François Godement is an expert on Chinese and East Asian strategic and international affairs and is a nonresident senior associate in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His current research focuses on trends and debates in China’s foreign policy and on Europe-China relations.

Godement is also Director of the Asia and China program at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and a research associate at Asia Centre, which he founded in 2005. He is the Editor of China Analysis, a quarterly analytical survey of Chinese news and debate published by Asia Centre and ECFR. In addition, Godement serves as a consultant to the Policy Planning Directorate of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 1985 to 2014, Godement was a professor of Political Sciences at Sciences Po Paris, a professor at the French Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, and created the Center for Asian Studies at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales. In 1995, he co-founded the European Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, which he co-chaired until 2008. He has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the Europe China Academic Network.

Last Updated: July 5, 2016

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02.15.18

Is American Policy toward China Due for a ‘Reckoning’?

Charles Edel, Elizabeth Economy & more
Former diplomats Kurt M. Campbell and Ely Ratner argue that United States policy toward China, in administrations of both parties, has relied in the past on a mistaken confidence in America’s ability to “mold China to the United States’ liking.”...

China Conducts Foreign Policy in Africa without Judgment

Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more
In this edition of the China in Africa podcast, we pull the focus back to look at China’s rapidly evolving foreign policy agenda in this new era of Western populism led by Donald Trump in the United States.François Godement, Director of the Asia and...

Uncertainty in China-Europe Relations

Paul Haenle & François Godement from Carnegie China
Economic relations between Europe and China remain highly salient due to the potential for increased trade and investment, as well as future cooperation on projects stemming from the Belt and Road initiative. Yet, in this podcast with Paul Haenle,...