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Staff Profile: François Godement

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François Godement is a Senior Policy Fellow based in Paris. He is a historian and analyst of contemporary East Asia.

He founded Asia Centre, Centre études Asie, in 2005 after two decades of teaching and research about contemporary China, East Asian international relations and comparative regional issues at the French Institute of Oriental Studies (Inalco) and at a Paris based think-tank. He is now a Professor at Sciences Po (Paris). He helped found the European Committee of CSCAP (Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific) which he chairs, and is a co-founder of CAEC (Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation). He is also an outside consultant to the Policy Planning staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

François is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm (Paris) where he majored in history, and is a Harvard University postgraduate student. He holds a Ph.D. in contemporary history, has received teaching appointments at the University of California, Inalco and Sciences Po. He has also been a consultant to OECD, the European Union and the World Bank.

Languages: French, English, Mandarin 

Areas of expertise: Chinese and East Asian strategic and international affairs, issues of integration and conflicts.

Contact details: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Mob: +33 6 1172 7544 

Publications include:

A power audit of EU-China relations, report, 17 April 2009. 

Other recent publications include:

Books

The New Asian Renaissance (first published in 1993; in English by Routledge, London & New York, 1997)

The Downsizing of Asia (Routledge, London & New York, 1998) Chine, Japon, ASEAN. Compétition stratégique ou coopération? Ifr-La Documentation française, Paris, 1999

Chine-Etats-Unis, Entre méfiance et pragmatisme, La Documentation française, Paris, 2001.

Papers

China on the Move : a Franco-American Analysis of Emerging Chinese Strategic policies and Their Consequences for Transatlantic Relations, edited by David C.Gompert, François Godement, Evan S. Medeiros & James C. Mulvenon, Rand National Defence Research Institute, 2005

North-east Asia : time to rethink ? Disarmament Forum, 2, 2005, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, Geneva, Switzerland

Asie 2005-2006 - Chine, Corée, du Sud, Inde, Japon, Sri Lanka, Thaïlande, edited by Sophie Boisseau du Rocher & François Godement, Paris, La Documentation Française, 2005

Coming to the right terms with China's rise. Internationale Politik, Berlin, DGAP, n° 12 - december 2005

Neither hegemon nor soft power: China's rise at the gate of the West. pp. 51-70 in Facing China's rise: guidelines for an EU strategy, Chaillot Paper n° 94, Institut d'Etudes de Sécurité, Paris, novembre 2006.

La Corée du Nord, acteur rationnel en Asie du Nord-est. pp. 33-49 in Sophie Boisseau du Rocher et François Godement (sous la direction de), Asie 2006-2007 : entre attente et pragmatisme, Paris, La Documentation Française, 2006.