Profile

Yves is serving as Dean and Distinguished Professor at TSE. He obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University (2002) and is a Harvard Academy Scholar.

He is a graduate of the School of Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC, Paris) and graduated with a Master in International Management (MIM) from the CEMS Global Alliance in Management Education.

Prior to joining TSE, Yves has been a Professor of Political Science, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research, and Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia. In 2014-2016, Yves founded the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) and served as his first co-director.

Yves is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and at the University of Alberta’s China Institute and visiting professor at Tokyo University’s Graduate School of Public Policy (GrASPP). In the past, he has held other visiting professor positions at Sciences Po Paris, GRIPS (Tokyo), National Chengchi University (Taiwan) and the Jakarta School of Public Policy (Indonesia).

His research focuses on the global order, the comparative political economy of East Asia, and global economic and environmental governance.

Yves is a native of Bretagne (France). In his spare time, together with his wife Yvonne, Yves grows heirloom apples and roses. Both are also whale lovers and photographers. As well, they greatly enjoy tasting local teas, discovering century-old trees, and learning from the wisdom of ancient civilizations across Asia and beyond.

Research Interests

• Global Order in Transition
• Managing Disruption: the Impact of Cognitive Processes on Strategic Interactions
• Global South and Global Order
• East Asian International Relations
• China and Global Order, China-US, China-Canada, China-Japan Relations
• Japan and Global Order
• Global Economic and Environmental Governance, Systemic Risk Governance
• Comparative Political Economy of East Asia (Japan, Korea, China)
• East Asian Politics, Japanese Politics, Chinese Politics, etc…
• Global and regional pandemic governance
• Political Economy of Twin Industrial Revolutions (AI/digital and green technology)

Awards and Honors

• Harvard Academy Scholar (in residence 2004-2006)
• Fulbright Scholar (1995-1996)
• Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite (knight of the order of merit) by order of the French President
• Member of the Advisory Committee on the Indo-Pacific Strategy of Canada to the Foreign Minister (2022)
• International Steering Committee Member, Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD)

Selected Publication

Books and Edited books

• Zaki Laïdi and Tiberghien, Yves. Forthcoming. The Hedgers: How The Global South Navigates the Sino-American Competition (Cambridge University Press, Element Series in Indo-Pacific Security Studies).
• Shiro Armstrong and Tiberghien, Yves, eds. Forthcoming. The Global Economic Order at the Brink: Asia and the Economics, Technology and Security Nexus. Canberra: ANU Press.
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2021. The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox. Element Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Tiberghien, Yves, ed. 2013. Leadership in Global Institution Building: Minerva’s Rule. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics Series. London and New York: Palgrave McMillan.
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2012. L’Asie et le futur du Monde. Paris: Presses de Science Po. Collection Nouveaux Débats.
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2007. Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea. A volume in the series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy edited by Peter J. Katzenstein. Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London

Selected Journal Articles:

• Tiberghien, Yves and Park, Sun Ryung. 2025. “Green Industrial Policy Race in Asia Quickens Despite US Retreat” East Asia Forum Quarterly. 17:3, July/September.
• Massot, Pascale and Yves Tiberghien. 2024. A Wave of Indo-Pacific Strategies and Canada’s Positioning: Reckoning with Global Power Rebalancing and the Crisis of Hyperglobalization, Papers in Political Economy, 2, 50, https://doi.org/10.4000/12ba5
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2024. “Lessons from the Frontline: The Burgeoning Security and Economic Race in the Indo-Pacific”, International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis., 1, 100, https://doi.org/10.1177/00207020241276099
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2023. Kishida’s Climate Policy and Opportunities for U.S.-Japan Cooperation. Asia Policy18.1. January.
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2022. “Disrupted Order: G20 Global Governance at a Time of Geopolitical Crisis,” Global Summitry.
• Allan, J. I., Roger, C. B., Hale, T. N., Bernstein, S., Tiberghien, Y., & Balme, R. (2021). Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design. Political Studies, 0(0), 00323217211049294. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217211049294
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2020. "Covid-19, US-China Conflict, and Multilateralism in East Asia” in Jeju Forum Journal.  Volume 1. Sept 2020. Pp.41-50 - 2020 Jeju Forum Journal.pdf

