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Prénom de l'expert
Alice
Nom de l'expert
EKMAN

Intitulé du poste

Former Research Fellow, Head of China research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

Domaine d'expertises En

Research Interests

  • China
  • Taiwan
  • South Korea
Biographie En

Alice Ekman was Head of China research at Ifri’s Center for Asian Studies. She is also an Associate professor at Sciences Po in Paris.

Dr. Ekman was formerly Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University (Beijing), Research Officer at the Embassy of France in China, and Consultant in a Paris-based strategy firm. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, she regularly undertakes research fieldwork in China and East Asia and advises public and private institutions working in the region.

She is a member of the EU committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) and a Senior Associate Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).

She holds a PhD from Sciences Po on China's contemporary practice of diplomacy (Center for International Studies and Research - Asia programme) and a MA from the London School of Economics in International Relations, Economics, and Anthropology (China focus). She also holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Kent, a graduate degree in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Lille and a Chinese language diploma from Lille III University.

 

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Europe in the Face of US-China Rivalry

Date de publication
23 January 2020
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Navigating the mounting tensions between the United States and China is a geopolitical minefield. Is Europe up to the challenge?

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China’s Smart Cities: The New Geopolitical Battleground

Date de publication
18 December 2019
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“Smart city” development has become a fashionable policy and research topic. A growing number of central and local governments in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, in partnership with companies from diverse sectors (construction, transport, energy, water, etc), consulting firms, NGOs and experts, are now developing smart-city-related projects. 

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China’s Belt & Road and the World: Competing Forms of Globalization

Date de publication
24 April 2019
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China increasingly sees its flagship foreign policy project as a tool for restructuring global governance and a vector for promoting a new form of globalization.

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Political Values in Europe-China Relations

Date de publication
06 December 2018
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What role do political values play in Europe-China relations 70 years after the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

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China in the Mediterranean: An Emerging Presence

Date de publication
23 May 2018
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The Chinese presence in the Mediterranean is raising new questions among the diplomatic services of the Maghreb countries, as well as those of southern Europe. Indeed, over the past five years, China has been translating its national priorities with increasing activism in the Mediterranean. 

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CPC's 19th National Congress: A Foreign Policy Perspective

Date de publication
04 December 2017
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As the 19th National Congress is now over, questions about foreign policy implications of China’s leadership reshuffle are raised.

Alice Ekman deciphers the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in foreign policy terms.

Chinese Think Tanks: Ambitions and Contradictions

Date de publication
30 November 2017
Accroche

Since Xi Jinping became president of China, the number of think tanks has considerably increased.

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Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next French President

Date de publication
31 March 2017
Accroche

France’s current presidential campaign has created an unprecedented situation fuelled by revelations and a total absence of restraint, but it has not truly taken account of the disruptions of the last year: Brexit, the attempted coup in Turkey, the election of Donald Trump, the recapturing of Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad, Xi Jinping’s declarations about “economic globalization”, or the behavior of North Korea. The debate, or rather its absence, can be looked at in two ways.

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Three Years of China’s New Silk Roads: From Words to (Re)action?

Date de publication
28 February 2017
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More than three years have already passed since China’s new silk roads were launched by President Xi Jinping. When he first mentioned the idea in an autumn 2013 speech in Kazakhstan, questions quickly emerged on the meaning of this general concept, which soon became widely promoted through a large-scale and well-coordinated public diplomacy strategy both in and outside China.

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Europe and China's New Silk Roads

Date de publication
22 December 2016
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As China elaborates on the design of its "Belt and Road Initiative" (OBOR), the place of Europe within this project is slowly but surely taking shape.