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Sujet: Réunion Zoom de Isabelle VAGNOUX
Heure: 28 nov. 2025 03:30 PM Paris
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https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/96953386800?pwd=9oK19QszB9c3LVfBHJbTIKvXBURePN.1
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The intermestic dimension in relations with (democratic) Indo-Pacific countries
The competition for global primacy among major powers is leading to the bloc formation of the world economy and increased geopolitical tensions across trade, diplomacy, and security. These moves are sending waves of alarm across the globe and challenging the multilateral world order particularly pronounced changes in the Indo-Pacific region. This region is emerging as a dynamic geopolitical balance, accelerating the realignment of intra-regional relationships and the reconfiguration of diplomatic and security strategies.
The evolving geopolitical landscape serves as a crucial external factor shaping the foreign policies of regional states as well as the western world. However, foreign policies cannot be fully understood as mere reactions to external pressures. Rather, shifts in the international order play a constitutive role, interacting with domestic political structures and discursive frameworks to inform and shape foreign policy orientations. Foreign policy is actively shaped through interaction with domestic political conditions, including governing ideologies, industrial structures, public opinion, and interest groups. These factors, alongside the roles of political and institutional actors, drive the realignment of key foreign policy directions—such as diplomatic and security strategies, economic and industrial policies—within the domestic context. This interaction can be more precisely explained through an intermestic approach, which transcends the boundaries between the international and the domestic, with interaction between the two is increasingly evolving into an inseparable relationship.
The webinar will explore the factors influencing foreign policy decisions in the English-speaking world toward the (democratic) Indo-Pacific countries, and among these countries through a multi-layered analysis, based on this international-domestic linkage structure, while also assessing the extent to which their engagement in the Indo-Pacific aligns with or reinforces their domestic democratic institutions.
This webinar will take place 15:30-17:30
Speakers:
• Dr Jiyu Choi (DAIP/LERMA, AMU)
« From Norms to Security: Member states’ vision and the EU in the Indo-Pacific »
Dr Jiyu Choi is a postdoctoral researcher in the DAIP (Democratic Alliance in the Indo-Pacific) Project at the institute LERMA (UR853) of the Aix-Marseille University, specializing in international relations, with a focus on EU-Northeast Asia. Her work seeks to understand international relations through the international norms such as democracy, human rights and peace. She has published several analyses on these topics, including CEIAS Insights (“Developing security relations between South Korea and the EU under a like-minded paradigm,”2025) and the Diplomat (“US About-Face on Ukraine Sparks Diplomatic Dilemma for South Korea,” 2025), and regularly contributes to public discussion on EU-Asia relations.
• Dr Srdjan Vucetic (University of Ottawa, Canada)
« Ranking Middle Powers: Canada in the Indo-Pacific »
Dr Srdjan Vucetic is Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, and Co-Director (Security) of the Canadian Defence and Security Network. He specializes in American/Canadian foreign and defence policy, international politics and security. He is the author of The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations (Stanford University Press, 2011) and Greatness and Decline: National Identity and British Foreign Policy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021). His work explores how ideas of race, identity, and power shape Western foreign policy and international order.
• Prof. Matthew Graves (LERMA, AMU)
« The French (Dis)Connection in Australia’s Indo-Pacific Relations »
Prof. Matthew Graves is Professor of contemporary British history and Commonwealth studies at the University of Aix-Marseille. His research focuses on the relationship between space, power, and memory in British and Australasian politics in the 20th and 21st centuries. He is co-editor of the Contemporary Societies series published by Presses universitaires de Provence and Liverpool University Press.
Chair: Dr Michael Stricof (LERMA, AMU)