Prénom de l'expert

Marc

Nom de l'expert

JULIENNE

Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

Research Areas:

China's foreign policy: China and its neighborhood, EU-China, China-US, China-Russia relations
Taiwan: cross-strait relations, risk assement, domestique policy
China's defense and security policy: reforms of the PLA, military modernization, nuclear deterrence
China's domestic policy: CPC's trajectory, economy, security apparatus
Space: Chinese and Taiwanese programs

Center for Asian Studies

Marc Julienne is Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri). He focuses on China’s foreign and security policy, as well as on strategic issues. He has a PhD in political science and international relations from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO, Paris), where he now teaches international relations in Northeast Asia (Master’s Degree in International Relations).

Before joining Ifri in 2020 as Head of China Research, he was a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS, Paris) for four years. He was an associate PhD candidate at the Strategic Research Institute of the Ecole militaire (IRSEM, 2016–2019) and a Research Fellow at the Asia Center (Paris). He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS, Berlin, 2015), at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS, Shanghai, 2017), as well as at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR, Taipei, 2023).

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Analysis from Marc JULIENNE

Publications

French public opinion on China in the age of COVID-19: Political distrust trumps economic opportunities

24 November 2020

This report is a result of a wide-scale study of public opinion on China in 13 European countries,1 conducted in September and October 2020, on the research sample representative with respect to gender, age, level of education, country region, and settlement density. Here, we focus on the French portion of the polling, building on the previously published report comparing the results across the 13 countries.

Marc JULIENNE Richard Q. TURCSANYI Matej SIMALCIK Kristína KIRONSKA Renáta SEDLAKOVA

Editorials

Economy and Diplomacy: China’s two Challenges in the Post-Covid-19 World

19 May 2020

Will China rise stronger from the pandemic? A flow of media reports and op-eds have recently flourished, forecasting the decline of the West and the triumph of China on the world stage amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Some have declared the dawn of a “post-Western world”.

Marc JULIENNE