01/06/2017
There is still a big gap between the discourse and the reality of what Japan wants - and what it can achieve in Africa.
Asia
Asia is a nerve center for multiple global economic, politic and security challenges. The Center for Asian Studies aims at providing documented expertise and a platform of discussion on Asian issues 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 two major axes: relations between Asia's major powers and the rest of the world; and internal economic and social dynamics of Asian countries. The Center's research focuses primarily on China, Japan, India, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific, but also covers Southeast Asia, the Korean peninsula and the Pacific Islands.
The Centre for Asian Studies maintains close institutional links with counterpart research institutes in Europe and Asia, and its researchers regularly carry out fieldwork in the region.
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' work, as well as that of their partners, is regularly published in the Center’s electronic journal Asie.Visions.
Marc JULIENNE
Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
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Céline PAJON
Research Fellow, Head of Japan Research, Coordinator of the Program on Pacific Islands,
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John SEAMAN
Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies
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Christian LECHERVY
Advisor to the Program on Pacific Islands, Center for Asian Studies
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Françoise NICOLAS
Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies
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Isabelle SAINT-MEZARD
Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies
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17/05/2017
This paper documents new features of Japan's diplomacy that tends to gradually integrate Africa into Japan's strategic interests.
26/04/2017
This paper provides an overview of the womenomics strategy launched by Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and shows how a plan designed to mitigate Japan’s demographic crises and labor shortages also evolved into a foreign relations strategy to help manage Japan’s reputation abroad on gender...
31/03/2017
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...
30/03/2017
As the US-led international system struggles under the strain of multiple challenges, the complex web of relations between Russia, China, and India will be critical to the formation of a new world order.
27/03/2017
A more capable, nuclear-armed, North Korea will pose very substantial challenges to the U.S. deterrence posture.
22/03/2017
Since the fall of the Derg regime in 1991, cordial relations have developed between China and Ethiopia, forming a positive political backdrop in front of which the two countries’ interests have increasingly converged.
10/03/2017
Japan’s cyberdefenses remain underdeveloped compared to the country’s great reliance on information and communications technology. Despite Japan’s initial slow response to the security challenges emerging from cyberspace, this paper posits that cybersecurity under the administration of...
28/02/2017
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...
06/02/2017
Despite being geographically distant, France and Japan share a number of converging interests.
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Mar
2007
from 17:00 to 18:30
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Energy Power Games in Asia
A conference with Professor Tatsuo Masuda, visiting Professor to Paris Dauphine, former Vice-President of the Japan National Oil Corporation and former Director at IEA.
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14
Sep
2006
from 11:00 to 12:30
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
The Rise of Superpowers: Friction and Cooperation in Japan's Relations with the Emerging Asian Superpowers
A conference with Yukio Okamoto, former Advisor for Foreign Policy of Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi. This discussion will be held in English.
06
Jul
2006
at 00:00
- Dinners and Luncheons
Pakistan: Anchor for Peace and Stability in the Region
A conference by Khurshid Kasuri, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, chaired by Thierry de Montbrial, President, Ifri.
31
May
2006
at 00:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
India - The New Economic Paradigm
A conference by Kamal Nath, Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry, presided by Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor, Ifri. (In English) (For corporate members)
10
Apr
2006
from 15:00 to 17:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Growth and Trade Prospects in Asia
A conference co-organised by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Centre asie ifri on the occasion of the publication of the last report of the ADB 'Asian Development Outlook 2006'....
08/11/2012
Alors que s'ouvre le Congrès du Parti communiste chinois, ce jeudi 8 novembre, le ralentissement économique du pays pourrait donner du fil à retordre aux nouveaux dirigeants.
17/10/2012
Leading European scholars have urged Japan to follow Germany's example and "fully recognize the terrible human sufferings" imposed on Chinese and other Asians during World War II, saying such a recognition would be a very important element in solving the Beijing-Tokyo...
26/09/2012
La bourse de Tokyo était encore en baisse ce mercredi 26 septembre. En cause : les tensions persistantes entre la Chine et le Japon.
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24/08/2012
L'empire du Milieu est-il sur le point de relâcher la pression sur le marché stratégique des terres rares ? C'est ce que pourrait laisser penser l'annonce du gouvernement chinois, mercredi 22 août, d'augmenter ses quotas d'exportation de ces dix-sept métaux indispensables...
10/08/2012
Qidong, le 28 juillet dernier. Ils sont une poignée de jeunes Chinois à se tenir debout sur la voiture retournée au milieu de la foule. Un peu maladroitement, comme intimidés par leur propre effronterie. Dans l’air, les feuilles blanches qui virevoltent paisiblement en...
30/07/2012
Purge au sein de l’armée, nouveau titre militaire, annonce publique de son mariage, sans toutefois donner de détails, Kim Jong-un semble faire dans la nouveauté pour asseoir son pouvoir.
19/07/2012
L'Organisation mondiale du commerce met en place un groupe de concertation pour régler le différend qui oppose la Chine à un front constitué des États-Unis, du Japon et de l'Union européenne sur la question des terres rares. Pékin est accusé d'imposer des quotas et des...
19/07/2012
Sur le marché des terres rares, dont le chiffre d'affaires annuel avoisine 4 milliards de dollars (3,2 milliards d'euros), pour une production de 130 000 tonnes, la Chine détient aujourd'hui un quasi-monopole. Ces matériaux sont cruciaux pour les secteurs de pointe,...
22/06/2012
Alors que le sommet des Nations Unies « Rio+20 » s’achève, nous allons nous intéresser ce matin à la place de la Chine dans ces négociations et plus généralement à sa position quant à la question environnementale.
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