Themes
La présidence de George Bush se solde par un désastre : l'Irak, la corruption, l'incompétence, l'irresponsabilité financière et, en toile de fond, une économie qui rappelle celle de la fin de XIXe siècle, douce aux riches, dure pour les pauvres et surtout menaçante pour les classes moyennes....
In Europe and to a lesser extent in the rest of the world, the last decades have been characterized by two concomitant phenomena : the increasing cost of armament technology which has become always more sophisticated as well as the reduction in the strength of national armed forces and in...
Development aid has progressively penetrated the fields of conflicts and "fragility". It tends to become a key component of external interventions, next to military action and diplomacy. As a result, it is subjected to the final goals of those operations which, beyond the end of confrontations...
Global health and environmental issues, such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, or global climate change, are increasingly perceived as security issues by policymakers, members of the civil society or the private sector, and populations at large. This working paper seeks to elucidate the very process...
What is the role of terror in wars in general and in asymmetric conflicts in particular? Why have democratic countries such as France and the United States been confronted to torture in Algeria and Irak? Do terrorists have to be "terrorized"? That article aims at exploring some lines of...
Our study, focused on gas prices in importing economies, describes wholesale prices and retail prices, their evolution for the last one or two decades, the economic mechanisms of price formation.
As part of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Ifri Energy program, this background paper written by Coby van der Linde, director of the Clingendael International Energy, provided the participants with insight and analysis. Two other background papers have been...
This article is published in the special issue celebrating the 30th anniversary of Commentaire, a French journal created by Raymond Aron. The aim of the article is to analyze the evolutions of terrorism over the past three decades.
The influenza A/H1N1: Managing pandemics
With Jean-Claude Desenclos, Scientific Director, Institut de Veille Sanitaire (InVS), Monique Eloit, adjunct Director, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and Didier Houssin, interministerial delegate to the fight against avian...
Assessing the Current Dynamics of Space Security
Thursday June 18th
Welcome and introduction, Laurence Nardon, Head of the Space Policy Program,Ifri and Ray Williamson, Executive Director, SWF
Session 1 : The EU draft Code of...
Turkey, Azerbaijan and the Southern Gas Corridor
Dans le cadre de l'Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, un séminaire avec la participation de Yurdakul Yigitgüden, ancien Sous-secrétaire d'Etat au Ministère turc de l'Energie, Elshad Nassirov, Vice-Président, SOCAR (tbc) et Brendan Devlin<...>
Nuclear Renaissance in the United States
Conférence avec son Excellence Kristine L. Svinicki, commissaire de la US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Discutant : Luis Echavarri, directeur de l'Agence Energie Nucléaire, OCDE. Présidence : William C. Ramsay, directeur du Programme...
Energy Diversification : The case for LNG
Avec la participation de Ian Cronshaw, chef de la Division Energy Diversification, Agence internationale de l'énergie, Tom Vanden Borre, DG Energie & Transport, Commission Européenne.
Moderateur : William C. Ramsay, directeur du...
Managing health and environmental risks and crises. Lessons from Europe and Asia.
The second international seminar of the Health&Environment programme will bring together researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from all over Europe and Asia, to debate the current prevention and management systems of health and environment...
Global Energy Governance
Conférence avec Tatsuo Masuda, Professeur, Tokyo Institute of Technology (SIMOT) et professeur invité, Université Paris-Dauphine, André Mernier, Secrétaire Général, Energy Charter Secretariat, et Richard Jones, Directeur Adjoint, Agence...
Can The Armed Forces Be A Model Of Integration?
Christophe Bertossi's audition by the Intercommittee No. 2 of the 61st National Session, Institut des hautes études de la défense nationale (IHEDN).
Family Reunion, Regularisation, Co-Development: Is the "European Pact on Immigration and Asylum" still useful?
Conference with Thomas Huddleston, Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group, and Henry Marti-Gauquié, Director, Liaison with International Organizations, European Investment Bank Group Representative in Paris. Chaired : Christophe Bertossi,...
What Future for the Rating Agency?
The Economic Studies organises a cycle of seminars with the aim of understanding the evolution and the solutions of the financial and economic crisis. The first roundtable will be conducted by Gilles de Margerie, directeur Banque privée, Capital investissement et...
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