Sébastien Colin

Contact

Email: sebastien.colin@inalco.fr

Affiliation

Associate Professor, INALCO (National Institute for Eastern Languages and Civilisations), Paris

Research fields

– Geography, geopolitics and international relations of China

Borders and border regions of China
China’s maritime policy (including China Seas issue and the development of maritime economy)
One Belt One Road
China-Koreas relations

Research project at the CEFC / China and the sea : Policies, borders and maritime economy (20th-21th centuries)

Curriculum

2007 – current Associate Professor at INALCO, Paris
2005 PhD in Geography, speciality geopolitics: “Délimitations et ouvertures des frontières chinoises. L’exemple des frontières sino-coréenne et sino-russe”

Publications

Books and special issues of academic journals

2017 Sébastien Colin et al. (eds), Images économiques du monde 2018, Paris, Armand Colin, 2017.

2017 Sébastien Colin (avec Nicolas Balaresque, Michel Bruneau, Jean-Yves Piboubès, Rémi Scoccimarro et Anne Viguier), Géopolitique de l’Asie, Paris, Nathan, 2017.

2017 Françoise Kreissler et Sébastien Colin (eds.), La France et la République populaire de Chine : contextes et répercussions de la normalisation diplomatique (1949-1972), Paris, L’Harmattan, 2017.

2016 Sébastien Colin (ed.), Special feature of China Perspectives, “China’s Policy in the China Seas: Sovereignty, Security, and Cooperation,” No. 2016/3.

2016 Sébastien Colin et al. (eds), Images économiques du monde 2017, Paris, Armand Colin, 2016.

2015 Sébastien Colin, La Chine, puissance mondiale, Paris, La Documentation Française, 2015.

2015 Sébastien Colin et al. (eds), Images économiques du monde 2016, Paris, Armand Colin, 2015.

2014 Sébastien Colin et al. (eds), Images économiques du monde 2015, Paris, Armand Colin, 2014.

2013 Sébastien Colin, Béatrice Giblin, (eds), Regards géopolitiques sur la Chine, special issue of the academic journal Hérodote, Paris, La Découverte, 2013.

2013 Sébastien Colin et al. (eds), Images économiques du monde 2014, Paris, Armand Colin, 2013.

2012 Sébastien Colin et al. (eds), Images économiques du monde 2013, Paris, Armand Colin, 2012.

2011 Sébastien Colin et al. (eds), Images économiques du monde 2012, Paris, Armand Colin, 2011.

2011 Sébastien Colin, La Chine et ses frontières, Paris, Armand Colin, 2011.

2008 Sébastien Colin (with J.-P. Cabestan, I. Facon et M. Meidan), Les relations Chine-Russie : entre convergences et méfiance, Paris, Unicomm, 2008.

Book chapters and articles

2018 “Practices and Experiences of Cooperation among States Bordering Enclosed or Semi-enclosed Seas: The Example of the China-South Korea Joint Fisheries Zone in the Yellow Sea”, in Fu Kuenchen (ed.), Proceedings of the Sino-European Symposium on International Law of the Sea, Xiamen, South China Sea Institute, Xiamen University, forthcoming.

2018 “Le mythe de la coopération halieutique entre la Chine et les Etats d’Asie du Sud-Est en mer de Chine du Sud,” in Nathalie Fau et Benoît de Tréglodé (eds.), Mers d’Asie du Sud-Est : coopérations, intégration et sécurité, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2018.

2017 “La politique de la Chine dans le Pacifique Sud” in Sémir Al Wardi, Jean-Marc Regnault, Jean-François Sabouret (eds), L’Océanie convoitée, Paris, CNRS éditions, Papeete, Api Tahiti éditions, 2017.

2016 “Les mers lointaines : nouvelles frontières de la puissance halieutique chinoise ?” (Distant seas: A new frontier of China’s fishing power?), Hérodote, n° 163, 4e trimestre, 2016.

2016 “Editorial“, in Sébastien Colin (ed.), “China’s Policy in China Seas: Sovereignty, Security and Cooperation“, special feature of China Perspectives, No. 2016/3.

2016 “Litiges insulaires et enjeux géopolitiques en mer de Chine du Sud” (Territorial disputes and geopolitical stakes in South China Sea), in Béatrice Giblin (ed.), Les conflits dans le monde. Approche géopolitique (Conflicts in the world: A geopolitical approach), 2nd ed., Paris, Armand Colin, 2016, pp. 263-276.

2016 “China, The US, and the Law of the Sea,” China Perspectives, No. 2016/2, pp. 57-62.

2015 “La Chine et ‘sa’ mer de Chine du Sud : concrétisation d’un projet géopolitique hérité” (China and “its” South China Sea: Materialization of an inherited geopolitical project), in Eric Mottet, Barthélémy Courmont, and Frédéric Lasserre (eds), La Chine et le Monde. Quelles nouvelles relations, quels nouveaux paradigmes ? (China and the World. What new relationships, what new paradigms?), Québec, Presses Universitaires du Québec, 2015, pp. 137-147.

