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After the Prague summit “Southern Corridor - New Silk Road” on May 8, there were press reports about “major breakthroughs” concerning the pipeline project Nabucco. As the substance of agreements have not been made public, it is difficult to assess the extent of these...
'The planet will be inhabited by more than 9 billion people in 2050, hence a crucial question: will the global agricultures be able to feed a growing population?'
The causes of the failure of the WTO negotiations in Geneva are the contradictions embedded in the negotiations cycle itself, and not the question of subsidies and protectionism, as it has generally been portrayed. By renaming this negotiation 'development cycle' soon after its opening in Doha...
War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age argues that two intimately connected trends are putting modern armies under huge pressure to adapt: the rise of insurgencies and the rise of the Web. Both in cyberspace and in warfare, a public dimension has assumed increasing importance in...
This project aims at examining and comparing the ' national models of integration ' in France and the Netherlands in a context when the question of their crisis is raised. The social and political practice of the discourse about the model needs to be questioned in order to understand the...
Ambassador William C. Ramsay introduced the debate by asking some of the major questions concerning global energy governance today. Those deal with the role of the different international organizations dealing with energy, the rules of the game between market and state players...
Non-governmental organisations, and among them political foundations, have become important actors in international relations, especially since the end of the Cold War. Americans and Germans hold a prominent position, many of their foundations acting either as a support or as an opposition to...
During the last twenty years, financial globalization has strongly stimulated world growth. But it entailed a negative consequence: the spread of the financial crisis all over the world. This crisis demonstrates how necessary a new world governance system is. It must be implemented on two...
The Energy Ellipse and Human Security
Conference avec S.A.R le Prince El Hassan bin Talal de Jordanie.
Présidence : William C. Ramsay, directeur du Programme Energie, Ifri.
Unconventional Gas
As part of the Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, a seminar with Don Gautier, U.S. Geological Survey, Ewa Zalewska, Director of the Department of Geology and Geological Concessions, Ministry of the Environment, Poland, Hans Van der Loo, Head...
South-East Europe: Energy Challenges and the Role of the Energy Community
As part of the Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, A seminar with Slavtcho Neykov, Director, Energy Community Secretariat, Vienne, and Stefan Bouzarovski, Research, University of Birmingham.
Discussant : Adélaïde Boodts, Junior...
President Obama's Priorities in Clean Energy
Conference avec Cathy Zoi, Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Deparment of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
In her role as Assistant Secretary, Ms. Zoi manages the U.S. Department of Energy's $2.3 billion applied science, research,...
Current Strategic Issues in India and Pakistan
Rare Earths - Strategic inputs to Sustainability
As part of the Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, a seminar with James B. Hedrick, President, Hedrick Consultant Inc, and Christian Hocquard, Expert and Economist, BRGM). Chaired by William C. Ramsay, Senior Fellow and Director of the...
Electric Vehicles: Plug and Play ?
As part of the Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable series, a seminar with Lew Fulton, Senior Transport Energy Specialist, IEA et Thomas C. Luthy, Distributed Energy Resources Global Leader, IBM, Energy & Utilities. Chaired by William C. Ramsay<...>
European Task Force on Irregular Migration - ETFIM
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The United Kingdom Greenpaper : Issues for the Future Strategic Defence Review
The Security Studies Centre of the French Institute for International Relations is pleased to welcome Baroness Ann Taylor, the United Kingdom"s current minister for international defence and security, to a conference outlining the issues of the future strategic defence review....
UNIDIR Space Security Conference 2010: From Foundations to Negotiation
Conference organized in Geneva by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), in collaboration with the Secure World Foundation and The Simons Foundation, with support from the Governments of the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation.
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