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Céline
Nom de l'expert
PAJON

Intitulé du poste

Research Fellow, Head of Japan and Indo-Pacific Research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

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Research Areas:

  • Japanese foreign and defense policy
  • International relations and geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific
  • French and European approaches to the Indo-Pacific and Pacific Islands
  • Maritime security in the Indo-Pacific
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Celine Pajon is Head of Japan and Indo-Pacific Research in Ifri’s Center for Asian Studies, which he joined in 2008. She also coordinates the research program on Pacific Islands, set up in 2022. Céline is a Senior Researcher with the Japan Chair at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) and an International Research Fellow with the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS) in Tokyo. In 2016, she was a visiting researcher at JIIA, the Japan Institute of International Affairs, the think tank of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A graduate from the Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and Sciences Po Lyon, Céline also studied for two years in Japan, at Waseda University (Tokyo) and Osaka University. She tweets @CelinePajon.

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Publications

Japan in South East Asia: Looking for a Balanced Indo-Pacific

Date de publication
12 December 2019
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South East Asia is an area of utmost importance for Japan’s economic, political and security interests, amounting to “a core strategic interest” for Tokyo.

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Macron in Japan: Upgrading the Franco-Japanese Strategic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific

Date de publication
26 June 2019
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On June 26, French President Emmanuel Macron will make his first, what is deemed to be a long overdue visit to Japan, a year after his previous travels to Asia led him to China (January 2018), India (March 2018), and Australia (May 2018).

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China’s Belt & Road and the World: Competing Forms of Globalization

Date de publication
24 April 2019
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China increasingly sees its flagship foreign policy project as a tool for restructuring global governance and a vector for promoting a new form of globalization.

France and Japan: The Indo-Pacific as a Springboard for a Strategic Partnership

Date de publication
27 November 2018
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For decades, the Franco-Japanese partnership has essentially been characterised by a vibrant cultural exchange as well as by sound economic relations. Today Japan is France’s second-largest trading partner in Asia (after China) and its leading Asian investor.

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A New Japan-France Strategic Partnership: A View from Paris

Date de publication
16 November 2018
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On the occasion of the conference held on the 22 November 2018 marking the 160th anniversary of Franco-Japanese diplomatic relations, Ifri publishes two parallel articles offering French and Japanese perspectives on the bilateral security partnership. Michito Tsuruoka's analysis of Japan's point of view is available here.

 

 

Asia–Africa Growth Corridor at the crossroads of business and geopolitics

Date de publication
08 November 2018
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The Asia–Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) — a Japan–India initiative to promote connectivity between Asia and East Africa and encourage joint projects in Africa — is often misrepresented. All too often, the AAGC is depicted as a political move aimed exclusively at countering China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

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The Japan-India Economic Partnership: A Politically Driven Process

Date de publication
17 September 2018
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In the last decade, the strengthening of the India-Japan strategic partnership has been primarily driven by geopolitical considerations, in an era of competing regional visions and influence.

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Democracy in Asia: Models, Trends and Geopolitical Implications

Date de publication
12 February 2018
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Assessing the state of democracy in Asia is a challenge. While some countries, such as Japan and India, have been showing the way from early days, some others, such as in Southeast Asia are still struggling to ensure stable and sustainable democratic institutions and practices.

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A Brave New World for Trade

Date de publication
21 December 2017
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The global environment for trade is undergoing significant changes. New emerging players such as China are aiming to adapt the rules and institutions inherited from the postwar Bretton Woods system.

 

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Japan-Russia: The Limits of a Strategic Rapprochement

Date de publication
26 October 2017
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By reinforcing hostility between Russia and the West, the Ukraine crisis has shone a spotlight on the limits and contradictions of any Russo-Japanese rapprochement. Russia has grown more dependent on China, just as Japan has become more reliant on the United States.

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Marc JULIENNE

Marc JULIENNE

Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

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Sylvia MALINBAUM

Sylvia MALINBAUM

Research Fellow, Head of India and South Asia Research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

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John SEAMAN

John SEAMAN

Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

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Christian LECHERVY

Advisor to the Program on Pacific Islands, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

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Françoise NICOLAS

Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

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Juliette LOESCH

Juliette LOESCH

Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

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Isabelle SAINT-MEZARD

Isabelle SAINT-MEZARD

Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri