Media Interventions

The speakers from the Annual Conference on the United States summarize their talks in short videos. Here, E.J. Dionne discusses Barack Obama's presidency and evaluates potential candidates for the 2016 presidential election. 

The speakers from the Annual Conference on the United States summarize their talks in short videos. Here, Jeff Mankoff analyzes the strategies put in place by the United States with hopes of containing the situation in Ukraine.

For the past two years, French experts on terrorism have felt anxious. They often emphasized: “The question is not whether France will be targeted by a terrorist attack, but when.” The dreaded attack took place on January 7th, 2015. That evening, various speakers across the media expressed their solidarity with the victims, but also criticized intelligence agencies for their failure, and asked for the implementation of a completely different strategy or the adoption of a new antiterrorist law. Never mind that the last one was only voted on a couple of months ago — the mere occurrence of the attacks shows that something went wrong somewhere. The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, didn’t hide this fact and asked for a thorough report. But let’s face it: No antiterrorist scheme is foolproof. The attack against Charlie Hebdo should not lead to an entire rethink of a French system that had become stronger over the years and now seems solid.

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The speakers from the Annual Conference on the United States summarize their talks in short videos. Here, Françoise Nicolas considers what is at stake for Asia-Pacific countries, notably China, in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Lancées début 2013 pour tirer l’Archipel de la déflation, les « Abenomics » sont d’ambitieux programme de relance du premier ministre, Shinzo Abe. 

Invité: l’économiste Claude Meyer spécialiste de la zone Asie.

Dans 3D dimanche, partout la Chine, désormais 1ère puissance économique mondiale devant les Etats-Unis selon le FMI (Fonds Monétaire International). Or, l'Histoire démontre que pouvoir politique et militaire ont toujours dépendu de la puissance économique.