Prénom de l'expert

Françoise

Nom de l'expert

NICOLAS

Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

Research Areas:

Emerging economies, with a focus on East Asia
East Asian regional economic integration
Foreign direct investment and growth
Globalization and its impacts on global governance

Center for Asian Studies

Françoise Nicolas joined Ifri as a Resarch Fellow in1990 and was later the Director of the Center for Asian Studies until February 2024. She is now Senior Advisor to the Center for Asian Studies while she also teaches at Langues' O, Sciences Po Paris (Europe-Asia programme, Le Havre campus) and Sciences Po (Lyon) and is a consultant to the Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD (DAF) focusing on Southeast Asian non-member countries. In the past she was an assistant Professor in international economics at the University of Paris-Est (Marne-la-Vallée) from 1993 to 2016, and taught at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS, Geneva – 1987-90), at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1991-95), as well as at the HEC School of Management (2000-02).

Françoise Nicolas holds a Ph.D in international economics (1991) and a MA in political science (1985) from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), as well as a diploma in translation from the University of Geneva (1980). She has also studied at the University of Sussex (1980-81) and has spent some time as a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore (1999) and at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) in Seoul (2004).

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Analysis from Françoise NICOLAS

Publications

Studies

The President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping at the Informal Meeting of Heads of State and Government of the BRICS Countries (2017)

China’s Belt & Road and the World: Competing Forms of Globalization

24 April 2019

China increasingly sees its flagship foreign policy project as a tool for restructuring global governance and a vector for promoting a new form of globalization.

Alice EKMAN Françoise NICOLAS Céline PAJON John SEAMAN Isabelle SAINT-MEZARD Sophie BOISSEAU du ROCHER Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN

External Articles

France and China's Belt and Road Initiative

08 April 2019

Under President Macron, France has staked out a positive but principled position towards China's BRI.

Françoise NICOLAS

Papers

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Catching Up or Staying Ahead. Japanese Investment in the Mekong Region and the China Factor

30 May 2018

There is no denying that the Mekong region has become an economic battleground where Japan and China are competing to gain and sustain economic influence in the region.

Françoise NICOLAS

Studies

Trump, un an après. Un monde à l'état de nature ?

02 November 2017

In the week following Trump’s election, Ifri published a study to identify the likely changes in U.S. foreign policy. From the outset, this election appeared as a change in the U.S.’ trajectory, with consequences on the power relations and functioning of the international system.

Thomas GOMART Laurence NARDON Marc HECKER Barbara KUNZ Françoise NICOLAS Vivien PERTUSOT Matthieu TARDIS Jean-François BOITTIN

The ASEAN Economic Community’s Original Integration Model

12 June 2017

When it was created 50 years ago, ASEAN's (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) economic ambitions were rather modest. However, up until 1992 it progressively integrated the economies of its member states.

Françoise NICOLAS

Studies

Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next French President

31 March 2017

France’s current presidential campaign has created an unprecedented situation fuelled by revelations and a total absence of restraint, but it has not truly taken account of the disruptions of the last year: Brexit, the attempted coup in Turkey, the election of Donald Trump, the recapturing of Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad, Xi Jinping’s declarations about “economic globalization”, or the behavior of North Korea. The debate, or rather its absence, can be looked at in two ways.

Thomas GOMART Marc HECKER Alain ANTIL Marie-Claire AOUN Christophe BERTOSSI Corentin BRUSTLEIN Alice EKMAN Sébastien JEAN Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN Barbara KUNZ Frédéric MONLOUIS-FÉLICITÉ Laurence NARDON Françoise NICOLAS Julien NOCETTI Céline PAJON Michel PÉBEREAU Vivien PERTUSOT Dorothée SCHMID John SEAMAN Hans STARK Matthieu TARDIS

Papers

Chinese Investors in Ethiopia: The Perfect Match?

22 March 2017

Since the fall of the Derg regime in 1991, cordial relations have developed between China and Ethiopia, forming a positive political backdrop in front of which the two countries’ interests have increasingly converged.

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Studies

Three Years of China’s New Silk Roads: From Words to (Re)action?

28 February 2017

More than three years have already passed since China’s new silk roads were launched by President Xi Jinping. When he first mentioned the idea in an autumn 2013 speech in Kazakhstan, questions quickly emerged on the meaning of this general concept, which soon became widely promoted through a large-scale and well-coordinated public diplomacy strategy both in and outside China.

Alice EKMAN Françoise NICOLAS John SEAMAN Gabrielle DESARNAUD Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN Şerif Onur BAHCECIK Clélie NALLET

China and Global Economic Order: A discreet yet undeniable contestation

23 November 2016

Having long remained a passive presence within multilateral economic organisations, China recently changed its stance when the United States was faced with a major financial crisis.

Françoise NICOLAS

Studies

Le monde selon Trump. Anticiper la nouvelle politique étrangère américaine

16 November 2016

What will become of US foreign policy under Donald Trump? A selection of Ifri researchers has come together to offer their thoughts on this question. Our experts cover an array of topics through 14 contributions, ranging from the future Sino-American relations, through US engagement in the Middle East, to the prospects of a renewed transatlantic relationship. This analysis intends to help readers anticipate the outcomes of this election in order to facilitate decision-making.

Marie-Claire AOUN Christophe BERTOSSI Corentin BRUSTLEIN Alice EKMAN Thomas GOMART Tatiana KASTOUÉVA-JEAN Carole MATHIEU Laurence NARDON Françoise NICOLAS Julien NOCETTI Céline PAJON Vivien PERTUSOT Dorothée SCHMID John SEAMAN Hans STARK Matthieu TARDIS