This article written by Abhijnan Rej for The Diplomat interviews Admiral Jean-Mathieu Ray on France’s position as a major security and defense player in 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.
Mathieu Duchâtel and Garima Mohan
Franco-German Divergences in the Indo-Pacific: The Risk of Strategic Dilution
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.
Paras Ratna
This paper published by the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies assesses the opportunities for engagement for France and India in the Indo-Pacific. It also explores the security architecture and France’s eagerness to partner with like-minded countries.
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.
This article published in the Financial Review analyses France’s approach to the Indo-Pacific and President Macron’s desire to establish a strategic axis between France, Australia and India.
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.