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Conducted yearly alternatively in Beijing and Par is yearly, this seminar discusses international relations and strategic issues between Chinese and European participants. It provides a strategic view for EU relationship with China, a realistic appraisal of difficult issues as well as areas for cooperation. The conference is aimed at a public of researchers, geopolitical analysts, as well as officials. The final roundtable focuses on China-Europe relations with leading officials participating.
contributes to a better understanding of Southeast Asia’s main challenges with a multidisciplinary approach. In a volatile situation, evaluating the long-term trends beyond the current region’s instability (Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma). The Observatory is based on meetings amongst experts and practitioners of Southeast Asia who react to an initial paper on an issue of importance to the region. Southeast Asian, European and French experts will gather and address topics of common interest to the region’s 11 states.
Main Expert: Sophie Boisseau du Rocher s.boisseau@centreasia.org
The Brainstorming Group on China Current Affairs brings together analyses from experts and researchers on China’s domestic politics, strategic affairs and foreign policy. The group meets eight times a year upon invitation in Paris. At each roundtable, discussion is based on the original paper of a leading specialist. Topics this year include China-Pakistan relations, the PLA Navy modernization, US-China relations after the presidential elections in the US, and Chinese perceptions and practice of economic security. Each year in June the group hosts an international conference: Asia Centre’s Annual Seminar on Chinese Contemporary Politics.
Related publications: China Analysis (19 issues up to date). Forthcoming: “Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: CCP’s Adaptat ion to Domest ic and Foreign Challenges“, special issue of China Aktuell, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.
Experts: François Godement, Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Mathieu Duchâtel, Michal Meidan, Thibaud Voïta.
Informations : m.duchatel@centreasia.org
14 June 2007, Paris. Asia Centre, Paris / U. of Haifa, Israel. This dialogue with Israeli experts of China was a wide-ranging examination of China’s strategies and military-related development. Given its situation in the heart of the Middle East, Israel pays very close attention to the increasingly diversified relations that China has developed with all the states of the region. These relations have been given a great impetus by Beijing’s growing external dependence on hydrocarbons. These issues were discussed with Yitzhak Shichor and Yoram Evron (U. of Haifa) and G. Wacker (DGAP), and put in the context of China’s foreign policy and the major international questions concerning the country.
Since 1993, CSCAP’s achievements in the area of preventive diplomacy have been noteworthy, owing to the efforts of six working groups focused on: maritime security; countering the proliferation of WMD; multilateral security frameworks in Northeast Asia; the prevention of human trafficking; peacekeeping; and energy security. In the context of the overall progress made within the CSCAP, the achievements of the first two working groups should be singled out.
25th and 26th Meetings of the Steering Committee
Kuala Lumpur 29 May 2006, Wellington 14 Dec. 2006. These meetings are important both for setting CSCAP’s development (determination of the major themes and subjects, analysis of proposed recommendations) and for the informal debates and discussions that take place on the sidelines and enable a better evaluation of the main trends in relation to regional security concerns.
F. Godement and K. von Hoesslin (researcher at the York Centre for International Security Studies & UN World Maritime U.) in turn represented the EUCSCAP at these meetings...
MARITIME SECURITY [CSCAP working group]
The aims of the working group (set in Kunming, Dec. 2004) are: to consider maritime capacity, identify the requirements for implementation of processes for cooperation in the region, analyse the inadequacies and deficiencies of the agreements currently in place, and draft concrete proposals of relevance to the ministers concerned. Since 2005, this working group, co-chaired by S. Bateman (Australia) and P. Das (India), has met three times to consider the subject "Capacity building for maritime cooperation" (New Delhi and Singapore in 2005, Kuala Lumpur on 27-28 May 2006). The mandate of the working group was extended in Wellington on 16-17 Dec. 2006, to include "The role of maritime security forces" and it approved an action plan for the ARF: "Maritime knowledge and awareness, the basic foundations of maritime security cooperation in Asia Pacific".
S. Boisseau du Rocher has participated in the group’s work since its inception and in the work of a subgroup (with Chinese and New Zealand representatives) focused on issues of awareness-raising in relation to maritime concerns; K. von Hoesslin similarly contributes his expertise by participating regularly in this working group for CSCAP Europe.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION - WMD [CSCAP working group]
This working group, chaired by Brad Glosserman (CSIS), aims at redefining security standards in relation to non-proliferation by close monitoring of the international system. Since 2005, it has met five times to produce final recommendations for the ARF: "An Asia Pacific handbook and action plan to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Asia Pacific". In parallel, a subgroup on the monitoring of arms exports met for the second time in Beijing on 11 and 12 May 2006.
CSCAP Europe is active in this working group, through the participation of F. Umbach (DGAP), co-chair of CSCAP Europe, and B. Sitt (CESIM). T. de Champchesnel (CESIM) and D. Santoro (Macquarie U.) also take in the working group meetings through the "Young Leaders" program, an initiative of the Pacific Forum (CSIS) in close liaison with this working group. With the participation of approximately twenty young researchers and practitioners, this program promotes an exchange and dialogue amongst young professionals who are well-equipped in the field.
3rd meeting of the working group
26-27 Mar. 2006, Singapore. The agenda covered the following subjects: the global non-proliferation regime; nuclear energy and non-proliferation: what risks?; the PSI; the six-party talks and North Korea; and an Action Plan for non-proliferation in East Asia.
4th meeting of the working group
27-29 Nov. 2006, Danang. Thirty experts continued their work through in-depth sessions on: the global non-proliferation regime; regional problems and challenges; the PSI; developments in the Korean peninsula.
[Coordination of the workshop of the Reseau Asie’s 3rd Congress – IMASIE]
28-30 Sept. 2005. While the ASEAN is broadening the scope of its dialogue, the political and economic centre of gravity of East Asia has gradually shifted towards China (Free Trade Agreements and Strategic Dialogue). However, the role played by China is not the only factor at work in this shift and the trend is not as clear as Beijing would like us to believe.The purpose of this workshop was to analyse the parameters that will influence the organisation of the region and lead China either to come to an arrangement with its partners or to jeopardize the emergence of a structured region.
La Chine et le Japon: des concurrents pour un “hégémon régional”? Premiers jalons pour une approche en EPI de l’Asie Orientale [China and Japan: Rivals for “Regional Hegemony”? First Steps towards an IPE Approach in East Asia], by C. Figuière and L. Guilhot (U. Pierre Mendès France – Grenoble II) / Les perspectives d’intégration économique en Asie de l’est sous l’influence de la Chine [Perpsectives for Economic Integration in East Asia under China’s Influence], by F. Nicolas (U. of Marne-la-Vallée) / Réorganisations régionales en Asie orientale: Peut-on parler de regionalisation ? [Regional Reorganisation in East Asia: To what extent is it a Regionalisation Process?] by S. Boisseau du Rocher / Intégration régionale en Asie et montée en puissance de la Chine: Perspective japonaise [Regional Integration in Asia and the Rise of China. A Japanese Perspective], by G. Delamotte.