Prénom de l'expert

Laurence

Nom de l'expert

NARDON

Research Fellow, Head of the Americas Program, Ifri

Research Areas:

History of Political Ideologies in the United States
U.S. Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations
U.S Trade Policy Evolutions and Relations with China

Americas Program

Dr. Laurence Nardon heads the Ifri Americas Program. She edits and contributes to its collections of online research papers, such as the U.S.-focused Potomac Papers. Laurence is a member of the editorial board of the reviews "Politique étrangère", "Questions Internationales" and "The Washington Quarterly". She published "L'Amérique de Trump en 100 questions" with Tallandier in 2018. Since June 2019, she has been analyzing the issues of American politics every week in the podcast “New Deal” (formerly “Trump 2020”), produced in partnership with Slate.fr and the Time to Sign Off (TTSO) newsletter. Episodes are posted online on Wednesdays.

She also teaches a class on Civil Society in the United States at Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and is a columnist for the weekly paper "Réforme".

Prior to joining Ifri, she was a research fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), then a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, from 2001 to 2003.

Laurence Nardon holds a Ph.D. in political science from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She studied at the University of Kent at Canterbury after graduating from Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. In the Fall of 2000, she was a Fulbright Scholar at The George Washington University in D.C.

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Analysis from Laurence NARDON

Publications

Editorials

GMES, the Second Flagship

06 March 2011

The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Program is often overshadowed by what is perceived to be the flagship program of European space, Galileo. As a matter of fact, GMES is just as important and faces many similar challenges.

Christophe VENET Laurence NARDON

Editorials

Galileo, the Long Road to European Autonomy

21 December 2010

Galileo is one of the most ambitious programs ever managed by the EU. As such, it illustrates the challenges and the opportunities offered by the development of a European Space Policy at the political, industrial, economic and international level.

Christophe VENET Laurence NARDON

Editorials

The Evolving Architecture of Space and Security

17 November 2010

Today, Europe is taking initiatives both to prevent space weaponization and to develop space militarization. While national States remain the central players in this regard, the intergovernmental European Space Agency is increasingly involved in security-related activities and the European Union is showing growing political ambitions in this area.

Christophe VENET Laurence NARDON

Articles from Ramses

Obama : Carter ou Cicéron ?

24 September 2010

Between dignity and racial prejudice, empathy and weakness, intelligence and paralysis, will the talents of the presidential candidate become handicaps for the 44th president?

Laurence NARDON

Les Noirs américains : Amour, gloire et pauvreté

24 September 2010

After hurricane Katrina in 2005, images of the miserable and abandoned black community of New Orleans surfaced. This portrait of a black underclass mired in poverty is not thoroughly representative of African Americans in the U.S., however.

Laurence NARDON

Papers

MALE Drones: Europe's Options?

26 May 2010

European countries, lead by France, are expected to take a decision soon on the development and acquisition of MALE drones.

Their choices will be crucial not only for the preservation of European operational sovereignty in military terms but also to guarantee the future of the European aerospace industry.

Louis-Marie CLOUET Laurence NARDON

Papers

U.S. Space Policy in 2009-2010: Towards New Choices?

11 January 2010

Congress and the Administration have launched a series of space policy reviews in 2009, regarding in particular Nasa's exploration policy, the loosening of ITAR regulations and space security. On each of these issues, the U.S. government may adopt more international-leaning policies in 2010.

Laurence NARDON

Papers