Marc JULIENNE
- China's foreign policy: China and its neighborhood, EU-China, China-US, China-Russia relations
- Taiwan: cross-strait relations, risk assement, domestique policy
- China's defense and security policy: reforms of the PLA, military modernization, nuclear deterrence
- China's domestic policy: CPC's trajectory, economy, security apparatus
- Space: Chinese and Taiwanese programs
Marc Julienne is Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri). He mainly focuses on China’s foreign and security policy, as well as on strategic issues. He has a PhD in political science and international relations from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO, Paris), where he now teaches international relations in Northeast Asia (Master’s Degree in International Relations).
Prior to joining Ifri in 2020 as Head of China Research, he was a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS, Paris) for four years. He was an associate PhD candidate at the Strategic Research Institute of the Ecole militaire (IRSEM, 2016–2019) and a Research Fellow at the Asia Center (Paris). He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS, Berlin, 2015), at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS, Shanghai, 2017), as well as at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR, Taipei, 2023).
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