• Tiberghien, Yves. 2014. “An Uncertain World: Rising Powers, Systemic Risk, and the Role of Institutions and Entrepreneurship: a Response to Brantly Womack’s ‘China’s Future in a Multinodal Order.” Pacific Affairs. Volume 87, No. 2. June 2014.
• Miranda Schreurs and Yves Tiberghien.2007. “Multi-Level Reinforcement: Explaining European Union Leadership in Climate Change Mitigation”. Global Environmental Politics, 7 (4), 19-46.https://doi.org/10.1162/glep.2007.7.4.19
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2009. Competitive Governance and the Quest for Legitimacy in the EU: the Battle over the Regulation of GMOs since the mid‐1990s. Journal of European Integration, 31(3), 389–407. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036330902782246

Edited Online Collections:

• Park, Sun Ryung, and Tiberghien, Yves. 2023. “The Systemic Impact of the Twin Digital and Green Tech Revolutions in the Indo-Pacific: Toward a New Industrial Policy Race.” Overview and Working Papers Collection. Vancouver: SPPGA / Center for Japanese Research.
• Tiberghien, Yves, ed. 2020. “Japan’s Leadership in the Liberal International Order: Impact and Policy Opportunities for Partners.” Paper Collection. Vancouver: SPPGA/ Center for Japanese Research.

Selected Book Chapters:

• Tiberghien, Yves. 2024. « Peut-on mesurer le soft power? » in Frederic Lasserre, Eric Mottet, and Barthelemy Courmont, eds. 2024. Le Soft Power en Asie. Quebec: Presses de l’Universite du Quebec. Pp. 41-52.
• Park, Sun Ryung and Yves Tiberghien. 2023. “The Green Tech Race Is a Story for the Entrepreneurial State,” in Filippo Fasulo, ed. The EU Indo-Pacific Bid: Sailing Through Economic and Security Competition. Milan: ISPI. Pp. 99-139. https://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/the-eu-indo-pacific-bid-sailing-through-economic-and-security-competition-125901
• Tiberghien Yves. 2022. “Epilogue: The Lessons from Covid-19 Management in Vietnam and Post-pandemic Prospects.” In Tran, Thi Ahn-Dao ed. Rethinking Asian Capitalism: The Achievements and Challenges of Vietnam Under Doi Moi. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98104-4_16
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2021. “The EU as Pivotal Player in the Growing China–U.S. Conflict” in Bibek Chand and Lukas K. Danner, Eds. New Challenges and Opportunities in European-Asian Relations: Navigating an Assertive China and a Retrenching U.S. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2020. “The Battle over GMOs in Korea and Japan” in Esarey, Ashley, Mary Alice Haddad, Stevan Harrell, and Joanna Lewis Ed. Eco-Developmentalism in East Asia. Seattle: University of Washington Press. November.
• Tiberghien, Yves. 2014. "Thirty Years of Neo-Liberal Reforms in Japan" in S. Lechevalier (ed.) The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism, London: Routledge. February. Pp. 26-55.
• Tiberghien, Yves and Miranda Schreurs. 2010. “High Noon in Japan: Embedded Symbolism and post-2001 Kyoto Protocol Politics.” in Harrison, Kathryn and Lisa Sundstrom eds, Global Commons, Domestic Decisions: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change. Boston: MIT Press. Pp. 139-168. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep.2007.7.4.70
• Schreurs, Miranda & Tiberghien, Yves. 2010. “European Union Leadership in Climate Change: Mitigation through multilevel reinforcement.” In Global Commons Domestic Decisions: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change (pp. 23-66). The MIT Press.

Teaching

• Perspectives in International Political Economy: The Age of Disruption
• International Relations of East Asia