François Godement (born June 14, 1949) is a French historian, specialist of China and international relations in East Asia. He is now a Professor in political science at

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and the Director for the strategy of Asia Centre, Paris.

Biography

Professor of political science since 1992, François Godement has received teaching appointments at the

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, at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) until 2006, at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) from 1985 to 2005, and at Sciences Po, Paris. François Godement is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm (Paris), he was a

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postgraduate student, and he holds a Ph.D. in contemporary history. His research focuses on China’s foreign affairs, domestic factors of China’s strategic and international conceptions, compared politics in East Asia, integration process in Asia, security and international relations’ architecture in Asia. He helped found the European Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP), which disappeared and was then replaced by the EU Committee, and is a co-founder of the Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation (CAEC). He has been a consultant to the

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(OECD), the European Union and the

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, and is an outside consultant to the Policy Planning staff of the

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. He is a Senior policy fellow of the

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(ECFR). He founded Asia Centre in Paris in 2005, was its president until 2009 and then became its Strategy Director.Asia Centr

Asia Centre

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, established in August 2005 by Godement and a team of research fellows and experts on contemporary Asia, is an independent research institute which conducts discussions and produces publications on the strategic and economic aspects of international relations as well as current political and social transformations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Publications

* ''Renaissance de l'Asie'', Odile Jacob, 1993 * ''Communismes d'Asie , mort ou métamorphose ?'', with Jean-Luc Domenach, Complexe, 1994 * ''Dragon de feu, dragon de papier, l'Asie a-t-elle un avenir ?'', Flammarion, 1998 * ''Chine - États-Unis : méfiance et pragmatisme'', La Documentation française, 2001

Notes and references

External links

Website of Asia Centre

The Journal ''China Analysis''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Godement, Francois French political scientists French sinologists 20th-century French historians Academic staff of Sciences Po Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni École Normale Supérieure alumni 1949 births Living people