USA 2020-2024: what foreign policy choices in the context of power competition?

China has exported over a billion masks since the start of the global health crisis (illustrative image).

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By: Marie-France Chatin Follow

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The era that is beginning will be an era of health crises, climatic shocks, cyber attacks and geoeconomic competition between the great powers.

Judging by the pandemic, the US is particularly ill-prepared ... 

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We have seen the dependence of Washington and other capitals of democratic countries on China for both essential and non-essential goods.

Beyond that, the divisions that we are witnessing in the United States make fear a country ultracentre on itself to the detriment of major international issues.

Among them, China today THE great strategic business of the USA.  

Guests:


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Maud Quessard

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university

lecturer and director of the “Euratlantic space” field at IRSEM.

American foreign policy specialist


Pierre Haroche,

 European security researcher at IRSEM


Frédérick Heurtebize

, lecturer in American history and politics.

Associate researcher at Irsem


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Martin Quencez

, researcher and deputy director of the Transatlantic Think Tank German Marshal Fund. 

Edition produced in partnership with IRSEM, the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School around the international conference "AMERICAN STRATEGIC CHALLENGES IN THE ERA OF NEW POWER COMPETITIONS".

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