| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, March 17, 2017 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place |
Bio: Thomas Gomart founded and was director of the Russia/NIS Centre of Ifri (Institut francais des relations internationals) from 2004 to 2013. He was Vice-President for Strategic Development of Ifri from September 2010 to March 2015, and was appointed Director of Ifri in April 2015. His academic and professional background has been closely related to post-Soviet space, as Lavoisier Fellow at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (2001), Visiting Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies (2003) and Marie Curie Fellow at Department of War Studies at King’s College (2003-2004). He holds a PHD in History (Paris I – Panthéon La Sorbonne) and an EMBA from HEC Paris.
Description: The year 2014 was defined by the conflict in Ukraine, the emergence of Daesh, and tensions between China and Japan. The next year witnessed the spread of Daesh, the conflict in Yemen, the Greek crisis, revelations about the activity of the National Security Agency (NSA), the migrant crisis, and a ramping-up of terrorist attacks. This proliferation of crises has contributed to a “return” of geopolitics, or, in other words, to power rivalries that may sound the death-knell for the kind of globalization that ignores territorial boundaries.
The presentation focuses on China, Russia and the United States, which together form a strategic triangle of systemic importance for the global world order.
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