2015 “Corée (avant 1953)”, “Corée du Nord” et “Corée du Sud”, dans Gildas Simon (ed.), Dictionnaire des migrations internationales. Approche géohistorique, Paris, Armand Colin, 2015.

2014 “La perception par la Chine des révolutions arabes : souverainisme, protection des intérêts économiques et défis internes” (The Chinese perception of the Arab révolutions: Sovereignism, protection of the economic interests, and domestic challenges), in M’hamed Oualdi, Delphine Pagès-El Karoui, and Chantal Verdeil (eds), Les ondes de choc des révolutions arabes (The shockwaves of the Arab révolutions), Beirut, Damas, Presses de l’Ifpo, 2014, pp. 105-125.

2013 “Le défi rural du ‘rêve chinois’,” in Sébastien Colin and Béatrice Giblin (eds), Hérodote (Regards géopolitiques sur la Chine), Paris, La Découverte, 2013, pp. 9-26.

2013 “The participation of Yunnan Province in the GMS : Chinese strategies and impacts on border cities,” in Nathalie Fau, Sirivanh Khonthapane, and Christian Taillard (eds), Transnational Dynamics in Southeast Asia: the Greater Mekong Subregion and Malacca Strait Economic Corridors, Singapore, ISEAS, 2013.

2013 “Swinging borders. The Sino-Korean border during the Sunshine Policy,” in Valérie Gelézeau, Koen De Ceuster, and Alain Delissen (eds), De-Bordering Korea: Tangible and intangible legacies of the Sunshine Policy, London, New York, Routledge, 2013, pp. 68-84.

2013 “Coopération frontalière entre la Chine et la Corée du Nord : projets, limites et perceptions sud-coréennes,” in Frédérik Douzet, Béatrice Giblin (eds), Des frontières indépassables ? Des frontières d’État aux frontières urbaines, Paris, Armand Colin, 2013, pp. 73-87.

Oral papers

2018 Colin, Sébastien, “Chinese illegal fishing in the Yellow Sea: Causes, consequences and control policies”, paper presented at the international symposium China and the sea: Maritime economy and the challenge of sea and ocean sustainability, organized by the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 7-8, 2018.

2018 Colin Sébastien, “La Chine face au défi de la transition énergétique : politiques publiques et impacts socio-spatiaux”, communication présentée dans le cadre du séminaire de recherche La transition énergétique : convergences et divergences des pratiques territoriales à l’échelle mondiale, HEIG-VD, Lausanne, 25-26 avril, 2018.

2018 Colin, Sébastien, “The Fisheries Issue between China and South Korea in the Yellow Sea: Another Type of Maritime Conflict”, paper presented at the CARIFS 2^nd International Conference Conflict and Integration, organised by the CARIFS, Yonsei University, Seoul, April 20, 2018.

2018 Colin, Sébastien, “La province du Fujian et la Route maritime de la Soie du XXIe siècle”, communication présentée dans le cadre du colloque international Belt and Road Initiative : quelle géopolitique des nouvelles routes de la soie ?, Québec, Université Laval, 22-23 mars, 2018.

2017 Colin, Sébastien, “La Chine et ses frontières : sécuriser l’Etats-nation, affirmer la puissance”, communication présentée dans le cadre du colloque international Les frontières et les marges terrestres et maritimes de la Chine : quels enjeux géopolitiques ?, Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, 22-23 novembre, 2017.

2017 Colin, Sébastien, “Entre localisme et ‘recolonisation’ : caractéristiques et évolutions récentes de la relation entre Pékin et Hong Kong”, communication présentée dans le cadre du colloque international Les frontières et les marges terrestres et maritimes de la Chine : quels enjeux géopolitiques ?, Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, 22-23 novembre, 2017.

2016 Colin, Sébastien, « China’s Reclamation Works and Constructions in Spratly Islands: Between a Long-Term Strategy and Reaction/Anticipation », paper presented at the round table Xi Jinping’s China Facing Northeast and Southeast Asia, co-organised by The Asan Institute for Policy Studies (Séoul) et l’Institut de recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire (IRSEM, Paris), Séoul, 18 October, 2016.

2016 Colin Sébastien, « Fishing in the South China Sea: A Source for Cooperation between China and Southeast Asia? », paper presented at The 8th South China Sea International Conference: Cooperation for Regional Security and Development, organised by the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV), the Foundation for East Sea Studies and the Lawyer Association of Vietnam, Nha Trang (Viet Nam), 14-15 November, 2016.

2016 Colin, Sébastien, “Practices and Experiences of Cooperation among States Bordering Enclosed or Semi-Enclosed Seas: the Example of the China-South Korea Joint Fisheries Zone in the Yellow Sea”, paper presented at the Sino-European Symposium on International Law of the Sea, organized by the South China Sea Institute of Xiamen University, Xiamen, June 29-30, 2016.

