Publications
The latest publication of the Observatory – « The Indo-Pacific »
september 2023
This book, published as part of the L’Enjeu mondial collection co-produced by CERI and Presses de Sciences Po, offers an in-depth exploration of a region that has become central to contemporary geopolitical dynamics: the Indo-Pacific. It analyzes the region’s strategic, economic, and political stakes through contributions from leading scholars and experts. What sets this volume apart is its pedagogical approach, clear writing supported by colorful maps, informative graphs, and up-to-date data, making complex global issues accessible to a wide audience.
Read the summary below:
« Backed by maps and data, this book offers, through various contributions, an unprecedented synthesis of analyses on a region that has become a global strategic issue: the Indo-Pacific.
First formulated in 2007 to highlight the convergence of Indian and Japanese interests in maritime security, the concept of the Indo-Pacific established itself on the international agenda within a decade. It shapes the political and strategic discourse of most states interacting in this region and, beyond that, becomes a subject of competing definitions, reinventions, and disputes. It acts as a geopolitical lens through which each actor seems to project their vision of the world.
With the support of maps and data, this book presents, through various contributions, a unique synthesis of analyses on a region that has become a global strategic issue ».
How Franco-Australian Cooperation Can Help Stabilize the Indo-Pacific
Pierre Morcos analyses how the strategic alignment of France and Australia with a common approach as neighbours in the Indo-Pacific can promote a rules-based order that protects sovereignty, fosters trade, and preserves peace.
Franco-German Divergences in the Indo-Pacific: The Risk of Strategic Dilution
Mathieu Duchâtel and Garima Mohan
In this Institut Montaigne article published in October 2020, Mathieu Duchâtel analyses the different approaches of the European Union countries and how the European Union can come together to develop a common approach for the Indo-Pacific.
AUKUS and Submarines: The Fallout for France
In the following article, Valerie Niquet and Marianne Peron-Doise discuss the implications of leaving out France out of a strategic alliance in the Indo-Pacific.
France’s Indo-Pacific strategy: inclusive and principled
This article written by Françoise Nicolas for the French Institute of International Relations 2008, the French White
Paper on Defense and National Security pointed out that France should look beyond West Africa to the entire
Indian Ocean and East Asia region.
Covert Balancing: Great Powers, Secondary States and US Balancing Strategies Against China
In this research paper published in the International Affairs journal, Hugo Meijer and Luis Simon focus on how great powers have always devised strategies to keep great rivals in check. The authors analyse various strategies by examining the US approach to China in the Asia-Pacific.
Shaping China’s rise: the reordering of US alliances and defence partnerships in East Asia
October 2019
By Hugo Meijer in International Politics
Pulled East: The Rise of China, Europe and French Security Policy
May 2021
By Hugo Meijer in Asia-Pacific Journal of Strategic Studies
The Indo Pacific “Tilt” and the Return of British Maritime Strategy
July 2021
By Alessio Patalano in The Integrated Review in Context: A Strategy Fit for the 2020s?
Days of Future Past? British Strategy and the Shaping of Indo-Pacific Security
Géopolitique de l’Asie
by Guilbourg Delamotte with James Brown and Robert Dujarric
The United Kingdom and Southeast Asia after Brexit
2019
By Ian Storey