François Godement

François Godement
Born (1949-06-14) June 14, 1949
Academic work
School or traditionProfessor at Sciences Po
Main interestsSpecialist in China and International relations of East Asia; Director of Strategy of Asia Centre, Paris.

François Godement (born June 14, 1949) is a French historian, specialist of China and international relations in East Asia. He is now a Professor in political science at Sciences Po and the Director for the strategy of Asia Centre, Paris.

Biography

Professor of political science since 1992, François Godement has received teaching appointments at the University of California, at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) until 2006, at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) from 1985 to 2005, and at Sciences Po, Paris.

François Godement is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm (Paris), he was a Harvard University postgraduate student, and he holds a Ph.D. in contemporary history. His research focuses on China’s foreign affairs, domestic factors of China’s strategic and international conceptions, compared politics in East Asia, integration process in Asia, security and international relations’ architecture in Asia.

He helped found the European Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP), which disappeared and was then replaced by the EU Committee, and is a co-founder of the Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation (CAEC). He has been a consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Union and the World Bank, and is an outside consultant to the Policy Planning staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a Senior policy fellow of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). He founded Asia Centre in Paris in 2005, was its president until 2009 and then became its Strategy Director.[1]

Asia Centre

Asia Centre, established in August 2005 by Godement and a team of research fellows and experts on contemporary Asia, is an independent research institute which conducts discussions and produces publications on the strategic and economic aspects of international relations as well as current political and social transformations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Publications

  • Renaissance de l'Asie, Odile Jacob, 1993
  • Communismes d'Asie , mort ou métamorphose ?, with Jean-Luc Domenach, Complexe, 1994
  • The New Asian Renaissance: From Colonialism to the Post Cold-War, 1997[2]
  • Dragon de feu, dragon de papier, l'Asie a-t-elle un avenir ?, Flammarion, 1998
  • The Downsizing of Asia, 1999[3][4][5]
  • Chine - États-Unis : méfiance et pragmatisme, La Documentation française, 2001
  • Que veut la Chine ? De Mao au capitalisme, 2012[6]
  • Contemporary China: Between Mao and Market, 2016[7]

Notes and references

  1. ^ Asia Centre [1] Archived 2012-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Fry, Gerald W. (August 1998). "The New Asian Renaissance: From Colonialism to the Post Cold-War By François Godement. Translated by Elisabeth J. Parcell. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. x, 313 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 57 (3): 804–805. doi:10.2307/2658749. ISSN 0021-9118.
  3. ^ Ching, Frank (March 2000). "The Downsizing of Asia. By François Godement. [London and New York: Routledge, 1999. vi + 245 pp. £14.99. ISBN 0-415-19834-8.]". The China Quarterly. 161: 309–310. doi:10.1017/S0305741000004124. ISSN 1468-2648.
  4. ^ Green, Stephen (1999-06-01). "Book Review: François Godement, The Downsizing of Asia (London: Routledge, 1999, 245 pp., £12.47 pbk.)". Millennium. 28 (2): 422–424. doi:10.1177/03058298990280020414. ISSN 0305-8298.
  5. ^ "Jean-Luc Domenach: L'Asie en danger, and François Godement: The Downsizing of Asia". CEFC. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
  6. ^ Puppatti, Frédéric (2013-06-01). "François Godement, Que veut la Chine ? De Mao au capitalisme (What does China want? From Mao to capitalism): Paris, Odile Jacob, 2012, 283 pp". China Perspectives. 2013 (2): 86–87. doi:10.4000/chinaperspectives.6208. ISSN 2070-3449.
  7. ^ Singh, Ekta (February 2017). "Book Review: Contemporary China: Between Mao and Market by Francois Godement". China Report. 53 (1): 65–68. doi:10.1177/0009445516677374. ISSN 0009-4455.
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