2016 Colin, Sébastien, “The Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing issue in Eastern Asia: Causes, Consequences and Control Policies”, paper presented at the High-Level Workshop: Maritime Security and Development: International Cooperation and European-Asian Experience-Sharing, co-organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Viet Nam and the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam, Halong (Viet Nam), June 9-10, 2016.

2016 Colin, Sébastien, “China and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: A lot of objectives for which concrete achievements?”, paper presented at the International Conference BRICS New Financial and Investment Initiatives: Economic and Geopolitical Implications, co-organized by the CEI International Affairs of the University of Barcelona and ASIEs of the INALCO-University of Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Barcelona, May 5-6, 2016.

2016 Colin, Sébastien, “China and the South China Sea (East Sea): The realization of an inherited geopolitical project”, paper presented at the Hanoi France-Vietnam Track II on the East Sea, between the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) and the Institute for Strategic Research at the Military Academy in Paris (IRSEM), Hanoi, January 5-7, 2016.

2015 Colin, Sébastien, « La politique maritime de la Chine dans le Pacifique Sud » (The Chinese maritime policy in the South Pacific), paper presented at the symposium L’Océanie convoitée (The coveted Oceania), organized by the Réseau Asie, EHESS, Paris, 14-15 September 2015.

2015 Colin, Sébastien, « 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: what implications for the Sino-Korean maritime relations? », paper presented at the international symposium 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and Strategic Interaction Within the Asian Community, organized by the Department of Diplomacy and the Center for Strategic and Peace Studies, China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, April 11, 2015.

2014 Colin, Sébastien, « The Impact of Chinese Border Opening Policy and GMS Integration Programme on Three Border Cities: Hekou, Ruili and Jinghong », paper presented at the 4th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network: Activated Borders: Re-openings, Ruptures and Relationships, Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, December 8, 2014.

2014 Colin, Sébastien, « Chinese Policy toward the South China Sea », paper presented at the 10th Sino-European Strategic Dialogue, co-organized by the CICIR (Beijing), Asia Centre (Paris) and the IHEDN (Paris), Beijing, December 2, 2014.

2013 Colin, Sébastien, « Les mers de Chine : nouvelles frontières de la puissance chinoise ? » (The China Seas: New frontiers of the Chinese power?), conférence donnée dans le cadre du 24e Festival International de Géographie « La Chine, une puissance mondiale »/paper presented at the 24th International Festival of Geography « China, a world power », Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (France), 5 October 2013.

2012 Colin, Sébastien, « La Chine et ses frontières maritimes : protéger l’État-nation et affirmer la puissance » (China and its maritime borders: protecting the nation-state and asserting the power), conférence donnée dans le cadre de l’École d’été du CERIUM « Chine, superpuissance »/paper presented at the CERIUM Summer School « China, superpower », Université de Montréal/University of Montréal, 11 July 2012.

2012 Colin, Sébastien, « Enjeux énergétiques et délimitations maritimes dans les mers de Chine orientale et méridionale » (Energy issues and maritime delimitations in the East and South China Seas), communication donnée dans le cadre du colloque L’espace maritime : nouveau théâtre des relations internationales du XXIe siècle ?/paper presented at the symposium The maritime space: New theater of the 21st century international relations?, INALCO, Paris, 3 avril 2012.

Organization of academic events

2018 Organizer of the international symposium “China and the sea: Maritime economy and the challenge of sea and ocean sustainability“, in collaboration with the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Consulate general of France in Hong Kong and Macao, Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, June 7-8, 2018.

2016 Organizer of the workshop « China and the South China Sea: U-shaped line, maritime Silk Road, and strategic rivalry with the US », in conclusion of the seminar series China and the China Seas: Chinese maritime policy and geopolitical situation in the maritime spaces of East Asia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), February 24, 2016.

2015-2016 Organizer of the seminar series China and the China Seas: Chinese maritime policy and geopolitical situation in the maritime spaces of East Asia, six seminars organized from April 2015 to February 2016 at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU).

2013 Co-organizer of the symposium “La France et la République populaire de Chine : les contextes de la normalisation (1950-1964)” (France and People’s Republic of China: the contexts of the normalization, 1950-1964), INALCO, Paris, 13 novembre 2013.

2013 Organizer of the round table “Le territoire chinois, ses périphéries et ses frontières” (The Chinese territory, its peripheries and its borders), dans le cadre du 24e Festival International de Géographie « La Chine, une puissance mondiale »/in the framework of the 24th International Festival of Geography « China, a world power », Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (France), 4 octobre 2013.

2011 Co-organizer of the International Symposium “Dynamiques aux frontières de la Chine, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle/The Dynamics of China’s Borderlands, 18th-21st Centuries”, Paris, EHESS, 24-25 octobre 2011.