International Conferences
International Conferences offer Institute members a long-term strategic approach to topical global issues. Members come face-to-face with outside political leaders, economic and financial experts and academics in a closed-door setting which ensures free and frank discussion.

Essays and papers written specifically for the conferences help trigger in-depth debate amongst varying schools of thought and enrich the scientific and cultural backdrop of the discussion.

When it is deemed necessary, the meetings conclude with a press conference to raise awareness in the national and international media of the analysis conducted and the proposals presented.

The Institute's International Conferences, organized periodically, focus on essentially geopolitical issues, such as:
• transatlantic relations
• the political and economic future of Europe
• the political and economic evolution of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries from the perspective of their relations with Europe and the United States
• major international structural imbalances and opportunities to improve economic global governance
• the geopolitical role of energy

With each topic, discussion tends to focus on the complex and delicate link between security and the economy. Holding these conferences regularly has enabled the Institute to create a network of experts that follow up on developments in the various areas in a competent and in-depth manner.

International Workshops
The Institute periodically organizes workshops with shorter durations on more specific issues with authoritative international guest speakers. The issues that are foremost in the minds of leading national and international political and economic decision-makers are analyzed concisely.

The workshops aim to encourage free and open debate conducive to the development of long-term perspectives and the formulation of appropriate solutions to current pressing problems posed by the new international order and by the globalization process.