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History

French reserch on Asia

On the initiative of a group of researchers, supported by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research (MENESR), the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), the National Foundation of Political Science (FNSP) and the School of Higher Social Sciences Studies (EHESS), the Asia and Pacific Network was established on the 18th of June 2001.

It brings together and connects PhD students, researchers and experts working on fifty countries and regions in Asia and the Pacific — a scientific community of approximately 1,500 people in France.

Founding Committee

Maurice Aymard,
Academic Director, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, (EHESS); Head of the Maison des Science de l’Homme’s France-Maghreb exchange programme in Social Sciences and Humanities.

Jean-Luc Domenach
Academic Director, Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Internationales, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, (CERI-FNSP).

Alain Peyraube
Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, (CNRS), Academic Director, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, (EHESS).

Jean-François Sabouret
Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Director of the Réseau Asie – Imasie, UPS 2999 CNRS FMSH.

The Asia and Pacific Network: the creation of a federative structure

The four main goals of the Asia and Pacific Network are:

1 to carry out an inventory of those working on Asia and the Pacific, in order to bring researchers together, identify possible gaps in research on the region and mobilise them, ensuring optimal visibility and publicity for their work;

2 to develop conditions allowing researchers to work together on issues not limited to a single country, language or culture, but which concern many regions or even the entire Asian continent;

3 to draw specialists from other regions or disciplines towards Asia;

4 to create a hub of skills and knowledge in Europe, through the creation of a database for each country, which is structured so as to cooperate easily with similar bodies in Asia or North or South America.

This website site is funded by the
Ministry of Education
the National Centre for Scientific Research and the
Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.