On May, 1st, 2004, the European Union welcomed ten new member states. This enlargement, unprecedented considering its scale and its consequences, is both a chance and a challenge for the building of the European Union. It leads the Union to question its future and its very signification: what...
Publications
With over 150 publications issued each year
under an open access policy in French, English, German and Russian,
Ifri enriches the international debate with a constant concern for
objectivity, intellectual rigor, transversality, openness, and support to public and private decision-making.
A reflexion on the future of French-German relations within the ESDP.
Original title: 'Radioscopies de l'Allemagne'. This text is published in French only.
While formal unemployment has existed in Western Europe for a long time, most East Asian economies had managed to avoid this hardship until recently. Yet, as a result of the financial crisis of 1997-98 in East Asia, as well as of the protracted economic crisis in Japan and of the deep...
Congressional activities are key to the understanding of American foreign policy. The role of the Senate in ratifying treaties (with a 2/3 majority) is widely known; less known abroad is the fact that this body must also confirm, by a simple majority, all high-ranking civilian and military...
The debate on the local citizenship of migrant populations and those born from migrant populations has been vibrant for the past thirty years. Its contents have nevertheless undergone several changes.
The expansion of the Internet as a major component of the knowledge-based society has been one of the more important economic, social and political developments of the past decades. It is commonly claimed that this “revolution” has been unplanned by any government and has flourished precisely...
This book traces the turbulent relations between Russia and Turkey, these two great fallen empires who are both at Europe's gates today.
This policy brief analyzes the difficulties of funding U.S. foreign relations. The U.S. is a global superpower, but it does not always act like one.
In the 1980s and 1990s, intellectual property rights (IPRs) have increasingly been considered as a major component of the institutional nexus which promotes innovation and risky business, especially in biotechnology and information technologies (IT). At the end of the 1990s, the development of...