Fellow Researchers Profile
Celine Pajon
International Research Fellow
Head of Japan Research, Center for Asian Studies, IFRI
Expertise
- Japanese domestic affairs, foreign and defense policy
- U.S.-Japan strategic relationship
- International relations in Northeast Asia
- Japan-India relationship
Working papers, Papers and Reports
Profile
Education
| 2005.09 - 2006.08 | Research student in OSIPP (Osaka School of International Public Policy), Osaka University, Japan. Topic of research: Strategic realignment and U.S. military bases in Okinawa |
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| 2001.10 - 2003.10 | Master on International Relations, Department of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva. |
| 2000.09 - 2001.08 | Exchange student at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. |
| 2000.06 | Graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Lyon,in the International section. Special Degree on Contemporary Asia. |
Publications
- “AUKUS, the Indo-Pacific and France’s role: Fluctuat Nec Mergitur”, Article, Russian International Affairs Council, 22 September 2021
- (with Eva Pejsova) “A Region of Flashpoints? Security in the Indo-Pacific”, CSDS Policy Brief, 15/2021, September 2021
- “France: The leading European power in the Indo-Pacific”, in James Bowen (Ed.), Europe’s Indo-Pacific Embrace: Global partnerships pour regional resilience, Perth US-Asia Center, Konrad Adenauer Shiftung, September 2021.
- (with Eva Pejsova) “EU-Japan Relations: Moving Forward”, CSDS Policy Brief, 6/2021, May 2021.
- “ Chine/Japon : redéfinir les termes de la coexistence”, Politique Etrangère, n°2, April 2021.
- “The EU-Japan partnership in the Indo-Pacific: opportunities and challenges”, Analysis of Elcano Royal Institute, March 2021
- “France’s Indo-Pacific Strategy and the Quad Plus”, The Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Vol. 3, No. 5, Winter 2020/21
- “Japan’s Economic Diplomacy in Africa: Between Strategic Priorities and Local Realities”, Notes de l'Ifri, December 2020
- “What Would Suga’s Indo-Pacific Strategy Look Like?”, Commentary, ISPI, 5 October 2020.
- “Japan in the 2019 G20 and G7 Summits: A Key Partner for Europe?”, Global Policy, Essay, May 2020.
- “Europeans and Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific: Demonstrating a More Proactive Commitment”, Céline Pajon and Masashi Nishihara, eds., “East Asia Security in Flux. What Regional Order Ahead?”, Études de l'Ifri, May 2020.
- “Japan and the Indo-Pacific: Shaping a hybrid regional order”, War on the Rocks, 18 December 2019.
- “Japan in South East Asia: Looking for a Balanced Indo-Pacific”, Commentary, ISPI, 11 December 2019.
- “L’alliance nippo-américaine, le Japon reprend la main” [The US-Japan alliance: Japan takes initiative”, in Guibourg Delamotte (Dir.), Le Japon et le monde [Japan and the world], CNRS Editions, November 2019.
- “La diversification des partenariats de sécurité du Japon : des coopérations légitimes et efficaces ?” [The diversification of Japan’s security partnerships: legitimate and efficient cooperations?], Champs de Mars, n°32, September 2019, pp. 77-101.
- “Macron in Japan: Upgrading the Franco-Japanese Strategic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific”, The Diplomat, 26 June 2019.
- “France and the Indo–Pacific: Devising a Strategy”, Paper presented at the Quad-Plus Dialogue, Sydney, Australia, February 20-21, 2019.
- “France and Japan: the Indo-Pacific as a springboard for a strategic partnership”, in Luis Simón & Ulrich Speck, “Natural partners? Europe, Japan and security in the Indo-Pacific », Elcano Policy Papers, Real Instituto Elcano, November 2018.
- [with Isabelle Saint-Mézard] “Asia–Africa Growth Corridor at the crossroads of business and geopolitics”, East Asia Forum, 8 November 2018.
