Prénom de l'expert

Isabelle

Nom de l'expert

SAINT-MEZARD

Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

Research Areas:

Geopolitics of South Asia
India's strategic and security issues
Indo-Pacific concept

Center for Asian Studies

Isabelle Saint-Mézard is a Professor at Paris VIII University, Deputy Director of the IFG Lab at the French Institute of Geopolitics (IFG), as well as Associate Research Fellow at Ifri’s Center for Asian Studies

She was formerly an analyst on South Asia at the Directorate for Strategic Affairs of the French Ministry of Defence (2006-2011). She was also a research fellow on the China-India Project at the Centre of Asian Studies/Institute of Humanities, the University of Hong Kong (2003-2006). She holds a PhD in international relations from Siences Po Paris. Her research interests focus on South Asian geopolitics, with a special focus on India’s strategic and security issues. She also begun expanding her research on the Indo-Pacific concept and published a book entitled Géopolitique de l’Indo-Pacifique (PUF 2022).

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