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Round table "What tools are needed to consider the risk of war in the Taiwan Strait?", October 20

25 October 2022

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As part of their "China and war: concepts and practices" series, IRSEM and Inalco are organizing a round-table discussion on tools and methods for thinking about the risk of war in the Taiwan Strait. The aim of this meeting is to establish a dialogue between disciplines, and between research and practice, in order to examine this risk. New configurations of conflict below the threshold require us to do things differently, which means first and foremost thinking differently. The aim of this round table is therefore to initiate reflection by bringing together experts from a variety of backgrounds, and to address theoretical approaches and practical tools as diverse as geopolitics, philosophy, history, fiction, analysis of representations, theorizations of hybrid warfare, OSINT, military analysis tools, anticipation...

October 20, 2022, 2:30 pm - 5 pm
Inalco, Maison de la recherche, Auditorium Dumézil
2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
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Intervenants:

Antoine BONDAZ, Research Fellow, Director of the FRS-KF Korea Program on Security and Diplomacy and Taiwan Program on Security and Diplomacy, FRS
Paul CHARON, Director of the "Intelligence, Anticipation and Hybrid Threats" domain, IRSEM
Sébastien COLIN, Senior Lecturer in Geography, IFRAE, Inalco
Romain GRAZIANI, Professor in Chinese Studies, IAO, ENS de Lyon
Édouard JOLLY, Researcher in Theory of Armed Conflict and Philosophy of War, IRSEM

Contact:
Mylène HARDY, MCF in Information and Communication Sciences, PLIDAM, Inalco
mylene.hardy@inalco.fr

Presentation of speakers:

Antoine Bondaz is director of the Taiwan program at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), and teaches at Sciences Po Paris. He advises administrations in France and Europe, and participates in numerous high-level dialogues with Asian officials. He has appeared before the French National Assembly and Senate, the European Parliament, the OECD, NATO and the UN. A former special advisor to the European Parliament (2017-2019), he was a research fellow at the Asia Centre, and participated in several government invitation programs for up-and-coming personalities in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and the United States. He holds a doctorate in political science (Sciences Po) and has studied in France, China, Korea and Taiwan.

Paul Charon is Director of the "Intelligence, Anticipation and Hybrid Threats" domain at IRSEM. With a PhD in Political Studies from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and an MBA from HEC, he has also trained in Chinese language and civilization (Université Paris Diderot and Beijing Language and Culture University, BLCU), rhetoric (Harvard, Université Paris-Nanterre), literature (Université Paris-Nanterre) and law (Université Panthéon-Assas). Before joining IRSEM, he worked for over ten years as an intelligence analyst and then as a foresight advisor for the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. He was a research associate at the Franco-Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Qinghua University in Beijing. His work focuses on China (intelligence services, informational warfare) and methods for analyzing intelligence and anticipating strategic surprises. He teaches at Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Panthéon-Assas University, IHEDN and the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid.

Sébastien Colin is a lecturer in geography at Inalco and a researcher at IFRAE (UMR 8043 - Inalco, Université Paris Cité, CNRS). He was a researcher seconded to the CEFC in Hong Kong from 2014 to 2018. His research interests cover China's geography, geopolitics and international relations, including border issues, China's maritime policy, the New Silk Roads and China-Korea relations.
In 2016, he edited a special issue of Chinese Perspectives devoted to Chinese maritime policy, "China's Policy in China Seas: Sovereignty, Security and Cooperation", and is the author of La Chine et ses frontières (Armand Colin, 2011) and La Chine, puissance mondiale (La Documentation française, 2015).

A graduate in philosophy and an alumnus of the rue d'Ulm, Romain Graziani is Professor of Chinese Studies at the École normale supérieure in Lyon. His work focuses on the intellectual and political history of ancient China (ancient and medieval periods). After publishing several essays and translations illuminating the literary and philosophical sources of Taoism, he has turned his attention to exploring the origins and perennial springs of Chinese governance, the history of the subject in political society and the relationship that political authority has with language.
To be published: Les lois et les nombres. Essai sur les ressorts de la politique chinoise (Gallimard, 2023).

Édouard Jolly is a researcher in the theory of armed conflict and philosophy of war at IRSEM. His work focuses on all components of organized violence, in particular the conduct of hostilities in contemporary armed conflicts. A civilian auditor with the 28th graduating class of the École de Guerre, he also attended the training of Army officers with the 132nd graduating class of the École de Guerre-Terre.

Each of his research projects is focused on the theory of armed conflict and the philosophy of war.

The round table will be moderated by Mylène Hardy, senior lecturer in information and communication sciences at Inalco (PLIDAM). Her research focuses on communication skills and organization in the mechanisms of collecting, analyzing, sharing and using information in different organizational contexts (learning processes, business intelligence, influence, particularly in an intercultural or mediatized setting). A former practitioner of French public diplomacy in China and trained in various SHS disciplines in France and China, she is interested in the epistemology of science, mixed methods and the dialogue between research and practice.