Author: Michel Duclos
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2025: Seven Strategic Challenges for France
Author Special Advisor and Resident Senior Fellow – Geopolitics and Diplomacy Salle des fêtes de l’Elysée, January 6, 2025: while waiting for President Macron to deliver his speech at the annual ambassadors’ conference, a group of colleagues are exchanging thoughts. “It’s in the last four or five years”, one of them sums up, “that the…
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[Middle Powers] – Definition’s Way
Author Special Advisor and Resident Senior Fellow – Geopolitics and Diplomacy In this second installment of our summer series “In Search of Middle Powers,” Michel Duclos sets out to draw up a list of criteria for recognizing the middle powers, taking historical developments into account. What are the relevant demographic and economic indicators? Geopolitical weight?…
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[Middle Powers] – In the Shadow of Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan
Author Special Advisor and Resident Senior Fellow – Geopolitics and Diplomacy Looks at Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan and asks: To what extent could Riyadh and Astana join a diplomatic initiative bringing together the middle powers to contribute to a more stable and secure international order? Faced with countries that appear self-centered or caught between over-vigilant…