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He has served as a consultant to the governments of Canada and France, and to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. [...] PRESENTATION OF THE POLITICAL AND GEOSTRATEGIC OBSERVATORY OF THE UNITED STATES Under the direction of Romuald Sciora, Associate Research Fellow at IRIS, the IRIS Political and Geostrategic Observatory of the United States aims to shed light on the presidential and legislative elections of 2024 and on developments in the contemporary United States, in particular their impact on Franco-American coo. [...] The Academy of Political Science, founded by Columbia University in New York, the Columbia-SIPA Urban and Social Policy Program and the Raoul- Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal, are the Observatoire’s main academic partners. [...] This is a reference to the broad reservoir of good feeling that many people around the world have toward the United States. [...] America’s contributions to world culture in the form of films, TV, popular music, and a wide array of consumer products are known throughout most of the world.