Institut français des relations internationales

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L'Institut français des relations international (abbreviated " IFRI ," French Institute for International Relations) is the largest French independent discussion and research for foreign policy and international issues.

2011 IFRI was honored for the fourth consecutive year, the only French research institute, which is classified among the top fifty worldwide (except USA) influential think - tanks, and as the third in the whole of Europe, according to the latest "Global Go-To Think Tanks " - study by the University of Pennsylvania, which deals with 6,480 residents in 169 countries institutions.

IFRI, the first French think tank is based on the Anglo-Saxon model think tank and is designed to be permanent since it was founded by Thierry de Montbrial in 1979. IFRI is an integral part of the network of the largest international think tanks and has to assemble the goal of actors and analysts of the international scene and think thoroughly and openly about today's controversies.

So IFRI seeks:

• To develop research in the field of public policies at the international level;
• To promote communication and constructive interaction between researchers, practitioners and thought leaders.

IFRI is independent of state control and is attached to no political party. IFRI measure of his political and intellectual independence is of great importance, so it opted for a diversification of its sources of public and private funding. With a budget of 6.5 million euros and about 70 % from private sources IFRI could remain faithful to his independence and his task in spite of the limitations of the global economic crisis.

The Institute includes about sixty persons, among whom thirty French and foreign researchers are gathered. About half of it consists of people under forty. The research centers are organized ( security and strategic issues, energy, space, international economic, health and environmental issues) geographically ( Europe, Russia, the New Independent States, Asia, Middle East, Africa, USA) and thematically.

In addition to his research projects gathered IFRI each year world-renowned speakers that convey great and valuable key to understanding the international issues in an informal and impartial manner. The Institute organizes conferences about forty per year in Paris ( forty-two in 2011 ). So IFRI annually receives more than 10,000 participants to its events.

Among the guests of recent years can be found in particular Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitry Medvedev, Hu Jintao, Jalal Talabani, Hamid Karzai, Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Saakashvili, Abdoulaye Wade, Václav Klaus, Pervez Musharraf, Abdullah Gul, Boris Tadić, Viktor Yanukovych, Paul Kagame Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, etc.

History

In 1973, Thierry de Montbrial by the French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert charged with the Quai d' Orsay, the Centre d'analyze et de prévision (abbreviated "CAP ", forecasting and analysis center ) to set up to promote the analysis of international relations. This experience strengthened his desire to develop an independent research center to do so. IFRI was founded in 1979 by Thierry de Montbrial with the help of the then Prime Minister Raymond Barre and the Foreign Minister Louis de Guiringaud and Jean François -Poncet. Marc Gilbert, a former producer for the former French public broadcaster ORTF, was appointed as Secretary General. The structure Ifris based on the model of the Centre d' études de politique étrangère (abbreviated " CEPE ", Foreign Policy Studies Centre ), which was founded in 1935 by French universities and the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace.

Today IFRI has about 80 partner companies and about 400 members ( private and institution customers). IFRI is now located by its furnished office in March 2005, " IFRI Brussels " in Brussels.

Partnerships and broadcast abroad

IFRI works in partnership with its international homologues: the RAND Corporation, the Brookings Institution, the Council on foreign relations, the Center for Strategic and International Studies ( CSIS), the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace, the Japan Institute for international affairs ( JIIA ) the Institut d' Etat, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations ( MGIMO ), the French - Korean Foundation, the German Council on Foreign relations (DGAP ), etc.

IFRI is striving to be the main French Institute in Europe. The European dimension is thus the center of every activity of the institute. IFRI is represented by that established in March 2005 the Office " IFRI Brussels " in Brussels, which is considered an active interface between Paris and Brussels. Its mission is to enrich a much -thematic approach, each dimension of international relations the European debate.

IFRI Brussels organizes about thirty events each year and has 2011 on the following topics concerned: global economic policy; European Neighbourhood Policy; the first steps of the European External Action Service; NATO, Russia, and Afghanistan; non-literate people in Europe; the European energy and environmental policy; Space security in Europe; security in the Sahel.

Tasks

The policy-oriented research Ifris has the task to clarify the major international events and place them in view. It aims first at the political and economic leaders, the academic Umfelde, opinion leaders and representatives of civil societies.

To carry out this project, the tasks are divided into three research centers, geographically (Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East and Maghreb, contemporary Turkey, USA, Russia and the New Independent States, German - French relations, etc.) or topic (globalization and global economic, security and strategic issues, migration and identity issues, geopolitics of energy, climate, etc. are organized ). Each Centre published its electronic publishing on the IFRI site.

Today IFRI gathers some thirty salaried French and foreign researchers divided the geographic or thematic issues devoted to research units in 15.

Publications

The quarterly publication Politique étrangère and the collective once annually published work Ramsès are the two main publishing activities Ifris. Since 1981, the annual report Ramsès (circulation: 10,000 copies) is devoted to the major global trends. The Politique founded in 1936 étrangère that offers a thematic presentation of international news, is the oldest magazine of this specialty in France. A special edition was released in 2006 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the magazine.

Apart from these two references IFRI offers shorter or more specialized publications, among which Les Notes de l' IFRI and Les Etudes de l' IFRI, the short -format publication Actuelles de l' IFRI, as well as the electronic publication Ifris ( about 10) and the researcher works. IFRI spreading its analysis in multiple languages. In 2011, 12 works were translated 4 of them, as well as 130 digital notepad, of which 50% in foreign languages ​​(English, German and Russian) are published.

Financing

In 2011, the budget Ifris amounts to approximately EUR 6.5 million.

IFRI is a nonprofit organization whose funding sources are diverse: government grants or contracts, private subsidies, support from private clients or companies. The membership list is in the " Partenaires de l' IFRI " on the website.