The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is at a crossroads. Over the course of France's EU Presidency the Union of the Mediterranean will be launched and the Polish-Swedish proposal for an "Eastern Partnership" will be elaborated upon. These initiatives challenge the ENP and cast doubt over...
Regions
The CSIS/IFRI joint project seeks to reframe the trilateral relationship for the relevant policymaking communities. We are motivated with the possibility that new opportunities may be emerging with leadership change in Moscow and Washington. In particular, we hope that our analyses and...
This study is part of a series of reports being published by the joint CSIS/IFRI project "Europe, Russia, and the United States: Finding a New Balance," which seeks to reframe the trilateral relationship for the relevant policymaking communities.
...The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a shipper-owned oil pipeline carrying Caspian oil to Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossyisk, remains to this day the only oil export pipeline on Russian territory that is not under the control of the state company Transneft. Completed in 2001, the CPC...
Since 1991 India's economic reform programme has set out to alter the production structure by increasing the role of markets in the economy, directly through privatisation, or by way of reduction in state investments and interventions, and indirectly through domestic deregulation and trade...
Development aid has progressively penetrated the fields of conflicts and "fragility". It tends to become a key component of external interventions, next to military action and diplomacy. As a result, it is subjected to the final goals of those operations which, beyond the end of confrontations...
The Irish “no” to the Treaty of Lisbon starkly brought the issue of relations between European construction and its citizens back to the surface. France, who said “no” to the Constitution, stood a much lower chance of rejecting the Treaty that followed it, since this time around it was...
Report written by Séverine Neervoort, Intern, Ifri Brussels.
NATO after Lisbon
Lunch debate introduced in French by Etienne de Durand, Senior Research fellow, Director of security studies Center, Ifri and Xavier Païtard, Vice amiral d"escadre, Military Representative of France to the EU and NATO.
This debate forms part of the "Ifri...
L'autonomisation du Kurdistan irakien : effet sur les dynamiques régionales
Lunch-debate introduced in French by Dorothée Schmid, Research Fellow, in charge of Turkey program, Ifri.
This debate forms part of the "Ifri's Tuesdays in Brussels".
Participation fees (except members): 10€
Chinese and European Green Growth Strategies
Workshop co-organized by
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Energy and Development
Lunch debate introduced by Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Development, European Commission.
This debate forms part of the "Ifri's Tuesdays in Brussels".
Participation Fee (Except members): 10€
Ideology and Geopolitics: the Triangular Relationship between Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia
This seminar welcomes Dr. Nazir Hussain, Associate Professor of International Relations at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Visiting Fellow in the India and South Asia Program of the Centre Asie, Ifri, and author of numerous articles and books.
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Punching Below Their Weight? Critical Reflections on Anglo-French Cooperation in Africa
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Demography, Migration and European Identity: Challenges for Europe?
Conference organized by the Austro-French Centre (CFA) and IFRI.
With Peter JANKOWITSCH, Secretary General, Austro-French Centre; Dominique DAVID, Executive Director, French...
Fragile States, the ultimate frontier. African cases
Event organised in association with the International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF), OECD.
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Sovereign Debt in the United States and Europe : real issues and false evidence
Second seminar in partnership with FAF (French-American Foundation, France) and IRE (International Initiative for Rethinking the Economy).
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A New Political Season in Washington
As politics resume in Washington, Democrats face a difficult path as they anticipate losses in the upcoming midterm election.Obama's tactical errors and a bad economy only make their situation more dire. The upcoming session won't necessarily be any easier for Republicans who lack...