Thierry de Montbrial

Sharing international responsabilities among the trilateral countries

New York, 1982

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with Nobuhiko Ushiba et Graham Allison

About the book

Report for the Trilateral Commission

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Autors

Nobuhiko Ushiba, Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs; former State Minister for External Economic Affairs, Tokyo; former Ambassador to the United States, Tokyo
Graham Allison, Don K. Price Professor of Politics and Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Thierry de Montbrial, Director, Institut Français des Relations Internationales; Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.

Content

Introduction
I. Why Share?
A. Benefits of Partnership
B. New Geopolitical Realities
C. Threats to Common Interests
D. Analytics of Sharing
E. A Framework for Sharing
F. Limits to Sharing
II. Perceptions and Trends in Japan, the United States, Canada and Western Europe
A. Japan
B. The United States
C. Canada
D. Western Europe
III. Areas of Principal Challenge
A. International Economic System
B. The Soviet Challenge
C. Relations with the Developing World
Conclusions

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Book details

  • Published in 1982

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Biography

Thierry de Montbrial is Executive Chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), which he founded in 1979. He is Professor Emeritus at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In 2008, he launched the World Policy Conference. He has been a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques of the Institut de France since 1992, and is a member of a number of foreign Academies.

Thierry de Montbrial chaired the Department of Economics at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1974 to 1992. He was the first Chairman of the Foundation for Strategic Research (1993-2001). Entrusted with the creation of the Policy Planning Staff (Centre d’Analyse et de Prévision) at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was its first director (1973-1979).

He has authored more of twenty books, several of them translated in various languages, including Action and Reaction in the World System. The Dynamics of Economic and Political Power (UBC Press, Vancouver, Toronto, 2013) and Living in Troubled Times. A New Political Era (World Scientific, 2018).

He is a Grand Officier of the Légion d’honneur, Grand Officier of the Ordre National du Mérite. He has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun – Gold and Silver Star, Japan (2009) and other state honors by the French and several foreign governments.

Thierry de Montbrial is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines, and received a Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Thierry de Montbrial

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