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Françoise Mengin
Senior Research Fellow Sciences Po
mengin@ceri-sciences-po.org

Holds degrees in economics (Université Paris I), political science (IEP de Paris), Chinese (Taiwan National Normal University) and a Ph.D. in political science. Winner of the 2005 award of the Franco-Taiwanese Cultural Foundation (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences). Lecturer at the Institut National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales (INALCO) between 2002 and 2006 and at Sciences Po since 1994. Member of the editorial boards of China Information (University of Leiden, The Netherlands) and of the research group on Taiwan at CNRS. Founding member of FASOPO.
Her research focuses on the formation of the state in the Chinese world from a historical sociology perspective and is part of the CERI project “Historical Trajectories of the State.”

Research interests
- Imperial legacy and formation of the state in the Chinese world
- China/Taiwan relations

Bio en français

Publications
Books
  • Trajectoires chinoises, Taiwan, Hong Kong et Pékin, Paris, Karthala, 1998.
Editorships of books and special issues
  • Cyber China: Reshaping National Identities in the Age of Information, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, Coll. THe CERI series in International Relations and Political Economy, 2004.
  • Politics in China: Moving Frontiers, co-direction avec Jean-Louis Rocca, New York, Palgrave, Coll. THe CERI series in International Relations and Political Economy, 2002.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
  • "A Functional Relationship: Political Extensions to Europe-Taiwan Economic Ties", The China Quarterly, n° 169, March 2002, pp. 136-153.
  • "La politique chinoise de la France: Du mythe de la relation privilégiée au syndrome de la normalisation", Critique internationale, n° 12, juillet 2001, pp. 89-110.
  • "Freezing or Stalling the Status Quo in the Taiwan Strait? China Information, vol. XIV, n° 1, 2000, pp. 69-91.
  • "L'indépendantisme dans la démocratie taiwanaise", Critique internationale, n° 7, avril 2000, pp. 38-46.
  • "Taiwan ou la démocratisation sous tutelle : heur et malheur de la contrainte", Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, vol. 28, n° 3, septembre 1997, pp. 43-62.
  • "La Chine populaire au risque de la réunification nationale", Pouvoirs, n° 81, avril 1997, pp. 145-156.
  • "Taiwan's Non-Official Diplomacy", Diplomacy and Statecraft, vol. 8, n° 1, March 1997, pp. 228-248.
  • "Given a Unique Model of Bilateral Relations, can Taiwan be an Actor on the World Stage?", Issues and Studies, vol. 28, n° 10, October 1992, pp. 44-70.
  • "The Prospects for France-Taiwan Relations", Issues and Studies, vol. 28, n° 3, March 1992, pp. 38-59.
  • "Rethinking the Europe-Taiwan Relationship", The Pacific Review, vol. 4, n° 1, 1991, pp. 25-35.
Contributions to edited volumes
  • "A Tocquevillian Process: Taiwan’s Democratization and its Paradoxical Foundations", in Robert Ash and J. Megan Greene (eds), Taiwan in the 21st Century: Aspects and limitations of a Development Model, London and New York, Routledge 2007, pp. 232-248.
  • "A Pretence of Privatisation: Taiwan’s External Relations", in Béatrice Hibou (ed.), Privatising the State, London, Hurst, 2004, pp. 147-167.
  • "New Information Technologies and the Reshaping of Power Relations: An Approach to Greater China’s Political Economy", in Françoise Mengin (ed.), Cyber China: Reshaping National Identities in the Age of Information, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 1-16.
  • "The Changing Role of the State in Greater China in the Age of Information", in Françoise Mengin (ed.), Cyber China: Reshaping National Identities in the Age of Information, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 51-67.
  • "Introduction: Analyzing Changes through Overlapping Spheres" in Françoise Mengin and Jean-Louis Rocca (eds), Politics in China: Moving Frontiers, New York, Palgrave, 2002, pp. x-xxviii.
  • "Taiwanese Politics and the Chinese Market: Business's Part in the Formation of a State, or the Border as a Stake of Negotiations" in Françoise Mengin and Jean-Louis Rocca (eds), Politics in China: Moving Frontiers, New York, Palgrave, 2002, pp. 232-257.
  • "Popular Sovereignty in Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations" in Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard and Bertel Heurlin (eds), China’s Place in Global Geopolitics: International, Regional and Domestic Challenges, London and New York, Routledge Curzon, 2002, pp. 114-129.
  • "Taiwan: la question nationale et la démocratisation", in Christophe Jaffrelot (dir.), Démocraties d'ailleurs, Paris, Karthala, 2000, pp. 587-616.
  • "La construction d'un Etat-nation insulaire: centralisation politique et polarisation partisane", in Pierre Trolliet (dir.), Taiwan: économie, société et culture, Abbeville, Paillart, 1999.
  • "Une privatisation fictive: le cas des relations avec Taiwan", in Béatrice Hibou (dir.), La privatisation des Etats, Paris, Karthala, 1999, pp. 197-223.
