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Du 20 au 23 février dernier se tenait la 19ème édition du Forum de Bamako, ayant pour thématique “Immigration : quelle dynamique entre l’Europe et l’Afrique ?”. Bruno Tertrais, directeur adjoint de la Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS) et auteur pour l’Institut Montaigne de la note Le défi démographique : mythes…

Venezuelans flee accelerating collapse

Le 18 septembre 2018, le président de la République Emmanuel Macron a présenté les axes forts de la stratégie de réforme de la santé sous le slogan "prendre soin de chacun". Le même jour, la Ministre des Solidarités et de la Santé, Agnès Buzyn, accompagnée de la Ministre de l’…

Une semaine après les frappes aériennes qui ont marqué le point paroxystique des tensions entre l’Inde et le Pakistan, reconstituer l’enchaînement des faits n’est pas chose aisée tant les sources disponibles se contredisent. Tout commence le 14 février dernier lorsqu’un kamikaze de 20 ans, Adil Ahmad Dar, tue 40 soldats indiens à Pulwama (Jammu et Cachemire) en projetant contre leurs véhicules une voiture bourrée d’explosifs. Cet attentat est aussitôt revendiqué…

Stefan Stahlberg 2019-03-06T11:17:00Z

Wachsender Nationalismus, mangelnde Reformbereitschaft und soziale Probleme in EU-Mitgliedstaaten setzen den Rahmen bei der Diskussion, wie es mit der EU weitergeht.

Fernando Eguidazu. ARI 29/2019 - 6/3/2019

¿Cuáles son las perspectivas para la relación entre España y Gibraltar tras el Brexit?

January 2019 marked the eighth anniversary of the end of the Ben Ali dictatorship – the celebrations however were marred by massive social protests. Opinions both in Tunisia and abroad differ about the state of Tunisia’s political development as it gears up for its second parliamentary and presidential elections since the adoption of the new constitution in 2014. While some consider its democratisation to be virtually complete, others fear a relapse into autocracy. Despite its considerable democratic achievements, Tunisia is in danger of developing into a hybrid system: part democratic, part authoritarian. This is not only due to the difficult economic and regional con­text. Critically, the political, economic and administrative networks of the old system, as well as persistent authoritarian practices and “old” rhetoric in politics and society, complicate the deepening of its fragile democracy. Tunisia’s international partners should make it their explicit objective to weaken these counter-currents.

Carmen González Enríquez. ARI 28/2019 - 5/3/2019

Tras unos años de frenada por la crisis económica, la inmigración hacia España vuelve a adquirir una notable intensidad.

Stefan Stahlberg 2019-03-05T08:13:00Z

Tayyip Erdoğan’s management of the religious realm in Turkey relies on three dif­ferent but complementary components: i) using state institutions and resources to define and control the religious discourse and life, ii) incorporating religious com­munities and organisations into the party and state institutions, and iii) forming new religious organisations and communities through family-controlled religious foun­dations (vakıf).

Les étudiants algériens descendent en masse dans la rue à l'approche des élections. Le peuple hésite entre la révolte face à un régime totalement sclérosé et la crainte de revivre la guerre civile des années 1990.

"Ils ont pillé le pays. Ils nous ont méprisés. Ils nous ont bâillonnés. Ils doivent rendre des comptes", clament les étudiants. "Attention au scénario syrien, cela commence avec des roses, cela se…

Obwohl das Treffen zwischen Donald Trump und Kim Jong-Un keine Ergebnisse brachte: zumindest will man weiter miteinander sprechen. Allein dass das als Erfolg interpretiert werden kann zeigt, wie gering die Hoffnungen auf schnelle Lösungen in der Nord-Korea-Frage sind.

Joint research shows how practitioners reshape climate adaptation measures

Die transatlantische Beziehungen sind heute einem Stresstest ausgesetzt, unterschiedliche Weltsichten prallen aufeinander. Donald Trump ist mehr Symptom als Auslöser dieser Entwicklungen. Auch auf der Münchener Sicherheitskonferenz wurde deutlich: Wir brauchen mehr, nicht weniger Dialog und Engagement mit den USA.

