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Michael Lind will join Ifri for this seminar on the current state of the United States as it approaches midterm elections and the country's longterm outlook.
Co-founder of the New America Foundation, Michael Lind is one of the most innovative thinkers on the evolution of conservative and nationalist thought in the United States. In one of his recent articles, he explains that American conservatism is in decline for demographic reasons. He also addresses the American conservative approach to foreign policy. (American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and The American Way of Life, Oxford University Press, 2006).
M. Lind has studied the history of his home state of Texas in Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics, Basic Books, 2002. More recently, as the Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation, he has written on economic issues. (Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States, HarperCollins, 2012).
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The United States and the World: what can we expect in the near future?
Michael Lind,of the New America Foundation, visited IFRI on September 29, 2014 for a seminar on "the beginning of a new pollitical term in Washington". In this video he disccusses the constraints on U.S. foreign policy, notably in its fight against ISIS in the Middle East.
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Brussels, Germany, France and Italy Facing the Energy and Industrial Crises: Coordinated or Diverging Trajectories?
Amidst soaring defense spending, higher borrowing costs, erosion of energy intensive industries, renewed energy price hikes and possibly physical shortages, the European Union and its Member States are again struggling to stabilize the European economies. Governments are tempted by uncoordinated, short-term moves while in Brussels, there is a struggle between the “more of the same” and the “scrap it largely” approaches to the transition.
Geopolitical stakes of the New Moon race
As the United States, China, and India solidify their lunar ambitions, Europe is still seeking to define its stance: should it be a reliable partner or an autonomous strategic player? This conference will examine the stakes of this new race to the Moon and Europe’s interest in asserting itself as a lunar power through partnerships, industrial ambitions, and whether its participation in the new lunar race serves as a lever for strategic autonomy and internal cohesion, or an illustration of its dependence.