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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Publications

Japan and its Alliance with the US. Structure, Dynamics, Evolution to 2030

15 June 2016

China’s rise, US rebalancing in Asia, historic defense reforms in Japan, the adoption of new Guidelines for bilateral cooperation: the Japan-US alliance has reached a turning point in its history.

Céline PAJON John SEAMAN Françoise NICOLAS Alice EKMAN

External Book Chapters

Regional Integration Within Greater China – State of Play and Future Prospects

31 December 2014

Although the Greater China region is often said to constitute an increasingly well-structured economic player, a systematic analysis of intra-regional interactions is not readily available. This chapter seeks to fill this gap.

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External Publications

Economic regionalism in East Asia: The end of an exception?

31 December 2014

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External Book Chapters

Asie de l’Est : la communauté économique impossible

31 December 2014

The East Asian region has long been characterized by its informal structure. Strong economic integration, backed by dense intra-regional trade, has never been accompanied by regional institutional commitments. At the end of the 1990s, there was a vague desire to institutionalize the region, but to no avail.

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External Publications

"Be the Mentor, not the Master"

31 December 2014

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The Asian Century: What International Norms and Practices? Conference Proceedings, 12 September 2014

16 December 2014

Asia is now a nerve center for global economic activity and a theatre of some of the most pressing security concerns of our time. So important has Asia become to global affairs today, and ostensibly for the decades to come, that many have already dubbed the 21st Century as the “Asian Century”.

Françoise NICOLAS Céline PAJON John SEAMAN

Articles from Politique Etrangère

China’s Role in Multilateral Economic Institutions, between Revisionism and Status Quo

01 September 2014

China, now the world’s second largest economy, is going to play an increasingly substantial role in multilateral economic organizations and mechanisms.

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External Books