06/06/2018
The cyber world has undoubtedly become a part of geopolitics, in the way that it shapes, in its own way, relationships between the actors of the international stage.
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.
Elie TENENBAUM
Research Fellow, Director of Ifri's Security Studies Center
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Jérémy BACHELIER
Military Fellow, Security Studies Center
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Héloïse FAYET
Research Fellow, Security Studies Center
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Amélie FEREY
Research Fellow, Head of the Defense Research Unit - LRD, Security Studies Center
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Léo PÉRIA-PEIGNÉ
Research Fellow, Security Studies Center
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Amélie ZIMA
Research Fellow, Head of European and Transatlantic Security Program, Security Studies Center
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Marc HECKER
Deputy Director of Ifri, Editor-in-Chief of Politique étrangère, and research fellow at the Security Studies Center
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Pierre NÉRON-BANCEL
Military fellow within the Defense Research Unit of IfriI’s Center for Security Studies.
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Guillaume GARNIER
Associate Research Fellow, Security Studies Center
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Jean-Louis LOZIER
Advisor, Security Studies Center
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Jean-Christophe NOËL
Associate Research Fellow, Security Studies Center
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06/06/2018
Cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and more sophisticated.
06/06/2018
Since 2015, several countries in the European Union have been hit by attacks.
18/05/2018
US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will severely degrade regional and global security. His decision has increased the risk of war and a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and beyond. ...
04/05/2018
Something is happening with the military forces of the Arab monarchies in the Gulf.
13/04/2018
How can we define Emmanuel Macron’s foreign policy since he took office? After Nicolas Sarkozy’s brazen style of “gutsy diplomacy” and François Hollande’s “normal diplomacy”, the eighth president of the Fifth Republic seems to have opted for an agile classicism. In substance, he makes no claim...
10/04/2018
This study, based on original judicial sources, assesses the profiles of 137 individuals sentenced in France for cases related to jihadism.
16/02/2018
Transatlantic differences over the future of the Iran nuclear deal – or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) of July 2015 – are damaging a nuclear accord that all parties, except the United States, see as delivering on its purpose. They also increase the risk of Washington and...
20/12/2017
For about 20 years, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as an essential tool for crisis recovery and reconstructing weak and failed states at the heart of the security-development continuum. It is time to take stock of the lessons learnt about SSR and to offer an analysis of good...
18/12/2017
The ability to penetrate remote and contested theaters of operation is a crucial asset for any expeditionary military power.