On an initiative of the German Council of Foreign Relations (DGAP), the Study Committee for Franco-German Relations (Cerfa) of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) and the Polish Institute of International...
A Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement?
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Der 50. Jahrestag des Elysée-Vertrages am 22. Januar 2013 bietet einen geeigneten Anlass, die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen in Europa neu zu vermessen. Die Folgen des Umbruchs von 1989 betrafen nicht nur die globale und die europäische...
Les embouteillages se sont développés rapidement dans les villes africaines et deviennent un problème majeur. Ainsi, en limitant la mobilité des biens et des personnes, ils ralentissent la croissance économique. Leur influence est cependant plus profonde. D"une part, en rendant certaines...
The articles collected in this special issue set out to assess critically both aspects (making and representing the world) of national models from a comparative perspective, bringing together analysis of immigration countries in Europe (in the Netherlands, France and Britain) and settler...
On Tuesday 10 April 2012, Osama bin Laden was finally replaced on the FBI’s most wanted list by a fugitive schoolteacher accused of possessing child pornography. As the United States’ perception of threat has shifted, so too has the broader national security discourse. The prominent al-Qaeda...
More often than not, the notion of a national model of immigrant integration is held to be self-evident in the comparative scholarship. This type of reasoning, however, does not go without serious costs for the social sciences. Among these costs are the danger of reifying the categories used...
The political-strategic objectives of NATO's missile defense seem well-conceptualized by now when it comes to its overall posture, geographical location, and integration within the NATO architecture. The Russian issue remains open to speculation. Today, the crux of the problem is on the...
The political-strategic objectives of NATO's missile defense seem well-conceptualized by now when it comes to its overall posture, geographical location, and integration within the NATO architecture. The Russian issue remains open to speculation. Today, the crux of the problem is on the...
Since the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the old world order, the French have, in their collective consciousness, associated Germany with the question of their own leadership. The awareness that Paris’ political and diplomatic influence on the international stage has been eroding did...
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Colloque de deux jours organisé par l'Institut Français des Relations Internationales et l'Institut du Monde Arabe.
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Seminar with HEM David Mulroney, former Ambassador of Canada to China (2009-2012) and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and Alice Ekman, Associate Research Fellow at the Ifri Center for Asian Studies.
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In the face of endless turmoil in the Middle East, the U.S. leadership seems to waver. Are we witnessing the long-heralded decline of U.S. power and influence, or is the current situation due to the attitude of the President and therefore temporary? What other foreign policy choices could...
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A luncheon debate with Mansouria MOKHEFI, Head of Middle East/North Africa research programme
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The rapid rise of China is changing the balance of power drastically in East Asia. What kind of new regional order will be born? What Role should Japan take in the new environment? Prof. Shinichi Kitaoka, President of International University of Japan, the chairman of Prime Minister Abe"s...
Immigration Reform in the US has emerged as the legislative centerpiece of the 2013 spring Congress, inspiring bipartisan support from key Democratic and Republican senators. Now, however, reform is threatened by new partisan discussions. When the dust settles, what solution can 11 million...
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?"
On June 3, 2014, Laurence Nardon, head of the United States Program at IFRI joined Fabrice Lundy on "Les décodeurs de l'éco."
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?
