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Luncheon Debatte dedicated to Ifri's corporate members, by invitation only.
With Étienne de DURAND, Researcher and Director of the Security Studies Center, Ifri.
The success, and even the future, of the engagement of the Alliance in Afghanistan are incertain. Étienne de Durand, Director of the Security Studies Center, will try to take stock of this engagement, in Afghanistan or even in Libya, and will examnie the implications of these interventions for the European and transatlantic relations.
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