Sustainable Cities for a Billion: China's Daunting Challenges in Urbanization
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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 Social mutations and land settlement in China. It will be chaired by Valérie Niquet, director of the Centre Asie, Ifri (seminar in english).
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Georgia's Authoritarian Turn and Its Foreign Policy Implications
The Georgian state is currently undergoing a critical phase of democratic decline, marked by the domination of the Georgian Dream party and an authoritarian drift that is disrupting its political institutions.
The New Nuclear Instabilities on the Korean Peninsula
From the growing size and diversification of the North Korean nuclear arsenal, and an open rhetoric in favor of nuclear proliferation in the South because of the loss of credibility of U.S. extended deterrence, the Peninsula is facing raising nuclear tensions.