Philippe Le Corre
Associate fellow
Biographical information
Fields of expertise China's global rise Chinese outbound foreign direct investments Asia-Europe relations China-U.S. relations Great power competition in the Indo-Pacific Professional experience Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School (2017-2019). Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution (2014-2017). Senior Director (international affairs) responsible for the Shanghai office, Publicis Consultants (2007-2012). Analyst on Asian Affairs, Senior Adviser to the French Defense Minister (2004-2007). Other ongoing activities Joint Research Associate, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation & Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School (since 2019) Senior Research Fellow , Essec-Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation (since 2019). Associate in Research , John F. Fairbank Center on Chinese Studies, Harvard University (since 2018). Non-resident Senior Fellow , Asia Program/Europe Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington (since 2017).
Recent publications
Europe’s China Challenge: The Narrow Path for France, Germany, and the EU , Policy Institut, March 2023Not too far, not too close: The French way of handling China , Think China, 4 January 2023Europe's China-Lithuania moment , ISPI, septembre 2022Europe is cheering for Taiwan, but its hands are full with Ukraine , Nikkei Asia, 18 August 2022The Ukraine War's Impact on Sino-European Relations , Ash Center, May 2022France will not vacate the Indo-Pacific anytime soon , Nikkei Asia, 21 February 2022NATO looking East: the case of China , Nato Brief Series 10/2022, 5 January 2022Greece's ambivalent romance with China , EURACTIVFrance's Indo-Pacific moment , CEPAChina’s Influence in Southeastern, Central, and Eastern Europe: Vulnerabilities and Resilience in Four Countries , Carnegie Europe, October 13, 2021France’s Indo-Pacific “Third Way” , Carnegie Europe, October 7, 2021Europe’s Tightrope Diplomacy on China , Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceEurope in an Era of Growing Sino-American Competition , Routledge, 2021« China’s Challenging Year in Europe », Echo-Wall, November 10, 2020
« How Europe’s Big 3 Are Shifting on China », The Diplomat, August 14, 2020
« The EU’s New Defensive Approach to a Rising China », Carnegie Endowment for international Peace, July 1, 2020 China’s Emergence as a Power in the Mediterranean: Port Diplomacy and Active Engagement, Diplomacy and Statecraft, June 2021
« The EU’s New Defensive Approach to a Rising China », ISPI, June 29, 2020. « The EU and China in 2020: More Competition Ahead », Carnegie Endowment for international Peace, February 19, 2020. « The Case for Transatlantic Cooperation in Indo-Pacific » , Working Paper , Chinese influence and investment in Europe, Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, May 8, 2019. « Kazakhs Wary of Chinese Embrace as BRI Gathers Steam » , National University of Singapore/MEI paper « China’s Rise as a Geo-economic Influencer: Four European Case Studies » , Working Paper « Chinese Investments in European Countries: Experiences and Lessons for “One Belt, One Road” », in Maximilian Mayer (ed.), Rethinking the Modern Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiative under Scrutiny « China’s Rise: What about a Transatlantic Dialog? », Asia-Europe Journal « France, a Critical Player in a Weakened Europe », CUSE paper « China Abroad: The Long March to Europe », China Economic Quarterly China’s Offensive in Europe , Brookings Institution Press, mai 2016 (with Alain Sepulchre). « A New Special Relationship: China and the UK Rekindle their Ties », Foreign Affairs,
Webinars
China Series: Chinese Communist Party 20th Congress With Anthony Saich SIRENE N°68 : Ukraine : retour de la guerre en Europe | ESSEC Conferences China-EU Relations Amid the Ukraine Crisis Responding to China’s Influence in Southeastern, Central, and Eastern Europe Relations with Russia and China from a European perspective EU-China: What went wrong ? Le nationalisme et la mondialisation économiques dans l’après-COVID Italy and Greece: Two Case Studies for Chinese Involvement in Southern Europe What is the real cost of help from bad samaritans? China and Europe: what stakes in 2020? Europe and China in the times of COVID-19 , Institut d'études internationales de Barcelone, 2020.COVID-19 THE BIG QUESTIONS: WHAT IS THE REAL COST OF HELP FROM BAD SAMARITANS? , Université de Sydney, 2020.
