LIBEAC entre dans le cadre du programme IRSES," International Research Staff Exchange Programme " (Action Marie Curie du Programme People/7ème PCRD).LIBEAC a démarré au 1er janvier 2013 et finit au 31/12/2017. Il développe les partenariats entre des équipes des institutions de recherche européenneset celles de Chine (eking University, Pékin) et du Japon (Hokkaido University, Sapporo). ll s'agit d'un projet multidisciplinaire proposant une analyse comparative détaillée de la philosophie politique, de l'économie politique et des pratiques commerciales, ainsi que de la philosophie du droit et des pratiques légales en Europe et en Chine. La dimension chinoise du liberalisme dans la modernisation fait explorer l'essor economique de la Chine mais aussi ses soucis face aux crises se multipliant (Stock Echange Bourse de Shanghai en 2015, changement climatique et pollution) impose de prendre position sur le libre-echange et le developpement capitalistique du pays en moment de crise. Les vues liberales sont-elles plus qu'ideologie occidentale?

Concepts of any kind of liberal civil society in an Asian and specifically East-Asian and Chinese environment raises issues about various types of market-enhanced economy. It brings in contemporary concerns such as those recently stressed by WTO when rebuking China's application to be reckoned as a “market economy”. They are to be examined in a historical perspective for the use of contemporary matters and debated in terms of interpretations and implementation of “Liberalism” in China. An essential tension makes sense between political and economic development, possibly confronting Chinese values. Inasmuch as some regard Liberalism as a Western Ideology, some structural correlation is often assumed between Economic Liberalism and Political Liberalism, and between Capitalism and Democracy: it goes at a par with the assumption that the more developed the economy in one country, the freer the persons living in this country. Now, does Liberalism truly work as a Western Ideology?