Karoline Postel-Vinay
Senior Research Fellow Sciences Po
postelvinay@ceri-sciences-po.org - Tel: +33 1 58 71 70 48

Holds a Master’s degree in Japanese studies from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and a Ph.D. in international relations from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP). Lived in Japan for four years as a visiting fellow with the Department of International Relations, National University of Tokyo (Todai) and a grantee of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Member of the advisory board of the Japanese studies journal Ebisu and co-editor of the « Global Order Studies » book series published by Routledge, London. Member of the "Re-Thinking Europe in a Non-European World" (RENEW) research network based at Oxford University. Contributor to working group 1 of the IDEAS project financed by the European Research Council.
Member of the editorial board of Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, a Sciences Po-CERI electronic publication. Scientific advisor of the CERI website "G8/G20, New World, New Debates".

Teaching
- Sciences Po: "Regional Dimensions of Integration" (Master of International Relations)

Research interests
- New actors and new modes of international cooperation, in particular the G20.
- De-centered (non-European) analysis of the IR regulation system
- Historical development of "area studies".
- War crimes and crimes against humanity during the Pacific War.

Bio en français

Publications
Books
  • Le G20, laboratoire d’un nouvel ordre mondial ?, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2011.
  • L'Occident et sa bonne parole. Nos représentations du monde de l’Europe coloniale à l’Amérique hégémonique, Paris, Flammarion, 2005.
  • Corée, au coeur de la nouvelle Asie, Paris, Flammarion, 2002.
  • Le Japon et la nouvelle Asie, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 1997.
  • La révolution silencieuse du Japon, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1994.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
  • "History on Trial: French Nippon Foundation Sues Scholar for Libel to Protect the Honor of Sasakawa Ryōichi," The Asia-Pacific Journal, April 26, 2010. 
  • "Le Japon, une puissance régionale paradoxale", Questions Internationales, printemps 2008.
  • "The Historicity of the International Region. Revisiting the "Europe and the Rest" Divide", Geopolitics, hiver 2007.
  • "Le régionalisme dans les relations internationales" dans Relations Internationales, Notices de la Documentation Française, Paris, 2006.
  • "La géoéconomie et la nouvelle géopolitique", Géoéconomie, 22, été 2002.
  • "Géographie et pouvoir", Critique internationale, 10, janvier 2001, p. 51-58.
Contributions to edited volumes
  • "Writing 1989: a World Narrative?", in C. Lequesne and J. Rupnik, 1989 as World Event?, London, Routledge, 2011.
  • "Creating international regions: the spatial expression of power", in D. Nabers and N. Godehardt, Regions and Power, London Routledge, 2010.
  • "Gouvernance régionale et crise mondiale", in L’état du monde, Paris, La Découverte,  2009."The historicity of European normative power" in Z. Laidi (ed.), The Reception of Europe, Londres, Routledge, 2008.
  • "The historicity of European normative power" in Z. Laidi (ed.), The Reception of Europe, Londres, Routledge, 2008.
  • "Le régionalisme au défi des nationalismes", in L’état du monde 2008, Paris, La Découverte, 2007.
  • "Le Japon entre histoire globale et histoire asiatique" dans J-F. Sabouret (dir.), La dynamique du Japon, Paris, Editions Saint-Simon, 2005.
  • "L'Asie définie par l'extérieur", in Les nouvelles organisations régionales en Asie orientale, Paris, Reclus, 2002.
  • "The spatial transformation of international relations", in M.-C. Smouts (dir.), The New International Relations, Londres, Hurst, 2001.
  • "L'héritage démocratique japonais", in C. Jaffrelot (dir.), Démocraties d'ailleurs, Paris, Karthala, 2000.
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