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Analyses / Observatoire géopolitique du numérique et des technologies émergentes

23 September 2026

The Geoeconomics of AI Scares

Rémi Bourgeot

Associate Research Fellow, IRIS

Interviews / Middle East / North Africa

21 September 2026

A New Chapter in the War in Yemen

Didier Billion

Scientific Adviser at IRIS, Head of the Middle East/North Africa Programme

Infographic of the month

Mapping Ideological Tendencies Within the Republican Party

Far from forming a homogeneous bloc, these ideological movements are characterised by the intertwining of four schools of thought whose boundaries – both blurred and fluid – are constantly being redefined within the Republican Party: neo-reaction, authoritarian libertarianism, post-liberalism and Christian conservatism.

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Mapping Ideological Tendencies Within the Republican Party

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Notes / ARES Group - The Armament Industry European Research Group

13 October 2026

The EU and the Internal Defence Market: What Are the National Perspectives?

Félix Arteaga

Senior Fellow, Elcano Royal Institute

Samuel B. H. Faure

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM)

Calle Håkansson

Head of the Programme for European and Global Politics, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), and Researcher, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

Alessandro Marrone

Head of «Defence Security and Space» Program, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

Łukasz Maślanka

Senior Fellow, Security and Defence Department, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

Christine Nissen

Chief analyst, Think Tank Europa

Andrea Rotter

Head of Division Foreign and Security Policy, Hanns Seidel Foundation

Federico Santopinto

Senior Research Fellow at IRIS, Head of the Europe, EU, NATO Programme on EU/NATO issues

Prof. Margarita Šešelgytė

Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University

Auke P. Venema

Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael

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