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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Advisor to the Program on Pacific Islands, Center for Asian Studies
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Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies
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Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) strives to deal with security problems in an inclusive and flexible way. In 2003 it established a Security Community which has since expanded through several institutions and partnerships.
When it was created 50 years ago, ASEAN's (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) economic ambitions were rather modest. However, up until 1992 it progressively integrated the economies of its member states.
There is still a big gap between the discourse and the reality of what Japan wants - and what it can achieve in Africa.
This paper documents new features of Japan's diplomacy that tends to gradually integrate Africa into Japan's strategic interests.
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...
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...
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.
A more capable, nuclear-armed, North Korea will pose very substantial challenges to the U.S. deterrence posture.
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.
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...
This seminar welcomes Guangjin CHEN, Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and expert on rural sociology. The meeting is chaired by Valérie Niquet, Director of the Centre Asie, Ifri.
Séminaire autour d'Asman Anisa, ambassadrice du Pakistan en France, et Daniel Jouanneau, ambassadeur de la France au Pakistan. Présidence: Pierre Lafrance, ancien ambassadeur de France au Pakistan.
Réunion organisée dans le cadre du Cercle de réflexion de économies asiatiques avec Françoise Nicolas, économiste, Ifri, et présidée par Valérie Niquet, directeur du Centre Asie, Ifri.
Conference on the Foreign Policy of India with Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Secretary of India. This event will be held in English.
...This seminar welcomes Choong He HAHN, Minister Counselor at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in France and former Deputy Director of the nuclear dossier on North Korea for the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chair: Valérie Niquet, Director of the Centre Asie, Ifri.
A l'occasion du 150ème anniversaire des relations diplomatiques entre la France et le Japon, le Centre Asie Ifri organise une journée d'étude sur l'avenir du partenariat franco-japonais. Elle s'ouvrira par les interventions de Thierry de Montbrial, directeur général de l'ifri...
Breakfast Debate on India's Africa policy with Anand Sharma, Indian State Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Chaired by Xavier de Villepin, Former Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Affairs Commission. Discussions will be held in English.
Roundtable with Nadjibulah Djanbaz, Advisor at the Supreme Court, Kaboul, Alain Boinet, President /founder, Solidarités, Etienne de Durand, Head of the Security Studies Center, Ifri. Chair: Dominique Moïsi.
Intervention in english by Rod Lyon, Director of the Strategic and International Affairs Program, Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Chaired by Valérie Niquet.
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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The ultimate solution to the debt crisis in the European Union will not only need a banking union but also have to involve some element of a fiscal union and a major shift of power from the national level to the European level. On the other hand, the EU budget to finance the...
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.
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...
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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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...
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...
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.
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...
