Celine Pajon joined the Japan Program as a Senior researcher on the Japan program, Center for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy.

 

She is also Head of Japan Research at the Center for Asian Studies of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Paris, where she has been a Research Fellow since 2008. Céline is an International Research Fellow with the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS) in Tokyo and was a visiting fellow with the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA), Tokyo, back in 2016. Her area of expertise is Japan’s foreign and defense policy, as well as geostrategic dynamics of the Indo-Pacific area. A graduate from the Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and Sciences Po Lyon, Céline also studied in Waseda University (Tokyo) and Osaka University.

 

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• “Japan in the 2019 G20 and G7 Summits: A Key Partner for Europe?”, Global Policy, Essay, May 2020.
• (with Masashi Nishihara, eds.), “East Asia Security in Flux. What Regional Order Ahead?”, Études de l'Ifri, 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, Ifri, September 2018.
• “Faire face aux « situations de zone grise »: la stratégie japonaise en mer de Chine de l’est” [Coping with grey zone situations: Japan’s strategy in the East China Sea”, Revue Défense Nationale, Summer 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.