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The Institut français des relations internationales was officially founded in 1979. This founding occurred with support from Prime Minister Raymond Barre and Foreign Ministers Louis de Guiringaud and Jean François-Poncet.
Thierry de Montbrial stood at the center of establishing the Centre d'Analyse et de Prévision within the Ministry under President Georges Pompidou during 1973. Marc Gilbert later served as general secretary after becoming a producer for Italiques at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française.
The institute operates independently from all administrative and financial regulatory authorities without any affiliation to political parties. Approximately 70% of funding comes from private sources while the rest derives from subsidies or state contracts, totaling about 6.5 million Euros as recorded in 2011.
The Paris headquarters maintains close ties with a Brussels office that opened its doors in March 2005. The Brussels presence specifically targets European policy discussions and regional security matters while allowing the institute to operate across multiple continents.
Ramsès serves as an annual collective work dedicated to main global trends since 1981 with circulation running about 10,000 copies. In 2012 alone they published 12 books four of which appeared in foreign languages alongside 130 Notes d'Ifri released half of them translated into English German or Russian.