Les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 ont brutalement posé la question des libertés politiques dans le monde arabe. Ces pays musulmans ne seraient-ils que des 'démocraties sans démocrates' ? La frustration de populations réprimées serait-elle une cause de la 'violence islamiste' ?
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Since the late 1980s a number of regional developments have impacted upon South Korea's political and economic standing in Asia. China's spectacular growth and closer integration with its neighbouring economies, along with a tendency toward more assertive political and...
The author focuses on the increasing interest of Germany for the African continent since 2000. A German pragmatic policy, initiated by the United Nations and encouraged by the improvement of the African economic structures, succeeds to a political disinterest after the Cold War. Then, J....
Energy issues lie at the heart of Ukraine's economic, political and strategic challenges. A year after the 'orange revolution', the 'gas war' served to highlight the country's vulnerable position, being 80% dependent on imports of gas and having the world's most energy-hungry economy. The 2005...
Until recently, the only formal body of regional integration in East Asia was the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which had been established in 1967, primarily for political reasons and with modest economic ambitions. As a result, East Asia has long been said to be the champion...
In March 2000, the EU Member States decided to make Europe the 'economy the most competitive and dynamic in the world' from here 2010. Considering a structural delay of growth, the 'Lisbon strategy' has a global approach of policies of reform. Despite a revision of the strategy in 2005, it is...
On the eve of the presidential elections, a reflexion group has gathered researchers and diplomates who have been involved for many years in the relationship between France and North African/Middle Eastern countries. The conclusion of their workshop has been formally released in the 'Avicenne...
Les Mensuelles Ifri / Entreprises, a lunch debate to the exclusive attention of Ifri's Corporate members.
...The world economy is in upheaval and no one can escape. After more than a decade which celebrated the virtues and success of globalization, the crisis which opened in 2007 has brought much into question The world tends to become multipolar ; each region must redefine its international...
On the occasion of Barack Obama's Nobel Peace prize-giving ceremony
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Meeting with Hyung-Gon Jeong, Economist, Specialist of the DPRK economy with the Korea Institute of International Economic Policy (KIEP, Séoul). The seminar is chaired by Françoise Nicolas, Economist, Ifri.<...>
Seminar with P. R. Kumaraswamy, Professor at the Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Chair : Gilles Boquerat, senior research fellow and head of...
This discussion seminar will be introduced by QI Ye, professor and director of the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing. The seminar is part of Ifri's China Project research program for 2009 on
Lunch debate introduced by Andri Veselovsky, Ambassador and Head of the Mission of Ukraine to the EU. The debate is chaired by Susanne Nies, Head, Ifri Brussels and forms part of the series "Ifri's Tuesdays in Brussels".
Conference-debate with Grigol Vashadze, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia
Chairman: Thomas Gomart
Lunch debate introduced in French by Valérie Niquet, Director Centre Asie Ifri and Senior Research Fellow. Debate chaired by Maïté Jauréguy-Naudin, Project Manager and research Fellow of the Ifri Energy program, and forms part of the series "Ifri's Tuesdays in Brussels".
This will be the fifth seminar co-hosted by Faf and IFRI. The debate will take place in English and we will be joined by Gouverneur Howard H. Dean.
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