23/02/2021
To what extent has the COVID-19 pandemic affected defense priorities across Europe?
Security and Defense
The relative simplicity of the Cold War has given way to a series of crises and conflicts involving heterogeneous actors and unpredictable situations. Today, security studies require an integrated approach that takes into account both regional and global dimensions, as well as political trends (coalitions, pressure from the media, strategic rivalries and limited wars) and military dynamics (nuclear and conventional capabilities, reduced force structures, types and methods of intervention).
Since the 1990s, Ifri’s Security Studies Center has stimulated debate and contributed to the improvement of strategic thinking in France through its conferences and widely read publications (in French and English). The Center also works on behalf of public and private policymakers through briefs and closed-door seminars.
Ifri's Security Studies Center analyzes traditional defense issues as well as the evolution of the broader field of security. The Center’s programs are designed to be enduring and cross disciplinary, and are conducted with the help of other Ifri research units. Through its innovative work, the Center has two objectives: influencing a wide public with its publications – in particular its two electronic paper series “Focus stratégique” and “Proliferation Papers” – and making recommendations to all the actors involved in public security. Accordingly, various reports and projects are realized on behalf of the Ministries of Defense, the Interior and Foreign Affairs.
Corentin BRUSTLEIN
Research Fellow, Director of Ifri's Security Studies Center
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Raphaël BRIANT
Research Fellow, Security Studies Center
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Jean-Baptiste FLORANT
Military Fellow, Defense Research Unit (LRD), Security Studies Center
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Marc HECKER
Director of Research and Communications, Editor-in-Chief of Politique étrangère, and research fellow at the Security Studies Center
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Aline LEBOEUF
Associate Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, Defense Research Unit
Michel PESQUEUR
Military Fellow, Security Studies Center, Defense Research Unit (LRD)
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Laure DE ROCHEGONDE
Research Fellow, Security Studies Center
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Elie TENENBAUM
Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, coordinator of the Defense Research Unit (LRD)
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Jean-Christophe NOËL
Associate Research Fellow, Security Studies Center
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Alice PANNIER
Research Fellow, Head of Ifri's Geopolitics of Technologies Program
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