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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 peninsulaSoutheast 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.

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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13/04/2018
By: Thomas GOMART, Marc HECKER, (eds.)

How can we define Emmanuel Macron’s foreign policy since he took office? After Nicolas Sarkozy’s brazen style of “gutsy diplomacy” and François Hollande’s “normal diplomacy”, the eighth president of the Fifth Republic seems to have opted for an agile classicism. In substance, he makes no claim...

22/03/2018

As 2017 drew to close, China officially approved plans for its long-awaited national Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) outlined some of the implementation details[1]. Though it will be limited...

28/02/2018

Shortly after his inauguration in May 2017, the President of South Korea, Moon Jae-In, announced a major policy shift away from nuclear and coal power, and toward renewables and gas. This would have meant a complete U-turn from previous policies, considering that nuclear and coal produced 40%...

12/02/2018

Assessing the state of democracy in Asia is a challenge. While some countries, such as Japan and India, have been showing the way from early days, some others, such as in Southeast Asia are still struggling to ensure stable and sustainable democratic institutions and practices.

19
Feb
2010
Friday 19 February 2010
from 08:00 to 09:30 - Conférences

Conference-debate with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, former Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs, former candidate to the Afghan presidency, and leader of the democratic opposition in Afghanistan. The conference will be chaired by Pierre Lafrance, President of the...

09
Feb
2010
Tuesday 09 February 2010
from 08:30 to 10:00 - Seminars and Round-table Conferences

The China Program of the Asia Centre Ifri is please to welcome Dr. Kun-Chin LIN, Lecturer at the King's China Institute of King's College in London, Professor at National University of Singapore and in charge of a collaborative research project with the Chinese Academy of...

02
Feb
2010
Tuesday 02 February 2010
from 17:00 to 18:30 - Conférences

Conference with Jaswant Singh, Member of the Indian Parliament, former Minister of External Affairs, Finance and Defence. The conference will be chaired by Claude Blanchemaison, former Ambassador of France to India.

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26
Jan
2010
Tuesday 26 January 2010
from 08:30 to 10:00 - Seminars and Round-table Conferences

This seminar, co-organized with the Royal Embassy of Thailand, welcomes Prof. Dr. Borwornsak Uwanno, Secretary General of King Prajadhipok's Institute and expert on public law, and Prof. Dr. Surchit Bunbongkarn, President of Thailand's Political Development...

14
Oct
2009
Wednesday 14 October 2009
from 09:00 to 10:30 - Seminars and Round-table Conferences

This meeting of the Debating club on Asian economies is focused on Hong Kong"s political and economical evolution from its reversion to the People"s Republic of China. Christine Loh, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the independent, non-profit public policy think tank...

23
Sep
2009
Wednesday 23 September 2009
from 09:30 to 17:00 - Conférences

This international conference was co-organized with the Centre for European Studies at Fudan University (CES), the Chinese Society for EU Studies (CSEUS), and the Shanghai Institute for European Studies (SIES). It brought together a number of European and Chinese experts in order to analyse...