As a frontline zone and a pivot, Southeast Asia is both a testing ground and a showcase of China’s ambitions in developing a grand cooperative scheme. Creating mutually positive linkages is crucial for both partners, if not for the same reasons.
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.
Ifri's Center for Asian Studies’ 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, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands and the Indo-Pacific Strategies.
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.
Research Fellow, Head of Japan Research, Coordinator of the Program on Pacific Islands,
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Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies
...Advisor to the Program on Pacific Islands, Center for Asian Studies
...Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies
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...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”.
This essay offers a general assessment of Japan’s performance in the 2019 G20 and G7 Summits, held respectively in Osaka, Japan and Biarritz, France and looks at how Tokyo coordinated with its European partners (The European Union (EU) institutions and the EU Member States) in these...
In February 2020, the Ifri Center for Asian Studies and the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) held a conference on the Asian security environment.
Analysis from 19 countries reveals the complexities of Europe’s relations with China amid the Covid-19 crisis.
The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare a series of troublesome truths, both about healthcare infrastructures in Western nations and the state of their democracies.
...Northeast Asia has emerged as a critical theater of Russian foreign policy in recent years.
...The multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been of the utmost importance for Japan’s trade policy.
China is rapidly emerging as a formidable power in the development of technical standards, transforming the international standard-setting landscape and reintroducing an element of geopolitics into what are too often considered as benign, technical processes.
Navigating the mounting tensions between the United States and China is a geopolitical minefield. Is Europe up to the challenge?
La question des Rohingyas est plus complexe qu’il n’y paraît.
...Richard W.X. Hu, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong, analyzed China's role in the regional economic integration process.
...Wook Chae is a professor at the Graduate School of Pan-Pacific International Studies of Kyung Hee University and the former President (2008-2013) of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP).
Yukiko Fukagawa, Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University, explained Japan's role in the regional integration process.
Francis Yi-hua Kan is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University.
Euan Graham, Senior Fellow in the Maritime Security Programme at Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), explained Australia's position vis-à-vis regional economic integration in Asia.
GVC Naidu is a Professor of International Relations at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
Toshiro Iijima, Deputy Director-General of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), expressed his views on the following questions:
...Intervention de Céline Pajon sur la politique de défense japonaise à l'émission CulturesMonde sur France Culture.
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