Asia Centre

To inform its target audiences (politicians, diplomats, foreign affairs and economic analysts, international businesses, the Military personnel, defence commentators, Academics, journalists and the informed public) of its analyses by publishing journals and occasional papers, by running regular seminars and working groups, and by organising international conferences l To expand its capabilities by participating actively in major Asia-Pacific research and brainstorming networks, as well as in exchanges in Paris, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Singapore, Bangkok or Tokyo l To encourage occasional contributions from current and future global leaders in their own fields l To rely on a core of permanent research fellows and associates from academic and professional circles l To work towards the establishment of a new hub of education, research and debate on international affairs in Paris.  

Asia Centre has succeeded in providing a forum for presentations and discussions, with the cooperation of a great numbers of French and non-French institutions involving some fifty researchers, analysts and professionals of the Asia-Pacific, dealing with such major issues and questions as: the return of national strategies and economic globalization, the prevention of conflict and regional integration policies, and the challenges of democracy and governance concerning the whole region and its international partners. The major transversal and sectoral concerns – the quest for energy, nuclear proliferation and its crises, financial markets and systems, as well as changes to political and social systems, also lie at the core of our research and public debates. […]

This report offers an outline of our activities for the period 2005-2007, in line with the new architecture of Asia and the major questions raised by ongoing events around us, and sometimes, we hope, ahead of those events. […]

Director of Asia Centre and Professor, Sciences Po, Paris

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