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Only devised a few years ago, the concept of the Indo-Pacific seeks to express a new configuration of the world’s globalization. In terms of economic exchange and power distribution, the Indo-Pacific is a unitary region spanning from the Persian Gulf to the Pacific, where all the major powers...
The European Union did respond to the massive influx of migrants in 2015, but with short-term measures, which have widened the divisions between member states.
The architecture of democracy is complex, coupling a legal framework to a social foundation that allows it to take root.
The war in Yemen has entered its fifth year, and the situation is more complex than ever.
Elections are held on a regular basis in various African countries, but democracy is far from flourishing.
To create a political shift that draws a line under conflict once and for all, it is not always enough to draft a democratic constitution and call elections.
Mauritania's political system displays certain democratic qualities that go some way to meeting international standards.
This text was published in Politique étrangère in 1979, the year in which the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) was created.
The last four decades have witnessed the profound transformation of the very foundations of the international system: the globalization of trade, technical revolutions, the upheaval of the hierarchy of powers, the emergence of China, the explosion of the Middle-East, the mutation of conflicts...
The notion of power has long been a topic of study in international relations. In the coming decade, the evolution of power will be characterized by the dynamics of concentration and dispersion.
