Jean-Pierre Cabestan

Jean-Pierre Cabestan is Research Director at the CNRS attached to the French Research Institute for East Asia (IFRAE) at INALCO. He was from 2007 to 2021, Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Baptist University of Hong Kong, where he also was a Director for from 2007 to 2018. He is also an Associate Researcher at Asia Centre as well as at the Centre d'Études Français on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Appointed Officer of the Academic Palms in 2018, he has been a corresponding member of the French Academy of Overseas Sciences (ASOM) since 2019. From 2003 to 2007, he was attached to the UMR of Comparative Law at the University of Paris 1. From 1998 to 2003 he directed the Centre d'Études Français on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China as well as his publications, Perspectives chinoises and China Perspectives. He established in 1994 and until 1998 headed the Taipei Branch of CEFC. Recruited to the CNRS in 1983, he was then assigned to the Institute for Comparative Research for Institutions and Law, located in Ivry-sur-Seine. In 1990-1991, he taught Chinese politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He has notably published La politique internationale de la Chine. Entre intégration et volonté de puissance, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2010 (deuxième édition mise à jour et enrichie publiée en 2015) ; China and the Global Financial Crisis. A Comparison with Europe. (co-dirigé avec Jean-François Di Meglio et Xavier Richet), Routledge, Oxon & New York, 2012 ; Secessionism and Separatism in Europe an Asia. To have a state of one’s own. (co-dirigé avec Aleksandar Pavkovic), Routledge, Oxon & New York, 2013 ; Le système politique chinois. Un nouvel équilibre autoritaire, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2014 ; Political Changes in Taiwan Under Ma Ying-jeou. Partisan Conflict, Policy Choices, External Constraints and Security Challenges. (co-dirigé avec Jacques deLisle), Abingdon, Oxon & New York, Routledge, 2014, (en collaboration avec Jean-Raphaël Chaponnière) Tanzania-China All-Weather Friendship in the Era of Multipolarity, Saarbrücken, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017, Demain la Chine : démocratie ou dictature ?, Paris, Gallimard, 2018 (Médaille du Prix Guizot, 2019), publié en anglais (edition mise à jour) sous le titre China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship?, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, et Demain la Chine : guerre ou paix ?, Paris Gallimard, 2021. Ses principaux thèmes de recherche incluent les réformes politiques, institutionnelles et juridiques en Chine populaire, la politique étrangère et de sécurité chinoise, les relations Chine-Taiwan, le système politique taiwanais et les relations Chine - Afrique. Jean-Pierre Cabestan holds a PhD in law (University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1988) and has a degree in Chinese (Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations, University of Paris 7, Jussieu, 1979) and Japanese (undergraduate in oriental languages ​​and civilizations, University of Paris 7, Jussieu 1984). For a complete list of his publications, see: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jean-Pierre-Cabestan/290981197762185