After a rather long span of high growth rates, slow inflation and financial stability, the world faces a period of prices volatility, economic uncertainty, social instability and loss of confidence. In order to implement anti-deflationist and fiscal pro-growth policies, and to organise...
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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...
Paradoxically, Russia's military success during the "five day war" in the South Caucasus in August 2008 highlighted the deplorable state of its conventional armed forces, weakened by years of underfunding, failed reforms and declining social prestige. Nevertheless, the Kremlin sees the...
Thirty years after the start of the policy of reform and opening up launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the political system and Chinese society are considerably more open. However, there still are many gray areas, one of which is the question of decision-making: the way the decision-making...
Summary: This discussion paper proposes an analysis of incompleteness peace processes in Eastern Congo which have resulted in a stalemate - a stalemate which has encouraged the conflict's actors to prioritize using force in order to impose " their solution " (victorious blitzkrieg from...
On September 6, 2008, the 53 year-old Asif Ali Zardari won the presidential election by an overwhelming majority. In donning the presidential mantle, he described his victory as "another step towards the transition to democracy".
The European Commission's proposal for an Eastern Partnership has found a groundswell of support in the run up to the Prague Eastern Summit in May. The Commission's vision sees both strengthened bilateralism as well as innovative multilateral initiatives and ‘flagship' projects to put...
A number of countries have chosen recently to shift away from an exclusive support to trade multilateralism and towards regional or bilateral trade agreements. Being no exceptions in this respect, the Republic of South Korea and the European Union have engaged in a bilateral...
A widely held consensus view claims that East Asia has been shifting recently from a market-led to an institution-based form of regional economic integration, primarily as a result of the 1997-1998 financial crisis. Next to post-crisis financial cooperation schemes under the...
China has become an important provider of development assistance (through grants and soft loans) to Central Asian states. The focus of this study is the two states of the region most in need of aid: Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The paper discusses the characteristics of Chinese assistance,...
USA and France facing Maghreb in revolution
Conference with Charles Cogan, Harvard University, Dominique Moïsi, special adviser, Ifri,Mansouria Mokhefi, head of Maghreb Middle East programme, Jean-Yves Moisseron, research fellow, IRD, editor in chief of the review Maghreb Machrek.
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Opening a New Session in Washington
"The Obama Presidency - Year 3: Gridlock or Opportunity? "
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The Internet in Russia and China
co-organized by the Russia/NIS Center and the Center for Asian Studies,
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Geopolitics in the Arctic:
Lunch debate with Lassi Heininen, University lecturer and Adjunct Professor at the faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Finland.
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The Second Brazil Business Summit
The Economist Conferences organizes on July 7th 2011 "The Second Brazil Business Summit", an opportunity to review developments in the Brazilian market following the 2010 presidential elections.
Ifri is a supporting...
Unemployment, Double Dip, Debt, and Deficit: a worrying American forcast
The Obama Presidency - Year 3: Gridlock or Opportunity? Cycle de séminaires sur les États-Unis
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The Russian Elite in Search of a Development Model
The next Russian president will take up office in one year's time. With a mandate now fixed at six years, his vision for the country will be implemented to 2018. Russia's development model and its implications for the country's international position are subject to more or less open debate...
Between Inner Balance and International Standings: Whither Independence for South Soudan?
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Enver HOXHAJ, Ministre des Affaires Etrangères de la République du Kosovo: State-Building process in Kosovo
Conférence présidée par Dominique David, directeur exécutif, Ifri
Cette conférence s'inscrit dans le cadre des activités du Centre franco-autrichien pour le rapprochement en Europe (CFA).