ANNUAL REPORT 2014 INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DES RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES THE FRENCH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Annual Report 2014 – 1 CONTENTS IFRI, THE LEADING FRENCH THINK TANK ON INTERNATIONAL QUESTIONS 3 IFRI’S HONORED GUESTS IN 2014 4 PUBLICATIONS 6 CORPORATE MEMBERS AND PARTNERS 7 IFRI AND THE MEDIA: A RICH, ONGOING DIALOGUE 10 WORLD POLICY CONFERENCE: SEVENTH EDITION 11 THE TEAM 12 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND ADVISORY BOARD 13 RESEARCH 14 REGIONAL PROGRAMS 16 CROSSCUTTING PROGRAMS 39 PUBLICATIONS 47 CONFERENCES AND DEBATES 52 FINANCIAL APPENDIX 54 Annual Report 2014 – 2 IFRI, THE LEADING FRENCH THINK TANK ON INTERNATIONAL QUESTIONS TH TH IN 2014, IFRI WAS RANKED 20 AMONG THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL THINK TANKS IN THE WORLD, AND THE 4 MOST INFLUENTIAL IN WESTERN EUROPE, BY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA’S 2014 GLOBAL THINK TANK REPORT. THE REPORT LOOKS AT 6,681 THINK TANKS FROM 182 COUNTRIES. Founded in 1979 on the model of Anglo-Saxon think tanks, Ifri is the principal institution for independent research and debate in France that is dedicated to the analysis of international questions and global governance. Ifri’s policy-oriented research strives to illuminate international events and put them into perspective. It is primarily useful for political and economic decision-makers as well as academics, opinion leaders, and civil society representatives. Ifri’s research interacts with issues within four major spheres: politics, business, academics, and the media. ANALYSIS AND FORESIGHT Ifri’s research and debates center mainly on analysis and forecasting, with respect to European and international affairs, and employ a multidisciplinary approach that takes local, national and global perspectives into consideration. Ifri is composed of more than 30 researchers (French and foreign) from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, who make up 12 research units based on: • regional subjects: EUROPE, RUSSIA/NIS, ASIA, UNITED STATES, NORTH AFRICA, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, TURKEY, AND THE MIDDLE EAST • and crosscutting subjects: SECURITY AND STRATEGIC AFFAIRS, ENERGY, SPACE, MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP. Ifri publishes its analyses in French, English, German and Russian. STRUCTURING AND INFORMING THE DEBATE Ifri’s research is complemented by informal and non-partisan debates that facilitate the bringing-together of experts and decision-makers, private and public alike. In 2014, Ifri organized more than 100 conferences and debates in Paris and abroad, some 20 large international events, as well as numerous workshops and seminars. At its events, Ifri hosted more than 120 high- level guests, among them heads of state and government officials, and a total of approximately 8,000 event participants. IFRI BRUSSELS, A FOCUS ON EUROPE Through its office in Brussels – open since March 2005 – Ifri maintains an active interface between Paris and the capital of the EU. Its mission is to enrich European debate through its multidisciplinary approach, covering all dimensions of international relations. The Think Tank Dialogue, started in 2010 by Ifri Brussels and Bertelsmann Stiftung, annually brings together Brussels’s 10 most prestigious think tanks. Their fifth meeting, “The EU’s New Leaders: Key Post-Election Challenges”, was held in Brussels in January 2014. Annual Report 2014 – 3 IFRI’S HONORED GUESTS IN 2014 José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, Thierry de Montbrial, Ifri Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of the Republic of Turkey Milos Zeman, President of the Czech Republic, Jean-David Levitte, Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution, Member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania Council of the United States Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Republic of the Richard Fisher, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Philippines. Elisabeth Guigou, Chair, National Assembly foreign affairs José-Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. committee. Jörn Bousselmi, General Manager, German-French Chamber of Ulf Hammarström, Director-General, Swedish Defense and Industry and Commerce. Security Export Agency. Christian de Boissieu, Economist, Member of the Collège de Viorel Isticioaia Budura, Director, Asia-Pacific, European l’Autorité des marchés financiers. Exterior Action Service (EEAS). Gordon de Brouwer, Secretary, Department of the Environment, Ronja Kempin, Head of Research Division, EU External Relations, Australia. SWP. Gilles Carrez, Chair, National Assembly finance committee. Ranko Krivokapic, Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro. Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Senator, former Minister. Mario Monti, former Prime Minister of Italy. