学歴

著作物

• “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.

• “France’s Indo-Pacific Strategy and the Quad Plus”, The Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Vol. 3, N.5, Special Issue: Quad Plus-Form versus substance, December 2020.

• « La diplomatie économique du Japon en Afrique. Un bilan de l’ère Abe, entre priorités stratégiques et réalités de terrain », Notes de l’Ifri, Décembre 2020.

• “What Would Suga’s Indo-Pacific Strategy Look Like?”, Commentary, ISPI, 5 October 2020.

• (with Marianne Péron-Doise), “Souveraineté et gouvernance maritime en Asie. Les garde-côtes en première ligne », Annuaire Français des Relations Internationales, Université Panthéon-Assas, Volume XXI, September 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.

その他

Celine Pajon researches and analyses Japan's foreign and defense policy for Ifri since 2008. She also follows the major domestic political debates in Japan. She conducts researches on the evolving International Relations and geostrategic setting of the Indo-Pacific region.

She lectured at INALCO (Langues'O), ENSTA and EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne).

Céline Pajon holds a Master in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva and graduated from SciencesPo Lyon. She studied two years in Japan, at Waseda University and Osaka University.