 

 

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Some 18 months after 700,000 people fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state, camps in neighboring Bangladesh are now hosting more than one million refugees. Though Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in November 2017 to a procedural framework for repatriation of these refugees—most of them Rohingyas from Rakhine state—the increased instability there has not allowed for safe, dignified, and voluntary returns.

The resulting humanitarian crisis and what to do about it was the subject of an IPI Speaker Series talk on March 1st by Bangladeshi Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque. He opened his remarks by saying that the matter had been badly distorted.

“There has been an attempt to make the whole issue from a humanitarian crisis to a military conflict between Myanmar and Bangladesh,” Mr. Haque said. In fact, he said, “this is between Myanmar and its own nationals, the Rohingyas… it is not an interstate fight, it is an ethnic issue.”

In a briefing to the United Nations Security Council the day before, UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener had reported that the refugees in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh find themselves in “extremely challenging temporary conditions.” And she said they would continue in danger indefinitely in the absence of moves to end violence, improve humanitarian access, probe the causes of the crisis, and promote equitable development.

Mr. Haque said that the displaced people were in deeply deforested areas, with no infrastructure and no market system even to buy necessities. “But one of the most challenging situations that we are confronted with was not with shelter, not with food, but health,” he said. “Health is an area which often creates a crisis within a crisis.”

The World Health Organization aided in getting necessary vaccines after an outbreak of diphtheria, and individual governments and local NGOs were providing health services, he said. His own government tried to help by sending in troops with health supplies, but women ran away, thinking they were Myanmar soldiers, he said. “It took two or three days to make them understand this is not the Myanmar military, they are not going to kill you, but they are going to help you.” Bangladesh subsequently tried to make sure that those providing aid were women, he said.

Mr. Haque listed three necessary steps for improvement – addressing the “root causes” of the conflict, holding perpetrators of atrocity crimes accountable, and ensuring the safety and security of minority communities, especially the Rohingyas. He added that “international pressure on Myanmar is critical.”

He said that all civilians “irrespective of religion and ethnicity must be protected in Myanmar,” and he proposed accordingly that civilian zones with no military presence be established within the country under UN supervision. He also encouraged international organizations and the UN to collect the evidence that would be needed to investigate and prosecute atrocities. “Unless you bring in the whole issue of accountability and justice,” he said, “you cannot permanently resolve this problem, you cannot ensure that next time there won’t be another exodus.”

IPI Vice President Adam Lupel, the moderator of the discussion, concluded the session, saying, “My takeaway is this really is a multi-dimensional, multi-layered, multigenerational crisis… This really is a long-term problem with very urgent short term demands, but a need for a long-term perspective on both the history and the resolution. In some ways, it’s a real good case for what we’re calling in this neighborhood the ‘triple nexus’, a crisis that is both the peace and security, development, and human rights all in one which makes it very complicated but also in some sense maps out what kind of process needs to be engaged for a resolution.”

Nouveaux acteurs "disruptifs", innovations accélérées, baisse drastique des coûts... Mais qu’est-il en train de se passer dans le secteur spatial ? Comment ces nouvelles réalités, regroupées sous l’expression de "New Space", affectent-elles les acteurs traditionnels du secteur ? Et surtout, quel rôle les Etats et leurs agences devraient-ils jouer dans ce nouveau contexte ? Afin d’aborder ces questions fondamentales, l’Institut Montaigne et l’ambassade…

Le RGPD - Règlement Général pour la Protection des Données - n’en finit pas de faire des vagues. Alors qu’il a été longtemps critiqué comme étant un frein à l’innovation, plusieurs entreprises numériques outre-Atlantique se mobilisent afin de pousser à la création d’une régulation fédérale américaine qui en copierait les grands principes, allant ainsi dans le sens d’une protection accrue des données personnelles. Afin de nous éclairer sur ces enjeux, Annie…

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La crise migratoire de 2015 a mis en lumière les insuffisances des outils juridiques européens en matière d’asile et, par extension, en termes…