulbright Scholar at The George Washington University in D.C.

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Publications

Memos

From the Digital Levy to the Taxation of Multinationals: Joe Biden's Tax Revolution

15 April 2021

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is conducting important negotiations this spring to reform international taxation.

Laurence NARDON Siméon RUST

European Strategic Autonomy and the Biden Presidency

08 February 2021

Some twenty international personalities from different horizons and backgrounds were asked to reflect on the impact of the Biden presidency for the future of European strategic autonomy.

Laurence NARDON

Papers

Guerre commerciale entre les US et la Chine

The US-China Trade War: What Is the Outcome after the Trump Presidency?

19 November 2020

One of Donald Trump’s campaign promises in 2016 was to end China’s “cheating” on trade and to reduce America's trade deficit by imposing significant tariffs on U.S. imports of Chinese products. This study draws up a first assessment of his policy - and of the "trade war" which stemmed from it.

Laurence NARDON Mathilde VELLIET

Studies

American, Chinese, and European Union Flags

Technology Strategies in China and the United States, and the Challenges for European Companies

15 October 2020

As international relations are increasingly reorganized around the US-China rivalry, the tensions between these two great powers are shaping a growing number of sectors, and the exchange of sensitive technologies in particular. This is a critical issue for European companies today.

Laurence NARDON Sofia BOURNOU Jean-François BUREAU Pierre GIRARD André LOESEKRUG-PIETRI Éric-André MARTIN John SEAMAN Mathilde VELLIET Marion WELLES

Politique étrangère

What Will US Foreign Policy Look Like After 2020?

08 June 2020

The results of the US presidential election in November 2020 are very uncertain.

Laurence NARDON

US Foreign Policy: Mr. Trump's Foreboding Vision

08 March 2019

Since Donald Trump’s rise to power, American foreign policy has become more unpredictable. Nonetheless, several coherent strategies stand out, in particular those that advocate a nationalist approach. An examination of Trump’s entourage also reveals some more conventional figures, who may exert some degree of influence. However, there may yet be surprises to come.

Laurence NARDON

Papers

U.S. Visions of China: From Henry Kissinger to Donald Trump

23 November 2017

Chinese power continues to grow both militarily and economically: its disputed territorial gains in the South China Sea are complemented by its extensive investment initiative in the New Silk Roads through the Eurasian continent.

Laurence NARDON

Studies

Trump, un an après. Un monde à l'état de nature ?

02 November 2017

In the week following Trump’s election, Ifri published a study to identify the likely changes in U.S. foreign policy. From the outset, this election appeared as a change in the U.S.’ trajectory, with consequences on the power relations and functioning of the international system.

Thomas GOMART Laurence NARDON Marc HECKER Barbara KUNZ Françoise NICOLAS Vivien PERTUSOT Matthieu TARDIS Jean-François BOITTIN

Studies

Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next French President

31 March 2017

France’s current presidential campaign has created an unprecedented situation fuelled by revelations and a total absence of restraint, but it has not truly taken account of the disruptions of the last year: Brexit, the attempted coup in Turkey, the election of Donald Trump, the recapturing of Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad, Xi Jinping’s declarations about “economic globalization”, or the behavior of North Korea. The debate, or rather its absence, can be looked at in two ways.

Thomas GOMART Marc HECKER Alain ANTIL Marie-Claire AOUN Christophe BERTOSSI Corentin BRUSTLEIN Alice EKMAN Sébastien JEAN Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN Barbara KUNZ Frédéric MONLOUIS-FÉLICITÉ Laurence NARDON Françoise NICOLAS Julien NOCETTI Céline PAJON Michel PÉBEREAU Vivien PERTUSOT Dorothée SCHMID John SEAMAN Hans STARK Matthieu TARDIS