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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Poll numbers are the life blood of politics these days. Anything expressed in digits has a claim to truth that assertions without digits cannot make. They inspire confidence - especially among those aspiring to public office - that they actually understand what public sentiment is.
There are moments in life when you receive an unmistakable sign that the game is over. That it’s time to fold your tent, to pull up stakes, to pack it in, to furl the flag, to trim the sails, to let go of a lost cause. At best, to wait for next year. In the extreme, to write it off permanently...
The memoirs of public men are exercises in self-promotion and self-justification. They are designed to etch a portrait of the (wo)man that will live across time. It's the legacy thing. These days, that legacy pertains also to the "here and now" since memoirs are not necessarily the conclusion...
Accountability is on the endangered species list. No - not the word. Indeed, “accountability” reverberates around the electronic ether almost as frequently as “thwarking.” It is the reality of persons, especially public persons, taking responsibility for acts of malfeasance in ways that entail...
Hillary Clinton has been enthroned as the presumptive next President of the United States - by the celebrity mongers, by the trendy Hollywood set, by the media, by the pundits, by the big donors, by Congressional Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer and by the Las Vegas...
Since the early 19th century, the swing state of Ohio has almost always voted for the same presidential candidate as the rest of the country. This is why every four years, politicians and the media pay so much attention to the Buckeye state.
The near meltdown of the United States government evoked worldwide dismay and confusion. Both reactions were especially acute among America’s well-wishers. For not only would they have suffered the consequences of a global economic crisis but they also feel dependent on the probity of American...
On Tuesday Barack Obama called President Francois Hollande of France to explain the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance of French government offices, businesses and private citizens. Obama stated that this was a well-meaning attempt to protect both countries from Islamic terrorism....
Defending and renewing the global order is a priority for the United States and Europe. An important part of this effort will be accomplished if transatlantic partners can successfully engage four “global swing states” — Brazil, India, Indonesia and Turkey — in the management of global issues,...
The U.S. defense budget has faced a sharp reduction since 2010, linked to the drawing down of two wars and the Great Recession.
Join Ifri for a conference on the consequences of the election and the challenges facing the new American administration. The day will begin with speeches by Thierry de Montbrial, Executive Director of Ifri, Mark Pekala,...
On June 3, 2014, Laurence Nardon, head of the United States Program at IFRI joined Fabrice Lundy on "Les décodeurs de l'éco."
Il y aura un avant et un après. En Ukraine, en Russie, dans toute l’Europe, ailleurs.
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Florence Pisani, economist, Dexia Asset Management, provides us with a most comprehensive analysis about whether or not the US current signs of macroeconomic improvement are to be trusted.
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Florence Pisani, Economist at Dexia asset Management, presents a most comprehensive analysis of the state of the U.S. economy in 2013.
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Laurence Nardon, head of the United States Program at IFRI, sheds light on Franco-American relations in an article by Sara Miller Llara in the The Christian Science Monitor.
Are America and Europe growing apart or does the U.S. still have a privileged tie with the Europeans?
Washington's relationships with a number of key allies are in a worrying decline. Israel and Saudi Arabia are keeping their distance from Barack Obama as a result of diverging opinions on nuclear negotiations with Iran.... This disenchantment also effects Afghanistan where President Karzai has...
Aurélie Godet, Associate Professor at Université Paris VII Diderot, shows an ideologically-torn Republican Party and shares her assumptions as to its possible evolutions leading to the 2016 election.
... Michael Tomasky, Editor-in-Chief of Democracy and contributor to The New York Review of Books, discusses Hillary Clinton's evolutions as a politician and her probable candidacy to the next presidential elections in 2016.
... Renowned pollster John Zogby discussed the attitudes of US public opinion regarding major reform projects launched by President Obama, such as the Affordable Care Act, immigration reform, environmental issues and foreign policy.
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