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Le SatCen, carrefour européen du renseignement géospatial

SatCen, the European crossroads for geospatial intelligence

Based in Madrid, this little-known institution is the European Union's eye in the sky. On a visit to Paris last week, its director, the Romanian...
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Un média d'influence d'état, un livre de Maxime Audinet | Les débats stratégiques de l'IHEDN

RT, Russian propaganda channel with an elastic line

Maxime Audinet, a researcher at the Strategic Research Institute at the École Militaire, was the guest speaker at the latest IHEDN strategic debate. Using the example of the...
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Visuel de représentatif de la politique européenne de défense

European defence policy: a work in progress

The European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), active since 2007, is the culmination of a much earlier process. Indissociable from NATO,...
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Visuel de l'article, Héloïse FAYET

Héloïse Fayet: "To be effective, the nuclear deterrent must be credible".

The IFRI researcher looks at the concept of nuclear deterrence, the specific nature of France's nuclear deterrent and the possibilities for sharing this protection...
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Visuel qui représente la dissuasion nucléaire

Nuclear deterrence: eight decades of balance

Since its only two military uses in 1945, nuclear weapons have been used without being used: they are a major tool of deterrence. In the almost 80 years of its existence,...
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Iran's non-state partners in the Middle East: proxies, really?

The Lebanese Hezbollah, the Yemeni Houthis, armed Iraqi Shiite factions and even, more singularly, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are often presented...
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