24/04/2019
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.
Asia
Asia is now a nerve center for global economic activity and a theatre of some of the most critical political and security developments of our time. The Center for Asian Studies provides documented expertise and a platform of discussion on Asian issues that seeks to accompany decision makers and explain and contextualize developments in the region for the sake of a larger public dialogue.
The Center’s research is organized along three major axes: regionalism and intra-regional relationships in Asia; relations between Asia’s major powers (China, Japan, India) and the rest of the world; and internal political, economic and social dynamics of Asian countries. This research focuses primarily on China, India and Japan, but also increasingly covers the Korean peninsula and Southeast Asia.
The Center organizes closed-door roundtables, expert-level seminars and a number of public events, including an Annual Conference, that welcome experts from Asia, Europe and the United States. The Center’s researchers regularly participate in international conferences, particularly in Asia. Their work, as well as that of their partners, is regularly published in the Center’s electronic journal, Asie.Visions.
Françoise NICOLAS
Senior Research Fellow and Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
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Céline PAJON
Research Fellow, Head of Japan Research
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John SEAMAN
Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
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Alice EKMAN
Research Fellow, Head of China research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
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Sophie BOISSEAU du ROCHER
Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
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Isabelle SAINT-MEZARD
Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
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Claude MEYER
Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
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18/04/2019
Japan’s policies in post-Soviet Central Asia, similarly to its actions in other Asian subregions, have often been interpreted recently as reactions to China’s advances – in particular, the Belt and Road Initiative. This first impression can be misleading.
09/04/2019
Since mid-2012, in the wake of the global financial crisis, China has sought to reinvigorate relations with Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), notably through the creation of the 16+1 formula.
08/04/2019
Under President Macron, France has staked out a positive but principled position towards China's BRI.
19/03/2019
Despite Indonesia’s reputation for a traditionally moderate brand of Islam, religious conservativism is gaining considerable political traction in the lead up to this April’s presidential election.
01/03/2019
In recent years, Russia has focused on developing its relations with Southeast Asia, particularly in the areas of economic ties and arms sales.
30/01/2019
Indonesia’s Indo-Pacific strategy is driven less by a coherent national strategy than by a choice made due to the lack of alternatives resulting from Indonesia’s domestic and international weaknesses.
23/01/2019
China’s dominance in the production of rare earth elements symbolizes the competition for once obscure sets of mineral resources in our increasingly digital, low carbon world.
19/12/2018
In recent years, experts and onlookers have noted a convergence of geopolitical interests between the United States and India.
17/12/2018
Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus have long been a blind-spot for Chinese diplomacy and economic policy. For over a decade, however, China has been laying the foundations of a long-term presence in the area, a process which has accelerated since the end of 2013 with the launch of the Belt...
05
Jun
2019
from 09:30 to 18:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
G7 / Think Tank7 Summit G7 Engagement Group
The Think Thank 7 (T7) is an engagement group that brings together the leading Think Tanks from the G7 countries in order to analyze and make recommendations on key issues of the G7 presidency.
03
Jun
2019
from 09:30 to 12:30
- Ifri Conferences
Ahead of the G20 and G7 Summits: Debating Global Governance on Trade and Digital Affairs
This year Japan hosts the G20 Summit that will take place in Osaka on June 28-29 and France chairs the G7 Summit, to be held in Biarritz end of August.These two meetings will be of crucial importance, as multilateralism is undermined by unilateral and protectionist practices and new...
21
Jan
2019
from 12:30 to 14:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
From Crisis to Peace-making in Korea: President Moon Jae-in’s peace initiative Seminar-debate
What is the prospect of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula in 2019? A debate with Moon Chung-in, special advisor for unification and national security affairs to ROK President Moon Jae-in.
