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Closed door sessions, limited to invited participants, are on occasions completed by public sessions allowing the general public to deepen its analysis:
- Multilateral and Bilateral dialogs: These High level dialogs are held alternately in France and the countries in question on a regular basis. Their preparation and conclusion are usually led by a team of researchers who pilot the program.
- Round tables: Introduce experts and guest speakers for a discussion with the public.
- Workshops and Seminars: These cycles of work meetings bring together experts on a geographic zone or a theme concerning Asia Pacific.
- Breakfasts: More specifically designed for companies, these sessions are held around a key expert or the analysis of a current affairs issue.
- Meetings: Organized specially for the arrival in France of an expert or group of experts from a foreign institution
Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th October 2009, Brussels
Asia Centre at Sciences Po and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), in partnership with the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), co-organize the 4th session of the Sino-European Strategic Dialogue, an informal and high level event. The dialogue is also sponsored by the Direction de la Prospective of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Directorate General for External Relations of the European Commission.
The goal of the dialogue is to enhance mutual understanding of strategic issues by bringing together Chinese and European experts of international relations and security issues, as well as public officials in their personal capacity. In this dialogue, we are focusing specifically on fostering interaction between Chinese colleagues and Europe’s three largest member states – France, Germany and the United Kingdom – as well as with the EU Brussels institutions...
Information: contact@centreasia.org
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
News briefing introduced and lead by Dr. Eric Frécon, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore.
Under pressure from the international community and the threat of piracy and terrorism, the countries bordering the Strait of Malacca have been led to cooperate more intensely since 2004.
1. With much journalistic and editorial support, trilateral operations were put in place by Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Thailand then came to offer its services, and parallel to those developments, bilateral agreements have reinforced existing partnerships in certain more specific areas. Finally, piracy diminished between 2004 and 2008, Mas Selamat Kastari was arrested in Malaysia and illegal immigrants are detained and sent back to Indonesia each week.
2. However, quarrels and historical sensitivities impede complete, unrestrained cooperation. Neither Jakarta nor Kuala Lumpur is, for example, represented in the intergovernmental organisations based in Singapore in charge of the fight against maritime crime (ReCAAP, Information Fusion Centre). Is this the reason that piracy has risen in 2009, that there is worry about the radicalisation of Indonesia and that smuggling between Indonesia and Singapore endures?
3. If ASEAN remains subdued on these issues and if bi/tri/quadrilateral cooperation appears like a necessary but insufficient solution, then the call is to a third and/or peripheral power: the United States watch over the Strait by offering patrollers (and observe their usage via ICITAP), Japan also positions itself as a generous donor; China has delivered a satellite to Indonesia and India is training with the Indonesian navy off Sumatra. Why so much well benevolence? What about Europe?
Information: Sophie Boisseau du Rocher s.boisseau@centreasia.org
Registration: Rozenn Jouannigot r.jouannigot@centreasia.org
Wednesday December 2nd, 2009, Hôtel Lutetia Paris
Technological innovation is key. Long the preserve of developed countries, it is now being masterfully integrated into the format of “emerging growth” The two presentations will help evaluate the ways of understanding the issue and the likelihood of emerging countries catching up with the developed world.
The question of technological innovation will first be approached from the comprehensive angle of industrial policy and large-scale scientific projects, then will be discussed more concretely through the case of the electric car industry in China. Two preeminent European experts, Philippe Lebrun, from the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and Joël Ruet, Economist at the CNRS, will present us their work on the issue.
Information - Registration:
Pierre Fauquet p.fauquet@centreasia.org – Elodie René e.rene@centreasia.org
Tuesday 17th November 2009
Second session of the 2009-2010 cycle of the Brainstorming group on China current affairs with Roy Kamphausen (Vice President, Political and Security Affairs and Director, Washington, DC Office, The National Bureau of Asian Research) on: « The Modernization of the People’s Liberation Army: Beyond Taiwan? »
The session will track new developments in the modernization process of the People’s Liberation Army. Since the 1995-1996 missile crisis in the Taiwan strait, a war over Taiwan has been the main scenario guiding the modernization of the PLA. To some extent, Taiwan’s new Mainland policy under Ma Ying-jeou has brought a thaw in cross-strait relations and brighter prospects for peaceful interactions, at least in the short-term. Does this imply that the PLA can now prioritize new missions for its future development?
Information - Mathieu Duchâtel m.duchatel@centreasia.org
Thursday 19th November 2009
Asia Centre at Sciences Po will hold a half-day roundtable on the People’s Liberation Army, within the larger framework of its brainstorming group on China current affairs.
The event will address two main issues: the political influence and role of the PLA, and the modernization of the PLA Navy. It will examine two structural issues that not only were put at the heart of Chinese current events by the military parade commemorating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, but also traverse the history of the regime and of the Communist Party: the nature of the relations between the Party and the army, and the political weight of military personnel. Similarly, the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Chinese navy, celebrated this year, presents an opportunity to evaluate the strategic intentions that guide its modernization and its first deployments into outside theatres, as well as the importance of maritime security for China’s national security.
Information – Mathieu Duchâtel m.duchatel@centreasia.org
Friday 23rd October 2009
This seminar took place at Madariaga foundation, College of Europe, Brussels Schuman.
The seminar was a trilateral brainstorming workshop for officials and academics form the EU, China and Africa. It aimed at deepening mutual understanding between the three stakeholders in order to identify concrete path for common action with a focus on the energy and health sector.
Information – Elodie René e.rene@centreasia.org
Thursday 22nd October 2009
First session of the 2009-2010 cycle of the brainstorming group on china’s current affairs with Dr Jabin Jacob (Research Fellow, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi).
The session has adressed the issue of China’s presence in South Asia maritime countries and the strategy on which it is based. The discussion will also tackle the question of the construction of China’s policy towards the Indian Ocean and its level of coherence into an integrated strategy.
Information - Mathieu Duchâtel m.duchatel@centreasia.org
Thursday 15th October 2009
Asia Centre at Sciences Po and the European Climate Foundation jointly organised a briefing to discuss new findings and share insights with experts about China’s low carbon transition and its global implications
Information – Pierre Fauquet p.fauquet@centreasia.org
