Ifri's work on the North America region focuses mainly on the United States. Indeed, for more than 20 years, Ifri's United States program has provided keys to understanding American society and domestic policy while shedding light on developments in the country's foreign policy, including transatlantic relations and trade issues.
Ifri's Canada program was active in 2015 and 2016.
Research Fellow, Head of Ifri's North America Program
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Associate Research Fellow, North America Program
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Associate Research Fellow, North America Program
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California benefits from a long-time extraordinarily positive image. Because of its climate, its cultural diversity, its size, its population and its energy wealth, California itself represents the essence of the American dream, every day attracting new hopeful migrants.
CSIS expert Jeff Mankoff explains the reasons of the crisis in Ukraine, and how the U.S. should try to reestablish a more stable situation in central Europe, mixing containment and engagement of the Russian partner.
Once widely praised as one of the best shows on television, Homeland will be back for a fourth season starting next week. The show was originally intended as a breaking point with the one-sided and trigger-happy foreign policy of the Bush administration. However,
Cette Actuelle est la quatrième d'une série de quatre Chroniques américaines sur l'éducation aux Etats-Unis, publiées cette semaine.
The United States has established itself as the indisputable global leader in the digital market followed by more interventionist actors such as Russia and China. Europe has fallen behind as it struggles to find its place in this crucial sector. The new European Commission must respond and...
This piece is the thrid in a series of four Chroniques américaines on education in the United States, published this week.
This piece is the second in a series of four Chroniques américaines on education in the United States, published this week.
This piece is the first in a series of four Chroniques américaines on education in the United States, published this week.
At times of TTIP negotiations, the American food industry frightens the Europeans. Having elaborated marketing practices and also unhealthy foodstuffs, it is largely kept responsible for obesity epidemic which strikes the United States since the 1980s. however, the American civil society...
President Obama presented the case for his foreign policy last week – again. He addressed the cadet corps at West Point in what was billed as a comprehensive strategic statement for the balance of his tenure in office, and for America's future. Obama's speech came just over a week...
In the last year, mainstream Americans have taken part in a series of apparently spontaneous demonstrations, calling for more conservatism, raising against big governement, especially high taxes and the healthcare system overhaul. In reference to the famous revolutionary episode, they call...
Cycle of seminars about United States “The Obama Presidency - Year 2: A Defining Moment?”
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In January 2009, the United States celebrated with enthusiasm the arrival of its new President at the White House. One year later, they are doubting and more divided than ever. The economy, then, was going backward by 5% a year and finance was close to collapse. Today the recovery is...
Cycle of seminars about United States “The Obama Presidency - Year 2: A Defining Moment?”
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On the occasion of Barack Obama's Nobel Peace prize-giving ceremony
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This will be the fifth seminar co-hosted by Faf and IFRI. The debate will take place in English and we will be joined by Gouverneur Howard H. Dean.
... Fourth seminar from the "An American Renaissance" series in partnership with the French American Foundation.
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Event with Dominique Moïsi, Special Council to Ifri and Visiting Professor at Harvard.
Facilitated by Jacques Mistral, Director of Economic Studies at Ifri.
Second seminar from the "An American Renaissance" series organized in conjunction with the French American Foundation France.
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The first seminar in the series co-hosed by Ifri and the French American Foundation France (FAF) will examine the likelihood that Obama's economic policy will pull the U.S. out of the recession. The event will discuss the effects of President Obama's plan, the...
Michael Lind, Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C, was the guest of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) on September 29th 2014. In this video, he discusses the evolution of globalization.
Michael Lind, Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C, was the guest of the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) on September 29th 2014. In this video, he analyzes the major economic trends post-2008, and...
Michael Lind,of the New America Foundation, visited IFRI on September 29, 2014 for a seminar on "the beginning of a new pollitical term in Washington". In this video he disccusses the constraints on U.S. foreign policy, notably in its fight against ISIS in the Middle East.
Michael Lind, Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C, was the guest of the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) on September 29th 2014. In this video, he discusses the evolution of US politics and party...
Almost 7 years ago, Barack Obama was elected on a promise:to end wars. Just as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, Barack Obama announcd this week that America will begin another war against terror, this time in Iraq and Syria. Why does the American president feel the accute...
ISIS's recent military advances in Iraq leave some reconsidering American intervention in the region.
Iraq is in chaos: unleashed ancestral hatred, civil war, religious war, porous borders, embarrassed chancellery,the rise of a jihad spanning from the Sahara to the Sahel that even recruits in Europe, quick conquest by ISIS.... looking at the situation that Sunnis and Shiites face in Iraq...
One could say that the President of the United States, with just over two years left in his second term, worries about the state of the country he will leave for his successors. "What America will Obama leave the world?"
