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...
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
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...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...
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%...
India has committed to ambitious action on climate change, but financing its renewable energy goals remains a significant challenge.
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.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the most resource-rich countries in the world, but successive governments have failed to put the country on a stable development track.
The global environment for trade is undergoing significant changes. New emerging players such as China are aiming to adapt the rules and institutions inherited from the postwar Bretton Woods system.
Chinese investments in Europe have surged in recent years, becoming both a source of hope and growing concern across the continent.
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.
Since Xi Jinping became president of China, the number of think tanks has considerably increased.
What political alternatives exist in Afghanistan?
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...
China's Road Construction Strategy: Investment and Development
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...
India: The Challenges Ahead
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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Demystifying the colour politics of Thailand
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...
What shape for the DPRK economy? An Analysis of The Trade Flows
Meeting with Hyung-Gon Jeong, Economist, Specialist of the DPRK economy with the Korea Institute of International Economic Policy (KIEP, Séoul). The seminar is chaired by Françoise Nicolas, Economist, Ifri.<...>
From Periphery to Core: India and the Middle East
Seminar with P. R. Kumaraswamy, Professor at the Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Chair : Gilles Boquerat, senior research fellow and head of...
Sustainable Cities for a Billion: China's Daunting Challenges in Urbanization
This discussion seminar will be introduced by QI Ye, professor and director of the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing. The seminar is part of Ifri's China Project research program for 2009 on
Becoming China: Hong Kong's Evolution 1997-2009
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...
Quelles trajectoires énergétiques pour l'Inde ?
Conférence avec Gilles Boquerat, chercheur, responsable du programme Inde et Asie du Sud, Ifri, Jacques Lesourne, président du Comité scientifique du Programme Energie, Ifri, Prem Shankar Jha, analyste politique et économique indien,...
Europe-China Dialogue: Common Ground and Differences
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...
Toute cette semaine en compagnie de Claude Meyer, maître de conférences à Sciences-Po, chercheur associé à GEM Sciences-Po, auteur de "La Chine, banquier du monde" éditions Fayard.
La Chine et la Corée du Sud crient avec raison à la provocation du Japon dont le Premier ministre Shinzo Abe a effectué le 26 décembre 2013 une visite au sanctuaire Yasukuni.
...Les réformes annoncées passent par une véritable recomposition de l'administration chinoise, qui risque de déboussoler les entreprises françaises. Au moins à court terme.
Par Alice Ekman, chercheur associé, Centre Asie, Ifri
Selon la directrice du centre Asie de l’Institut français de relations internationales (Ifri), le pouvoir thaïlandais réagit bien aux « provocations » de ses opposants. Elle rappelle néanmoins que les événements de 2010 n’avaient pas commencé autrement, ce qui rend...
L’événement de la place Tiananmen, lundi, réactualise la question des relations interethniques en Chine.
Un nouveau centre commercial vient d’ouvrir à Paris, et déjà son propriétaire songe à le vendre à un fonds chinois. Faut-il favoriser l’investissement chinois à l’international ?
...Le prochain sommet Asie-Pacifique se tient les 7 et 8 octobre 2013, dans l’île indonésienne de Bali. Regard sur les enjeux et les questions qui se posent à l’APEC aujourd’hui.
...Trop charismatique, trop ambitieux, trop brutal, trop corrompu, bref trop encombrant : Bo Xilai n’empêchera plus, avant un moment, les dirigeants chinois de gouverner en rond. L’ancien premier secrétaire du Parti communiste de Chongqing, une des plus grandes villes de...