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The Obama Presidency - Year 3: Gridlock or Opportunity? Seminar Series on the United States
The American Muslim community differs from those in France and Europe as a whole. For example, it benefits from high income and education levels that provide hope for integration without religious intolerance. Ten years after 9/11, many signs of Islamophobia are yet to dissappear. What does the Ameican Dream look like for Muslim-Americans today?
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Mansouria Mokhefi, head of Ifri's Middle East and North Africa program and former professor at Vassar College, New York
David Kaplan, Associate Professor of Geography, Kent State University, Chair in Geopolitics at the Institut français de géopolitique, University of Paris 8
Djelloul Beghoura, producer, France Télévision
Facilitator : Christophe Guillemin, Executive Director at the French American Foundation - France
In partnership with the French American Foundation - France
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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?