22/11/2023
09:00 10:00
Speaker: Dr Alica Kizeková is a Senior Researcher and head of the Asia-Pacific Unit at the Institute of International Relations (IIR) in Prague.… Lire la suite

Online event

Soft Balancing? The Czech Republic's Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

Wednesday, 22 November 2023 | 09:00‒10:00 a.m. (CET)

Speaker:
Dr Alica Kizeková is a Senior Researcher and head of the Asia-Pacific Unit at the Institute of International Relations (IIR) in Prague. Previously, she was an adviser to the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (2015-2017), director of the Department of Asian Studies at the Metropolitan University of Prague (2014-2015), and a Visiting Fellow at Nanyang Technical University in Singapore. Her professional interests include regionalism, multilateralism, geopolitics, democratization, soft balancing, great power relations and security in Central Europe, Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific region. Her study, Soft Balancing in the Indo-Asia-Pacific, is to be published by Routledge in 2024. 

 

Chairs & Moderation:
Dr David Camroux is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the CERI and an Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po.

Dr Andreas Ufen is a Senior Research Fellow at GIGA. 
 
They are both co-editors of the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

 


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Scientific coordinators : Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po-CERI / CNRS, David Camroux, Sciences Po - CERI, Patrick Köllner, GIGA and Amrita Narlikar, GIGA.

Organisé par : CERI
24/11/2023
09:30 11:00
Un webinaire organisé conjointement par les programmes CORRIREF, AURA, Diaspora at War et BIELEXIL… Lire la suite

Événement en ligne

Les lieux du commun dans l’émigration de guerre à Tbilissi : quels types de lien et d’engagement ?

Un webinaire organisé conjointement par les programmes CORRIREF, AURA, Diaspora at War et BIELEXIL

Programme complet des webinaires en cliquant ici

Depuis le début de l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine le 24 février 2022, des milliers de Russes ont quitté la Russie, la majorité d’entre eux vers des pays voisins. La Géorgie est devenue l’un des plus grands centres d'accueil, où ont trouvé refuge de nombreux activistes politiques, intellectuels, artistes et ONG délocalisées de Russie, mais aussi des membres de ladite lifestyle migration. Certains d'entre eux ont rapidement ouvert divers "tiers lieux" destinés principalement aux émigrés (bars, restaurants, cafés, coworking, librairies, espaces événementiels, studios de répétition, etc.) Parallèlement, plusieurs organisations d'aide humanitaire aux réfugiés ukrainiens ont été fondées par les membres les plus actifs de la communauté russe qui avaient souvent une expérience préalable de ce type de travail bénévole. Les informations concernant les activités de ces organisations sont bien visible dans les tiers-lieux russes à travers les flyers, carte-postales et affiches. Leurs locaux deviennent par ailleurs des points de rencontre et de mise en commun entre différentes communautés (les émigrés russes qui sont majoritaires parmi les bénévoles, les exilés ukrainiens qui les fréquentent en tant que bénéficiaires). En revanche, les Géorgiens en sont quasiment absents.
Cette présentation aura pour objectif d’approcher et de comparer ces deux types d’initiative collective en tant qu’espaces communs pouvant être analysés à travers une sociologie de l’espace public urbain d’inspiration interactionniste.

Intervenante : 
Anna Zaytseva, MCF, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Olga Bronnikova, MCF, Université Grenoble Alpes


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Responsable scientifique : Thomas Lacroix, Sciences Po - CERI / CNRS

Organisé par : CERI
28/11/2023
12:30 14:00
This event is organized as part of the EU-funded "China Horizons" project.  The project “Dealing with a Resurgent China” (DWARC) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101061700.… Lire la suite

Online event

Social(ist) Security in China – who benefits, how, and why?

This event is organized as part of the EU-funded "China Horizons" project. 

The project “Dealing with a Resurgent China” (DWARC) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101061700.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

 

In the Hu Jintao era, China has built up a comprehensive social security system. The group of beneficiaries was extended from labor market insiders to the majority of the Chinese population. Even a growing number of foreigners working in China got insured, and several European governments signed social security agreements with the People’s Republic of China. 
 
Prof. Jane Duckett and Dr. Matthias Stepan are experts on Chinese social politics, and close observers of the development trajectory of the Chinese social security system. In the online event, they give a short introduction to China’s social security system as of 2023 and key programs, such as old-age pensions, health insurance, and social assistance. 
 
The main part of the event is a discussion moderated by Prof. Jean-Louis Rocca. The discussion covers the following aspects: the driving forces for the expansion of the reach of the social security system, generosity and redistributive effects, differences between urban and rural areas, and potential new policy directions in the Xi Jinping era. Finally, the question how sustainable the system is in face of accelerated demographic ageing and a sluggish economy is addressed.
 
The last third of the event is dedicated to questions of the audience.

 

Speakers :
Prof. Jane Duckett, University of Glasgow
Dr. Matthias Stepan, Ruhr-University Bochum

Moderator :
Jean-Louis Rocca,Sciences Po-CERI


REGISTRATION


Prof. Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. 
Duckett, J. and Munro, N. (2022) Authoritarian regime legitimacy and health care provision: survey evidence from contemporary China. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 47(3), pp. 375-409. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-9626894)
Duckett, J. (2020) Neoliberalism, authoritarian politics and social policy in China. Development and Change, 51(2), pp. 523-539. (doi: 10.1111/dech.12568)
Duckett, J. (2019) International influences on policy making in China: network authoritarianism from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao. TheChina Quarterly, 237(1), pp. 15-37. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001212)

Dr. Matthias Stepan is a researcher at the Institute of East Asian Politics at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)
Stepan, M. (2023). Unification of the Chinese Pension System: Pension Politics under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao (1991-2013). https://doi.org/10.5463/thesis.361(Open access)
Stepan, M., Han, E. und Reeskens, T. (2016). Building the New Socialist Countryside: Tracking Public Policy and Public Opinion Changes in China. The China Quarterly, 226 (June 2016): pp.456-476
Stepan, M., Lu, Q. (2016). The establishment of China’s new rural social insurance pension – a process perspective. Journal of Contemporary China Affairs, 45 (2): pp.113-147.


Scientific coordinators : Jean-Louis Rocca, Sciences Po-CERI and Camille Salgues, Sciences Po-CERI


 

Organisé par : CERI