Publications

As Brexit fast approaches, what can be said about the key issues? Politique étrangère summarizes them with four questions.

The aim of multilateral trade as established after the Second World War was to prevent trade wars.

In a context defined by the failure of military interventions, multiple attacks, and criticized parliamentary elections, uncertainty reigns over the country.

Mexico’s Energy Reform (hereafter, the Reform) enacted on December 20^th 2013, and the Secondary Laws adopted on August 11^th 2014, marked a milestone in the history and the development of the Mexican energy sector.

This study analyses the joint efforts by France and Germany to bring about a comprehensive reform of the European currency union. These efforts culminated in the joint Meseberg Declaration adopted in June 2018. The article contextualises these efforts with respect to the reforms realised so...

Often described as an “ungoverned area”, the Niger-Libya border is nevertheless at the centre of major economic, political and security challenges. Both the Libyan authorities and the Nigerien state are struggling to establish tight control over this particularly isolated area. 

This study analyses the various mechanisms that explain the leakage of the main source wealth in Nigeria at all levels of the production and commercialization of oil and gas, from the wellheads, with the bunkering of pipelines, up to the export of crude oil and the import of refined products,...

African borders are well-known for their porosity. Although they are crucial economic interfaces, they also crystallize political and security...

For decades, the Franco-Japanese partnership has essentially been characterised by a vibrant cultural exchange as well as by sound economic relations. Today Japan is France’s second-largest trading partner in Asia (after China) and its leading Asian investor.

The Trump Administration’s Indo-Pacific security strategy is a case study in foreign policymaking under a non-unitary executive.