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Alice Ekman

Dr Alice Ekman was the Senior Analyst in charge of the Asia portfolio at the EUISS. She covered foreign policy and security developments in the Asian region – including in China, the Korean Peninsula, Japan, India and ASEAN. At the EUISS, Alice also managed regular ‘Track 1,5’ dialogues with the EU’s partners in Asia and coordinated the EU member committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP EU).

Alice was formerly Head of China Research at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) in Paris. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University (Beijing), at the National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei) and the Asan Institute for Policy Studies (Seoul). She holds a Master's in International Relations, Economics, and Anthropology (China focus) from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a PhD in International Relations from Sciences Po and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. 

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    17September 2024
    Launch event: 10 ideas for the new team

    The EUISS team presented its ten ideas to reboot EU foreign policy to an audience of EU officials, experts and journalists. Available to re-watch.

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    30May 2024
    Webinar on contestation

    This LinkedinLive event explored the concept of "contestation", the new dynamic driving global politics. Available to re-watch.

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    18October 2023
    The EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: Where to and how?

    On 18 October, the EUISS together with the EEAS and the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union organised a roundtable discussion entitled the "EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: Where to and how?”.

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    13June 2023
    The Korea Institute of Defense Analyses' (KIDA) visit to the EUISS

    On 13 June, the EUISS hosted a delegation of the Korea Institute of Defense Analyses (KIDA) in Paris. 

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    26January 2023
    EU-Japan strategic dialogue

    On 26 January, the EUISS and the Genron NPO, the EU-Japan Strategic Dialogue organised a meeting which brought together experts from both sides to discuss the recent evolution of their respective security frameworks.

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    25November 2022
    COASI brainstorming meeting

    On November 25, the EUISS hosted a delegation of the Asia-Oceania Working Party (COASI) for a brainstorming session entitled "China’s 20th Party Congress: A Game Changer?".

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    20September 2022
    Alice Ekman at conference on smart cities

    Senior Analyst Alice Ekman participated in a conference organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Albania on the topic of “Cybersecurity risks and mitigations for smart and connected cities”. 

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    20September 2022
    Alice Ekman at the Brussels Korea Forum

    On 20 September, Alice Ekman participated in the 2022 edition of the Brussels Korea Forum, organized by the Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance.

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    20June 2022
    EU-Australia track 1.5 strategic dialogue

    This 5th session of the Strategic Dialogue brought together senior officials and experts to discuss the Russian aggression against Ukraine and analyse its implications for the security in Europe and the Indo-Pacific region.

  • 21January 2022
    2022 - What's to come? An EUISS film

    Our analysts look ahead at some of the major challenges facing the EU and the world this year.

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The War in Ukraine and the Growing North-South Divide: A European Union Perspective, The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), March 2023

Dernier Vol pour Pékin, Éditions de l'Observatoire, November 2022.

Le récit centralisé et offensif de la diplomatie publique chinoise, in Christian Lequesne (ed.) 'La puissance par l'image - Les Etats et leur diplomatie publique', Presses de Sciences Po, September 2021

Europe’s approach towards Asia: diversification in times of COVID-19, in CSCAP Regional Security Outlook 2021, December 2020.

Rouge vif, l’idéal communiste chinois, Éditions de l'Observatoire, February 2020.

China’s ‘new type of security partnership’ in Asia and beyond: a challenge to the alliance system and the ‘Indo-pacific’ strategy, Elcano, March 2019.

How Will Europe Handle Conceptual Divergence Between China and the US?, Global Asia, June 2019.

China’s Belt & Road and the World: Competing Forms of Globalization, IFRI, April 2019.

Dossier RAMSES 2019 : Chine, la nouvelle puissance, IFRI, September 2018.

China in the Mediterranean: An Emerging Presence, IFRI, February 2018.

La Chine dans le monde, CNRS Editions, 2018.