A new military competition is born in space. All the great powers, and especially China, know that in this field lie the force and the weakness of the United States: hence Beijing's attempt—symbolized by the test in January 2007—to develop anti-satellite weapons. In such a context,...

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Thanks to the renewed funding capacities of the federal budget, Russian space is back on tracks. Russia had very largely lost its eminent positions in space technologies in the 1990's. However, the current restructuring strategy seems incomplete: there is no true privatization or opening to...
European space policies and programmes develop in institutions (the European Union, the European Space Agency, national agencies) that operate with different goals and modalities. The recent experience of the Galileo and GMES programmes seems to argue in favor of a more exigent organisation,...
Since the late 1980s a number of regional developments have impacted upon South Korea's political and economic standing in Asia. China's spectacular growth and closer integration with its neighbouring economies, along with a tendency toward more assertive political and...
For a long time, French and British integration policies have formed two mutually exclusive paradigms. Based on ideological elements introduced by the French Revolution, French citizenship refuses any ethno-racial based distinction in the public sphere. In comparison with this conception of...
Until recently, the only formal body of regional integration in East Asia was the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which had been established in 1967, primarily for political reasons and with modest economic ambitions. As a result, East Asia has long been said to be the champion...
Russia has been a major space power since the very beginning of the space era. After a difficult decade, it is now reshaping its space effort. A new Federal Space Program has been launched and a vast effort of industrial reorganization is currently underway. This "Note de l'Ifri" gives an...
This paper was published in Building the Architecture for Sustainable Security, UNIDIR 2006-17, pp.23-30.
For a long time, French military with migration background have been counting on the army to erase the social and cultural prejudice they have been suffering. But are they really military as others or are they constituing a specific population? Does the French army offers the opportunity for...
At a time when negotiations between partners in the Galileo Concession are so difficult, it seems urgent to optimize the Galileo business case by identifying new applications for the system's five signals. This Note tries to assess ways to enhance Galileo's future profits. The principle of...
Unbundling, Regulation and Network coordination : How the third liberalization package will change power markets ?
Dans le cadre de la Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, un séminaire avec Pierre Bornard, Directeur du Comité Exécutif d'ETSO, Emmanuel Cabau, Coordinateur Général du troisième paquet, COMMISSION EUROPEENNE, Matthias Dürr, Représentant...
The External Energy Policy of the European Union - Annual Conference of the Ifri Energy Program
Première conférence annuelle du programme Énergie de l'Ifri avec la participation notamment de SG/HR Javier Solana et de Andris Piebalgs, Commissaire Européen de l'Énergie. Représentants de la Commission Européenne et de...
Lessons from Bali: Implications for the EU ETS
Ce séminaire, organisé en deux sessions, traitera des perspectives de la lutte contre le changement climatique après la tenue à Bali de la treizième United Nations Climate Change Conference et tentera d'étudier les conséquences éventuelles pour le système européen d'échanges de quotas...
What are the Key Drivers for Oil Prices ?
Fossil Fuels in Tomorrow's Energy World Technological Trends
Dans le cadre de la Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, un séminaire avec Olivier Appert, président de l'Institut Français du Pétrole, IFP, Neil Hirst, AIE, directeur du département "Technologies de l'Énergie et R&D" et Ioannis Galanis<...>
US Energy Policy
Oil and Middle East Energy Power Games
Dans le cadre de la Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, un séminaire avec Antoine Ayoub, Professeur Emerite à l'Université de Laval, Québec, Denis Bauchard, conseiller de l'Unité Moyen-Orient Maghreb à l'Ifri et John Mitchell, chercheur...
Integration and Ethno-Cultural, Religious and National Diversity in Europe
Intervention de Christophe Bertossi et Laurence Neumayer à l'Université d'été du Conseil de l'Europe, Strasbourg.
EU-Russia Energy Relations: What Next ?
Dans le cadre de la Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, un séminaire avec l'ambassadeur Vladimir Chizhov, représentant de la Fédération de Russie auprès de l'Union Européenne et André Mernier, sécrétaire général, Secrétariat de la charte de l'énergie....
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