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In our previous articles, we discussed how Europe fell short compared to other countries when it comes to digital technologies, as well as the industrial and geopolitical risks resulting from it. We identified a structural and uncommon cause for this gap, the cost of failure specific to Europe,...

Security Collapse in Mali and Burkina Faso: What Implications? - Anticipating the Crisis Through the Eyes of Jihadists

11 January 2023 | Jonathan Guiffard

This analysis is an exercise in prospective thinking on the possible evolution of the situation in the Sahel and its spillover into the rest of West Africa through the eyes of an imagined Al Qaeda jihadist in the Sahel. Its purpose is to allow the reader to consider the strategy and objectives of...

Gender Inequalities in the Health Sector: Links with Socioeconomic Determinants

Interview with Nathalie Bajos

22 November 2022 | Nathalie Bajos

The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies several socio-economic factors as determinants of one’s health: salary, unemployment and education are some examples. Today, many studies look at the differences in health conditions as a result of such factors. According to Nathalie Bajos,...

Russia's Bid to Provide Security in Africa: An Illusory Solution

22 September 2022 | Jonathan Guiffard

A tantalizing offer As soon as Russian military forces set foot in Syria to join the civil war in September 2015, a "new" narrative started to circulate, spreading the idea that Russia was now in a position to offer robust, direct and non-Western security assistance to countries and actors in...

Seeing Double: Reflections on France

11 August 2022 | Blanche Leridon

Are political duos an effective alternative to the solitary and centralized exercise of power? This question is at the heart of our Seeing Double series published in the past month. Our six portraits of political duos are all illustrations of the delicate, sometimes unnatural, act of sharing or...

Back to the Future? NATO after Madrid

7 July 2022 | Bruno Tertrais

This time around the electric shock hit hard. Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea proved insufficient to reenergize the transatlantic alliance still heavily engaged in Afghanistan. Six years later, the violence of Russia’s aggression right when “Atlanticists” are back in the White House and...

Human Life Before Economic Growth: The Case for China’s Lockdowns

9 May 2022 | François Godement

Judgments on China’s governance and political economy almost always fall into two opposite viewpoints. Intriguingly, these views are often entertained simultaneously, from different sets of facts, or even from contrasting interpretations of the same facts. Occasionally, the needle moves...

Financing Defense: A Testing Ground for Greater European Sovereignty

20 April 2022 | Nicolas Baverez

The past decade has witnessed a significant evolution of the European security environment. The emergence of new challenges represent opportunities to revive the Union’s strategic autonomy. In this three-part series, Financing Defense in the 21st Century, Nicolas Baverez examines the importance...

What a Marine Le Pen Victory Would Mean for Europe

13 April 2022 | Georgina Wright

The results are out: incumbent Emmanuel Macron will face far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round on 24 April after securing 27,84% and 23,15% respectively. Polls are predicting a narrow victory for Macron, but the race will be tight - and a Le Pen victory should not be...

The Defense Industry: an Unintended Victim of Financial Regulation

12 April 2022 | Nicolas Baverez

If the Russian invasion of Ukraine has taught us one thing, it’s that Europe’s security environment has changed profoundly. In a time when the EU’s ability to achieve strategic autonomy is anything but certain, this three-part series, Financing Defense in the 21st Century, examines the...

France’s Presidential Elections Under Europe’s Eye: A Race Already Won

5 April 2022 | Blanche Leridon

In April 2017, all of Europe had its eyes glued to the French presidential election. With 2016 bearing witness to the Brexit referendum in the UK as well as Trump’s victory in the United States, the rise of populism seemed inevitable. Was its next stop going to be France, with a win for National...

Failed Drug Policies Call for a Paradigm Shift

Three questions to Ruth Dreifuss

9 December 2021 | Ruth Dreifuss

Drug legalization is a divisive issue. Some doubt the effectiveness of tougher penalties to deter both suppliers and consumers, while others argue the answer lies in more sanctions. Additionally, relocating crack users and opening low-risk consumption centers in cities exacerbates tensions between...

Zemmour: The Embodiment of Fear

15 November 2021 | Dominique Moïsi

Despite falling numbers in recent days, Eric Zemmour’s rise in the polls for the French presidential elections is a source of concern for our European neighbors, explains Dominique Moïsi. It lays open the multiple fractures in French society, caused by an extreme polarization that has little to...

Squid Game: A Grim Reflection?

12 November 2021 | Dominique Moïsi

"Red Light, Green Light". Ever since I watched the South Korean show, the most popular in Netflix history, I can no longer play with my granddaughters the way I used to. The deliberate mix of competition for survival and children's games is frighteningly effective - some would say terrifyingly...

Content Regulation: We Need Better, Not More, Transparency

4 November 2021 | Théophile Lenoir

Over the past weeks, Facebook (which has now decided to go by Meta) has once again faced intense criticism. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, leaked documents that show how the company failed to act on some of the harms caused by its services, despite internal research identifying the...

After AUKUS: How Could France Reboot Its Indo-Pacific Strategy?

4 October 2021 | Bruno Tertrais | Michel Duclos

The September 15 earthquake is still producing aftershocks. The battle of "narratives" is raging. The French ambassador to Australia has not returned to Canberra. Nothing will ever be the same again. President Macron said that the affair "does not change France's Indo-Pacific strategy in...

AUKUS, a Golden Opportunity for “Global Britain”?

23 September 2021 | Georgina Wright

The Australia-UK-US pacific security pact - AUKUS - has been greeted with anger across France. France’s reaction is both due to Australia’s decision to cancel a five-year old contract with France to build diesel-power submarines and because it officially found out about AUKUS a couple of hours...

France, America and the Indo-Pacific after AUKUS

20 September 2021 | Bruno Tertrais

A "stab in the back" France was violently shaken on Thursday, September 15, as it heard about the new US-Australia strategic partnership trampling over the relation that Paris and Canberra had been patiently building up over the past decade. It was common knowledge that the French submarine...

The Fall of Kabul and the Weight of Western Defeat

24 August 2021 | Michel Duclos

Looking at the images coming out of Kabul, it is easy to draw a parallel between what has just happened in Afghanistan and the fall of Saigon in 1975. The same helicopters are hovering over American embassies, the same scenes of chaos are unfolding, former local friends are facing the same...

Russia’s National Security Strategy 2021: the Era of "Information Confrontation"

2 August 2021 | Michel Duclos

On July 2, President Vladimir Putin signed a new national security strategy to replace the version that had been in effect since 2015. In this document, experts have noted the influence exerted by Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, and one of the leading figures in the Putin...

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