National Strategic Review
Drawn up with a view to the next military programming law, the National Strategic Review presents France's defence and security environment and identifies the main challenges in this area up to 2030. It reaffirms the assumptions set out in the previous edition of the document and expands the list of strategic functions, now [...].
France 2030: an economic response to the challenges of tomorrow
In this summary and educational document, the DGE presents the France 2030 plan, launched a year ago, placing it in the more general context of the evolution of industrial strategies at national and European level. The authors focus more specifically on four issues covered by the plan: hydrogen, health, recycling and the environment.
The articles
Military stocks: high-intensity life insurance? 6 January 2023 The war in Ukraine has highlighted the importance of military stocks. Against this backdrop, the study traces the stockpile policies for weapons and vehicles of the major world and European powers. The document pays particular attention to the situation [...].
Podcasts
NATO Colloquium: Perceptions of the Strategic Landscape and Technological Implications 30 November 2022 https://youtu.be/0WvbTcupalE NATO Colloquium: Perceptions of the Strategic Landscape and Technological Implications", IRSEM and NATO Defense College, 18 November 2022. Read more ► Submarine cables: indispensable, invisible... vulnerable? 30 November 2022 Echo with Camille MOREL, PhD in public law, Centre for Strategic Studies [...]
Focus on the war in Ukraine
The long war in Ukraine 12 December 2022 In this article, Jean-Marie Guéhenno explains that the war in Ukraine heralds a new era in the history of conflict. He presents it as both a total war (for Ukraine) and a limited war (for the Western countries and Russia). He identifies, as of... Read more ► War [...]
Institutional documents
Integrated Review Refresh 2023. Responding to a more contested and volatile world Following on from the Integrated Review of 2021, which the war in Ukraine has prompted to be updated, the UK Government presents its updated vision of priorities for security, defence, development and foreign policy. UK Government, March 2023. [...]
Le 133e cycles jeunes Île-de-France
Le 133e cycle jeunes Ile-de-France, organised by the IHEDN, takes place from 28 November to 3 December 2022 in Rambouillet, in a boarding school at the Bergerie nationale.
The 229e session in the Occitanie region
To mark the opening of the 229e session in the Occitanie region on 15 November 2022, Mr Michaël Delafosse, Mayor and President of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, represented by Mr Sébastien Cote, Deputy for Security and Military Affairs, warmly welcomed the 47 auditors to Montpellier City Hall. Prefect Didier Conus, Deputy Director of the IHEDN, then gave the opening address before handing over to Brigadier General Cyrille Youchtchenko, Deputy General of the Southern Defence and Security Zone, representing Lieutenant General Pascal Facon, OGZDS.
Russia's return to Africa: a threat to French influence on the continent?
The analysis retraces the evolution of Russia's presence in Africa from the end of the Cold War to the present day and looks at how France is reacting to the return of competition between powers and its direct consequences on the African continent.
Africa has long been linked to France, and has been the scene of numerous external operations by the French army in recent decades. It is now at the heart of struggles for influence and the exploitation of strategic resources, sometimes reminiscent of the practices of the Cold War era.
Despite Moscow's return to the continent, Washington is pursuing the pivot policy initiated under the Obama administration and concentrating its efforts in Asia to contain the rise of its rival China. As a result, France finds itself in the front line in the fight against armed terrorist groups and is seeing its influence diminish in the face of Russia's disinformation policies and Russian private military companies, which already have a strong presence in the Central African Republic and Mali.
Ukraine and Russia in the test of war
In this interview, Anna COLIN LEBEDEV, a sociologist of post-Soviet societies, analyses the impact of the war on Ukrainian and Russian societies. The text highlights the complexity of the current situation and the challenges of future recompositions as a result of the many intertwined variables, including collective representations, history and the [...].
