Publications
385 published articles
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North AmericaCanada: A Quiet Power at the Heart of Global Transformations
Canada is often perceived as a stable and prosperous country, relatively distant from the major tensions shaping international affairs. Yet this image conceals a more complex reality. Through its geography, natural resources, economic weight, proximity to the United States and di
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EuropeEurope: Power Without Sovereignty
Economic weight, regulatory power and diplomatic influence make Europe a major global actor. Yet political fragmentation limits its capacity for strategic action.
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Reports and StudiesSocial Cleavages and Public Policy: Instrumentalization or Equity?
Social inequalities are generally presented as dysfunctions that public policy should correct. Disparities in income, wealth, access to education, healthcare, housing and employment are regarded as imbalances capable of undermining national cohesion and equality of opportunity. This interpretation is necessary, but it remains incomplete.
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AfricaSouthern Africa: Africa’s Industrial Core Between Mineral Wealth, Economic Integration and Structural Challenges
Southern Africa occupies a distinctive position in the economic geography of the African continent.
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AfricaCentral Africa: A Strategic Region at the Heart of Global Resource Competition
L’Afrique centrale occupe une position paradoxale dans l’économie mondiale. Elle possède certaines des ressources minérales les plus recherchées par les industries contemporaines, abrite le deuxième grand massif de forêt tropicale de la planète, dispose d’un potentiel hydroélectrique considérable et contrôle des territoires situés au croisement de plusieurs espaces économiques africains.
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Reports and StudiesEducation in a World of Work That Never Stops Changing
For a long time, the contract seemed relatively simple. People studied for fifteen or twenty years, learned a profession, and then relied on much of that knowledge for several decades.
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Latin AmericaJavier Milei and Argentina: A Political and Economic Laboratory of the 21st Century
Since his election in November 2023, Javier Milei has become one of the world's most closely watched political leaders. An economist by training, media personality, and outspoken advocate of a minimal state and free-market principles, Milei campaigned as the complete opposite of
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EconomicsCapitalism: The Crisis of Performance Metrics
Is capitalism experiencing an existential crisis, or is it simply reaching the limits of the mechanisms that have sustained its expansion? The distinction is fundamental.
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Reports and StudiesAI: The New Economy of Power
Artificial intelligence is becoming more than a technology: it is reshaping the distribution of capital, knowledge and strategic influence. A new economy of power is emerging, built on data and computing capacity.
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Reports and StudiesMajor Contemporary Conflicts
The proliferation of armed conflicts represents one of the most profound transformations of the contemporary international system. From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa, from the Great Lakes region to South Asia, confrontations are becoming prolonged, overlapping, and increasingly involve a wide range of state and non-state actors.
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Reports and StudiesCompetition: A Driver of Progress and a Source of Strategic Tension
Competition is often described as a race. Individuals compete for jobs, companies for customers, and states for investment, technologies and resources. The strongest performers advance, the less efficient adapt or disappear, and innovation, productivity and growth are expected to emerge from this process of selection.
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AfricaWest Africa: Economic Power, Security Challenges and Geopolitical Realignment
West Africa occupies a distinctive position in the restructuring of global economic and geopolitical balances.