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of the Republic of Turkey. Annual Report 2014 – 4 Pierre Moscovici, former Minister, on mission to assess the contribution of EU policies to growth and employment. Ewald Novodny, President, National Bank of Austria. Jean Pisani-Ferry, Commissioner General for Policy Planning, France. Edi Rama, Prime Minister, Albania. Bertrand Ract-Madoux, Army Chief of Staff. Marcus Rantala, Secretary of State, Ministry of Defense, Finland. Richard Roithner, Director, Satcom, Euroconsult. Michel de Rosen, Chairman and CEO, Eutelsat. Gilbert Saboya Sunyé, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Principality of Andorra. Keisuke Sadamori, Director, Energy Markets and Security, International Energy Agency. Thierry de Montbrial, Ifri, Mario Monti, former Prime Minister of Italy Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Republic of the Philippines Pierre Moscovici, former Minister, Christian de Boissieu, Economist, Member of the Collège de l’Autorité des marchés financiers Mohammad Sarwar, Governor of Punjab, former Member of Parliament, UK. Karima Souid (Al Massar), Member of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly, Tunisia. Ana Trišić-Babić, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo. Maria van der Hoeven, Executive Director, International Energy Agency. Hyun-seok Yu, President, The Korea Foundation. Milos Zeman, President of the Czech Republic. Annual Report 2014 – 5 PUBLICATIONS ALMOST ALL OF IFRI’S RESEARCH IS FREELY ACCESSIBLE ONLINE. • E-NOTES: policy-oriented articles that address issues from all Ifri’s programs or centers; they are distributed in Ifri’s “E-notes” (digital collection) a targeted way so as to reach a Broken up into diverse thematic collections and overseen by Ifri’s researchers, the E- specialist readership. notes present policy-oriented analyses by French and international experts. Applying targeted expertise to current events, they provide summaries of debates and suggest • ÉTUDES DE L’IFRI: longer texts possibilities for action. that contribute to academic research on international Within this framework, Ifri publishes thematic collections: Asie.Visions, Notes du relations. Cerfa, Visions franco-allemandes, Notes franco-turques, Potomac Papers, Russie.NEI.Visions, Focus stratégique, Proliferation Papers, and collections from the • SÉMINAIRES: summaries of Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Space, and Energy programs as well as the Centre Ifri’s events. for Migrations and Citizenship. • ACTUELLES DE L’IFRI: concise In 2014, Ifri’s experts published more than 70 online reports (policy papers) and 150 and timely analyses of current articles and contributions. international events. Ifri distributes its publications in French, English, German, and Russian. TWO FLAGSHIP PUBLICATIONS POLITIQUE ÉTRANGÈRE Editor-in-Chief: Dominique David and Marc Hecker A space for deep analysis and debate, Ifri’s quarterly journal Politique étrangère provides a guide for decoding international events. Articles, current event-related debates, and relevant historical analyses can be found at politique-etrangere.com. In 2014, the four issues included reports, articles and analysis of current international issues. Among them was a special issue, 1914-2014: The Great War and the world of tomorrow (no 1/2014), as well as Ukraine: first lessons (no 2/2014), China: a new diplomacy? (no 3/2014), Internet: incomplete governance (no 4/2013). RAMSES 2015: LE DÉFI DES ÉMERGENTS Co-Directors: Thierry de Montbrial and Philippe Moreau Defarges Annual Global Report on the Economic System and Strategies This annual reference book, which comes out every September, offers indispensable tools for elucidating global developments. Thierry de Montbrial’s introductory “Perspectives” presents an original synthesis of the trends of the past year, covering the entire field of international relations, with particular emphasis on the emergence of a global civil society. This is followed by three thematic sections: Emergence and the Redistribution of the Global Balance of Power; Challenges of a Shifting Landscape: Emerging Countries and Established Powers; Regional and Global Issues; and finally, the “Barometer”, which offers a vast documentary resource: chronology, statistics, original maps created for RAMSES, and a detailed index. Annual Report 2014 – 6 CORPORATE MEMBERS AND PARTNERS IFRI OFFERS ITS PARTNERS RICH AND UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES TO NETWORK AND SHARE ANALYSIS Ifri brings together decision-makers, experts, researchers, AS AN INSTITUTION RECOGNIZED FOR ITS PUBLIC UTILITY, IFRI IS journalists and civil-society representatives to share FINANCED BY PRIVATE CONTRIBUTIONS – COMPANIES, information and shed light on international issues. The EMBASSIES, ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS – support for this diverse system comes from independent REPRESENTING MORE THAN 70% OF ITS RESOURCES, AND IS financing on the part of businesses and a