- [with Isabelle Saint-Mézard] “The Japan-India Economic Partnership: A Politically-Driven Process”, Asie.Visions 100, September 2018.
- [with Rémy Hémez] “Japan-South Korea security cooperation – Sisyphus getting muscles?”, The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Spring 2018.
- “Japan-Russia: The Limits of a Strategic Rapprochement”, Russie.NEI Visions, Ifri, October 2017.
- “What Role for Japan in Africa’s Security After Withdrawal from South Sudan?”, The Diplomat, 24 May 2017.
- “Japan’s Security Policy in Africa: The Dawn of a Strategic Approach?”, Asie.Visions 93, Ifri, May 2017.
- “Japan and France, Slowly but Surely Moving Forward on Security Cooperation”, The Diplomat, 6 February 2017.
- “Japan’s Coast Guard and Maritime Self Defense Forces in the East China Sea. Can a black and white system adapt to a gray zone strategy?”, Asia Policy, n°23, January 2017
- “Japan's Coast Guard and Maritime Self-Defense Force: Cooperation among Siblings”, Maritime Project Awareness, 1 December 2016.
- “Japan and its Alliance with the US: Dynamics and evolutions toward 2030”, Note de l’Ifri, June 2016.
- (with Alice Ekman) « Nationalism in China and Japan and Implications for Bilateral Relations », Asie.Visions 74, Ifri, March 2015.
- « Le Japon d'Abe face à la Chine de Xi : de la paix froide à la guerre chaude ? » [Abe's Japan and Xi's China : from Cold Peace to Hot War?], Politique Etrangère, n°2, June 2014.
- (with Françoise Nicolas and John Seaman), « La nouvelle diplomatie économique asiatique : Chine, Japon, Corée comme exportateurs d'infrastructures » [The New Asian Economic Diplomacy : China, Japan and Korea as Infrastructures Exporters], Asie.Visions 68, Ifri, May 2014.
- « Japan's "Smart" Strategic Engagement in Southeast Asia », The ASAN Forum, vol. 1, n°4, December 2013.
- « Japan-Russia, Toward a Strategic Partnership? », Russie.Nei.Visions n°72, September 2013.
- « Japan and the South China Sea: Forging Strategic Partnerships in a Divided Region », Asie.Visions 60, January 2013.
- « Les relations nippo-russes : derrière la recrudescence des tensions, business as usual ? » [Japan-Russia relations: beyond the rise of tensions, business as usual?], Monde chinois-nouvelle Asie, n°28, Winter 2011-2012, pp.70-77.
- « Inde/Japon : Vers une coopération nucléaire ? » [India/Japan: Towards a cooperation on civilian nuclear energy?], Asie.Visions 44, September 2011.
- « L’ambivalence du Japon face au nucléaire : une approche pragmatique du désarmement global » [The Japanese ambivalence on nuclear issue: A pragmatic approach of the global disarmament], Monde chinois-nouvelle Asie, n°26, Sumemr 2011, pp. 57-63.
- Direction of a special issue on « Japon : d’un modèle à l’autre » [Japan : from one model to another], Politique Etrangère, n°1, 2011, March 2011.
- « Le réarmement contrôlé du Japon » [The controlled rearmament of Japan], Politique Etrangère, n°1, 2011, March 2011.
- « Le rapprochement stratégique du Japon et de l’Inde : Vers une coalition des démocraties ? » [The strategic rapprochement between Japan and India: Towards a coalition of democracies?], Journal of International & Strategic Studies n°4, March 2011, pp. 71-79.
- “Understanding the Issue of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa”, Asie.Visions, 29, June 2010.
- “Japan’s Ambivalent Diplomacy on Climate Change”, Health and Environment Reports n°5, IFRI, Paris, May 2010.
- “Significance of the Japan-India Partnership for East Asian Regionalism”, Asian Regional Integration Review, Volume 2, Waseda University Global COE Program, Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration (GIARI), Tokyo, March 2010.