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).
From the dawn of China’s space program in the mid-1950s to the ability to build, launch and operate satellites in low Earth and geosynchronous orbits from the 1980s, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is in 2021 a complete space power with autonomous access to outer space and to deep-space...
This report is a result of a wide-scale study of public opinion on China in 13 European countries,1 conducted in September and October 2020, on the research sample representative with respect to gender, age, level of education, country region, and settlement density. Here, we focus on the...
In September and October 2020, the Sinophone Borderlands project at Palacký University Olomouc conducted a wide-scale survey of public opinion on China in 13 European countries. The polled countries include: Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia,...
When politics catches up to the economy. In the wake of the EU-China summit, what can we expect from the bilateral relations? 2020 was supposed to be the year of EU-China relations. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has quickly disrupted the positive expectations.
Will China rise stronger from the pandemic? A flow of media reports and op-eds have recently flourished, forecasting the decline of the West and the triumph of China on the world stage amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Some have declared the dawn of a “post-Western world”.
Analysis from 19 countries reveals the complexities of Europe’s relations with China amid the Covid-19 crisis.