  • "State and Identity", in Steve Tsang and Tien Hung-mao (eds), Democratisation in Taiwan: Implications for China, London, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 116-129.
  • "The Substitution of Conventional Diplomatic Relations: the Case of Taiwan", in Jan Melissen (ed.), Innovation in Diplomatic Practice, London, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 231-250.
  • "The Foreign Policy of the ROC on Taiwan since 1971: An Overview", in Marie-Luise Näth (ed.), The Republic of China on Taiwan in International Politics, Berne, Peter Lang, 1998, pp. 21-35.
  • "Le contre-exemple taiwanais", in Jean-Luc Domenach et David Camroux (dir.), L'Asie retrouvée, Paris, Seuil, 1997, pp. 278-300.
  • "A Chinese Puzzle: The Dynamics of Cross-Straits Relations", in Robert F. Ash, Richard Louis Edmonds, and Yuh-ming Shaw (eds), Perspectives on Contemporary China in Transition, Taipei, Institute of International Relations, 1997, pp. 145-159.
  • "La carte chinoise", in Pascal Boniface (dir.), La puissance internationale, Paris, Dunod, 1994, pp. 195-205.
  • "Given a Unique Model of Bilateral Relations Can Taiwan Be an Actor on the World Stage?", in Lin Bih-jaw (ed.), Contemporary China and the Changing International Community, Taipei, Institute of International Relations, 1993, pp. 147-169.
  • "The Prospects for France-Taiwan Relations", in Lin Bih-jaw (ed.), Asia and Europe: a Comparison of Developmental Experiences, Taipei, Institute of International Relations, 1993, pp. 101-124.
Other
  • "Gli imprenditori taiwanesi in Cina e la gestione dello status quo nello Stretto", Biblioteca della libertà, Anno XLII, n° 189, ottobre-dicembre 2007 , pp. 21-34
    Entrées "France (la Chine et la)", "Taiwan", "Taiwan (la République populaire de Chine et)" et "Un pays, deux systèmes" inThierry Sanjuan (dir.), Dictionnaire de la Chine contemporaine, Paris, Armand Colin, 2006, p. 112.
  • "La présence chinoise au Cambodge : Contribution à une économie politique violente, rentière et inégalitaire", Les Etudes du CERI, n° 133, février 2007, 43 pages.
  • Entrées "Chiang Kai-shek", "Chine" et "Chine (reconnaissance de la République populaire de)" in Claire Andrieu, Philippe Braud et Guillaume Piketty (dir.), Dictionnaire De Gaulle, Paris, Robert Laffont, 2006, p. 206.
  • "France China Policy: From the Myth of a Privileged Relationship to a Normalisation Syndrome", East-West Dialogue, vol. VI, n°2 et vol. VII, n°1, June 2002, pp. 99-125.
  • Entrée "Chine(s) (Taiwan et Hong Kong)" in Pascal Perrineau et Dominique Reynié (dir.), Le dictionnaire du vote, Paris, PUF, 2001.
  • "La rétrocession de Hong Kong et ses effets sur les échanges sino-taiwanais",  Le Courrier des pays de l'Est, n° 418, avril 1997, pp. 19-230
  • "Une élection historique", Politique internationale, n° 72, été 1996, pp. 13-200
  • "Pékin, Taipei et la partition chinoise", Le Courrier des pays de l'Est, n° 399, mai 1995, pp. 10-140
  • "L'impasse diplomatique sino-taiwanaise", Relations internationales et stratégiques, n° 15, automne 1994, pp. 150-155.
  • "Relations France-Chine: quel anniversaire s'agit-il de célébrer ?", Relations internationales et stratégiques, n° 14, été 1994, pp. 29-34.
  • "Taiwan : un changement politique sans lendemain ?", Universalia 2001, Encyclopeadia Universalis, pp. 270-273.
  • Entrée "Taiwan" (questions politiques) in l'Encyclopaedia Universalis (depuis les rééditions de 1997).
  • "L'évolution du système politique taiwanais", Historiens et Géographes, n° 355, novembre 1996, pp. 199-207.
  • "Taiwan: transition démocratique et montée des tensions avec la Chine", Ramsès 1997 (IFRI), pp. 114-115.
  • "Le recentrage de la société taiwanaise", Géopolitique, n° 46, Eté 1994, pp. 11-14.
  • "Taiwan: L'ouverture vers la Chine continentale", Universalia 1993, Paris, Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1993, pp. 304-307.
Working Papers
  • "De la concurrence des régimes de domination hégémonique sur l’île de Taiwan, à la reconduction des modes d’accomodement à la sujétion impériale", in Richard Banégas, Jean-François Bayart, Romain Bertrand,  Béatrice Hibou, Françoise Mengin, Julien Meimon (dir.), Legs colonial et gouvernance contemporaine, volume. II, Paris, FASOPO, multigr., 2006, pp. 66-116.
    "Combinatoires impériales 2 : L’aire chinoise" in Jean-François Bayart (dir.), Legs colonial et gouvernance contemporaine, Volume I, Paris, FASOPO, multigr., 2005, pp. 264-342

  • "Cambodge : la variable chinoise" in Jean-François Bayart (dir.), Le royaume concessionnaire : Libéralisation économique et violence politique au Cambodge, Paris, FASOPO, multigr., 2004, 39 p.
  • "Taiwan's Non-Official Diplomacy", Discussion Papers Diplomacy, University of Leicester, n° 5, May 1995, 21 pages
  • "Taiwan: entre démocratisation et politique des deux Chines", Notes de Recherche et Documents, Centre de Recherches et de Documentation sur la Chine Contemporaine, Paris, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, n° 8, juin 1994, pp. 8-23
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