03
Dec
2018
from 10:00 to 15:30
- Ifri Conferences
Power Competition and Regional Stability in Asia
Annual Conference of Ifri's Center for Asian Studies
22
Nov
2018
from 09:15 to 13:15
- Ifri Conferences
The 160th Anniversary of the France-Japan Diplomatic Relations: A New Strategic Partnership International Conference
The year 2018 marks the 160th anniversary of Franco-Japanese diplomatic relations. This is the occasion to reflect upon the achievement of the partnership so far, but also to look ahead and discuss how the bilateral relationship can grow even closer in the future.
15
Nov
2018
from 09:00 to 12:30
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Europe in data geopolitics
Data no longer should be understood as a sole commercial or regulatory issue, but rather as an actual stake of international politics. For Europe, in a context of transatlantic tensions, the impact of the digital economy’s center of gravity moving towards China is potentially significant....
Economy - North America - United States - Asia - China - Europe
13
Nov
2018
from 09:30 to 11:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Between Giants: The Sino-Indian contest for influence in the Indian Ocean Seminar
China and India are emerging as major maritime powers as part of long-term shifts in the regional balance of power.
27
Sep
2018
from Thursday 27 September 2018 14:00 to Friday 28 September 2018 13:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
QUAD 2018 Annual Meeting
Since 1983, the QUAD gathers every year, the SWP, RAND Corporation, Chatham House and Ifri.
25
Sep
2018
from 09:00 to 11:30
- Ifri Conferences
Approaching the Indo-Pacific: American, French, Indian and Japanese Visions
The Indo-Pacific has become a buzzword since 2017, as it came to be used by all major players in the region stretching from East Africa to the Pacific.
Asia - Southeast Asia - China - India and South Asia - Japan
06
Apr
2018
from 09:30 to 11:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
The Rise of China in the Pacific Islands: Strategic Threat or Economic Opportunity? Séminaire
China's growing influence in the South Pacific is raising an increasing number of sensitive questions about the region's development and its role in regional geopolitics.
04/06/2019
China believes its near-monopoly gives it leverage over the US but supply cuts would spur rival producers.
Economy - Energy - United States - Asia - China
29/05/2019
Growing tensions between China and the United States over the escalating trade dispute – and the resulting global uncertainty – are forcing other countries to choose between the two economic superpowers.
United States - Asia - China - Europe
12/07/2018
A dialogue with Yoshiji NOGAMI, Vice-Chairman of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA).
10/05/2018
China’s ambitious One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative is redefining China’s role in the world economy. With over $900 billion in investments covering more than 65% of the world’s population, OBOR aims to develop new markets, integrate far flung regions, and stabilize China’s borders. But as...
27/04/2018
This Friday, April 27, the South Korean and North Korean leaders will meet in the demilitarized zone dividing their estranged countries to discuss improving relations and possibly even formally ending the Korean War, which has continued in the form of an often tense and fragile armistice since...
26/02/2018
Does China now have a president for life? China's leader Xi Jinping could stay in power indefinitely following the ruling Communist Party's proposal to scrap term limits.
09/02/2018
Tokyo is ramping up international partnerships and investments to offer an alternative to Beijing’s signature foreign-policy project. For the first time in 15 years, Japan’s foreign minister last month paid a visit to the tiny island nation of Sri Lanka, shepherding a dozens-strong delegation...
27/01/2018
If India has long been perceived, and rightly so, as a reluctant player in international affairs, but that perception is quickly coming to an end. Indeed, by organizing a major international forum, the Raisina Dialogue, for the third year in a row, Delhi is signaling that it is now seeking to...
08/01/2018
On his first state visit to China, the French president has pushed for more European involvement in China's ambitious multi-billion dollar project to revive the ancient Silk Road trade route. China specialist Alice Ekman talks to RFI's Amanda Morrow about how China is likely to respond to...
08/01/2018
"I came to tell you, is that Europe is back". French President Emmanuel Macron says China and Europe should work together on Beijing's "Belt and Road" initiative. Macron began his first state visit to China with a stop in Xian, an eastern departure point of the ancient Silk Road.