The Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS) and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) will hold a one-day conference: Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: re-defining cooperation formats to meet regional challenges on June 16, 2023. This international conference, in English, will be held at the Maison de la recherche of Inalco (9am - 6pm).

This event is the first international conference organized within the framework of the Observatory of Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific, a major research program supported by the Ministry for the Armed Forces, led by FRS in cooperation with Institut Montaigne and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) as well as Sciences Po and Inalco.

Two keynote speeches and three sessions, bringing together high-level speakers (government representatives, researchers and experts, parliamentarians, industrialists, etc.), will provide an opportunity to understand and analyze in depth the evolution and challenges of multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific.

• Session 1 - “Is too many the enemy of the good? Questioning the multiplication of multilateral formats”
• Session 2 - “A regional security architecture impossible to design? The reconfiguration of defense cooperation"
• Session 3 - “Who's behind multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific? Practitioner perspectives on regional cooperation”

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The final agenda will be shared with participants.

Due to the limited number of seats, participants will receive a confirmation e-mail from the organisers. Entrance to the maison de la Recherche will be on presentation of this e-mail.