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

Asia-Pacific mega trade deals (RCEP, CPTPP): Which role for the US, and what are the implications for the EU?

11 October 2021

While it has long been reluctant to engage in institution-based regional economic integration, East Asia is now home to two mega trade deals: the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

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France, China and the BRI: The challenge of conditional engagement

03 September 2021

Moving away from its traditional low-profile attitude, China has gradually shifted to a muscular foreign policy in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis and the resulting change in the global balance of power.

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The regional economic order: Four scenarios

28 May 2021

What will the economic order in the Indo-Pacific region look like twenty years from now? What are the major trends shaping it, and how are they likely to evolve in the near future?

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Papers

The Economic Pillar of Korea’s New Southern Policy: Building on Existing Assets

15 February 2021

Diversification is a key tenet of South Korea’s New Southern Policy (NSP). In the economic sphere, however, the need for diversification is apparently less pressing as, unlike what is observed in the diplomatic and security domains, Korea’s economic partnerships are less unbalanced and are not (or not as clearly) polarized on the big Four (China, Japan, the United States, and Russia).

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Emmanuel Macron et Xi Jinping, Pékin, janvier 2018

A Rough Year Ahead for the China-France Strategic Partnership

05 February 2021

2020 has been a challenging year for the world economy. Although the magnitude of the shock triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic differed widely from one country to another, no economy was left unscathed.

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PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 25, 2018 : The french president Emmanuel Macron welcoming chinese President Xi Jinping

France’s incoherent China policy confuses partners

22 October 2020

On 21 July 2020, French Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire participated remotely in the High Level Economic and Financial Dialogue with Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua.

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Studies

Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, and Dong Yeon Kim, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, KOAFEC, May 2018

Korea in Africa: Between Soft Power and Economic Interests

10 January 2020

Through development assistance and economic engagement, South Korea has sought to project itself as a different kind of partner for Africa. In reality, it is not so unique.

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External Articles

France’s Indo-Pacific strategy: inclusive and principled

12 December 2019

France’s recently launched Indo-Pacific strategy has attracted many critical and sarcastic comments.

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External Articles

International trade - Rekindling interest in a multilateral rules-based approach

23 August 2019

International trade is one of the themes that used to constitute the very raison d’être of the G7, alongside international security and energy policy.

Françoise NICOLAS Sébastien JEAN

The European Union in Crisis: What Challenges Lie ahead and Why It Matters for Korea

20 May 2019

The EU is currently undergoing serious challenges from inside such as Brexit and strengthening Euroscepticism, rising populism and changing political geography, anti-immigration moods as well as retarded economic recovery.

Heungchong KIM Françoise NICOLAS