François Godement
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| François Godement | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 14, 1949 |
| Academic background | |
| School or tradition | Professor at Sciences Po |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Specialist in China and International relations of East Asia; Director of Strategy of Asia Centre, Paris. |
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 Sciences Po 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 University of California, 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 Harvard University 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 he chairs, and is a co-founder of the Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation (CAEC). He has been a consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Union and the World Bank, and is an outside consultant to the Policy Planning staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a Senior policy fellow of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). He founded Asia Centre in Paris in 2005, was its president until 2009 and then became its Strategy Director.[1]
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
