Ifri's work on the Americas 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.
Since 2023, a specific axis on Latin America structures more actively Ifri's research on the region, particularly on energy policies but also on important democratic and geo-economic issues.
Ifri's Canada program was active in 2015 and 2016.
Research Fellow, Head of Ifri's Americas Program
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Advisor to the Americas Program
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Advisor to the Americas Programme
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Associate Research Fellow, Americas Programme / Center for Energy and Climate
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As confirmed by the 2010 Census, Hispanics have become the largest and most dynamic ethnic minority in the United States. While still facing many difficulties, this rather diverse group is undergoing important changes in terms of political representation, economic situation and cultural...
Many voices denounce the institutional gridlock that has gripped Washington. Indeed, filibustering in the U.S. Senate is not the only issue. Hopes of a reform are limited however.
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Opposing environment protection policies has become a posture de rigueur for U.S. radical conservatives, especially in view of the 2012 campaign. This theme finds itself at the crossroads of several currents of American conservatism: a distrust of scientific elites, trust in the...
California enjoys a strong economy, backed by a strong immigration. Traditionally, this strength was reinforced by consistent investments from Sacramento, allowing for infrastructure development and education policies. In past decades, however, the idea that the state should do less has taken...
Larry J. Sabato, Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, provides us with solid historical references and tools of analysis to understand midterms in general and those of 2010 in particular.
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One month after the midterm elections, it was time to step back and reflect upon the state of affairs at the time and future direction of President Obama’s Administration and deal with which campaign promises might be achieved in the remaining years and how the political parties would rally...
Many Europeans are unaware of Obama's commitment to secondary school reform. The US administration introduced administrative methods inspired by the private sector to combat poor test results in public middle and high schools with large minority populations. This approach is consistent with...
The emergence of a feminist thought in the 18th century gave rise to steady and regular exchanges between French philosophers and American activists. They illustrate in a very particular sector the wealth of the relation between both countries. This dialogue continues on renewed bases today:...
Between dignity and racial prejudice, empathy and weakness, intelligence and paralysis, will the talents of the presidential candidate become handicaps for the 44th president?
After hurricane Katrina in 2005, images of the miserable and abandoned black community of New Orleans surfaced. This portrait of a black underclass mired in poverty is not thoroughly representative of African Americans in the U.S., however.
Bruce Stokes (Director, Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center) presents an in-depth analysis of the U.S. presidential campaign.
The Fall seminar of the United States Program at Ifri took place on October 3, the day of the first presidential TV debate.
... Dr Laurence Nardon,senior resarch fellow and head of the United States Program at Ifri summarizes the key elements regarding the current American presidential elections right after the Party Conventions
... Anne lorraine Bujon, associate research fellow at Ifri, answers Laurence Nardon about Mormonism in the United States which seems to have entered a new chapter of its history with the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney.
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The November election campaign is in full swing in the United States, with the new rules authorizing unlimited private financing now in place. How exactly will this unfold? What impact could the this change in financing have on American democracy and the way it operates? Anne Deysine, a...
