As part of the partnership between the two research organizations established in 2022, the first IRSEM-CISA (College of International Security Affairs) Symposium was held over three days at the National Defense University, Fort Lesley J.Mc Nair, during the week of September 18. A group of four IRSEM researchers (Elie Baranets, Beatrice Hainaut, Emmanuel Dreyfus, and Maud Quessard) was welcomed by Professor Andrew Nuovo, Deputy Scientific Director Mathew Dearing, CISA Chancellor Denise Maria Marsh and Director David Burck, among others, for a series of private seminars with several NDU centers and its Washington-based partner think tanks (ACSS, CEPA), as well as for a conference-debate on the new power competitions in front of a few dozen faculty executives and about a hundred officer cadets in the distinguished format of the Chancellor lecture series.

Security issues in Africa, Europe, and the Indo-Pacific, with a focus on the US-China rivalry, the evolution of the Atlantic alliance in the context of the war in Ukraine, and the role of MPS, information, and space issues in the evolution of contemporary conflict, were the topics of fruitful and well-documented discussions that IRSEM researchers were able to engage in with the management and staff of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), and CISA. Researchers from both centers (Elie Baranets and Andrew Nuovo) are currently collaborating to edit an academic book that will be released in the United States in 2024.