Event Overview:

Valérie Niquet will discuss her latest publication on the Indo Pacific during a chat with Robert Dujarric, followed by a discussion with the audience.

In the space of a decade, the Indo-Pacific concept has established itself as a key area for the interactions of China, the United States, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and the countries of Southeast Asia, not to mention France, the world's second-largest maritime power through its overseas territories.

The Indo-Pacific reflects the tipping point at the beginning of the 21st century. Once a passageway and point of contact between civilizations, it is now - from the Horn of Africa to the West American coast - a major geostrategic challenge. An economic engine driven by China's ambitions and the maritimization of the world, this zone accounts for 90% of container transport, with its resources and opportunities, but also its major rivalries. These tensions are strongly linked to competition between powers, to Xi Jinping's territorial claims, notably on Taiwan and in the China Sea, to climate change, but also to illegal fishing, piracy and the many forms of trafficking that develop there.

Speaker

Valérie Niquet is the director of the Japan Program at FRS (Fondation pour la recherche stratégique), and non-resident senior fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA). She was a lecturer at Keio University (Tokyo), where she taught the history and politics of Sino-Japanese relations, from 2014 to 2021.She has published extensively on strategic issues in Asia as well as on the evolutions of the Chinese political system. Her latest publications include, L'Indo-Pacifique: Nouveau centre du monde (Tallandier 2024), La Chine en 100 questions (Tallandier, 2021) and Taiwan face à la Chine, (Tallandier, 2022). She is also the author of a translation and essays of Sun Tzu's Art of War (Économica, 2011).  

She holds a doctorate from the University of Paris-Panthéon Sorbonne, a DEA in Chinese, University of Paris VII Jussieu, another DEA in Political Science, University of Paris 1 Sorbonne, and an MA in Chinese, University of Paris VII Jussieu as well an MA in Political Science, University of Paris 1 Sorbonne.

Moderator

Robert Dujarric is the co-director of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at TUJ. Prior to joining TUJ, he was a Council on Foreign Relations Hitachi Fellow in at the Research Institute of Economy and Trade, a researcher in Washington DC, and a junior investment banker in New York, Madrid, and London. He is the author of several books and articles. He obtained his AB at Harvard and his MBA at Yale.

https://www.tuj.ac.jp/about/faculty-staff/robert-dujarric.