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Céline
Nom de l'expert
PAJON

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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

What Role for Japan in Africa's Security After Withdrawal from South Sudan?

Date de publication
01 June 2017
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There is still a big gap between the discourse and the reality of what Japan wants - and what it can achieve in Africa.

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Japan's Security Policy in Africa: The Dawn of a Strategic Approach?

Date de publication
17 May 2017
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This paper documents new features of Japan's diplomacy that tends to gradually integrate Africa into Japan's strategic interests.

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Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next French President

Date de publication
31 March 2017
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France’s current presidential campaign has created an unprecedented situation fuelled by revelations and a total absence of restraint, but it has not truly taken account of the disruptions of the last year: Brexit, the attempted coup in Turkey, the election of Donald Trump, the recapturing of Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad, Xi Jinping’s declarations about “economic globalization”, or the behavior of North Korea. The debate, or rather its absence, can be looked at in two ways.

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Japan and France: Slowly but Surely Moving Forward on Security Cooperation

Date de publication
06 February 2017
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Despite being geographically distant, France and Japan share a number of converging interests.

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Japan’s Coast Guard and Maritime Self-Defense Force in the East China Sea: Can a Black-and-White System Adapt to a Gray-Zone Reality?

Date de publication
31 January 2017
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This essay examines the need for growing coordination between the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) to better cope with gray-zone situations.

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Japan’s Coast Guard and Maritime Self-Defense Force: Cooperation among Siblings

Date de publication
01 December 2016
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Coping with “gray zone” situations has in recent years become the core security challenge for Japan. Since September 2012, Beijing has been challenging Japan’s sovereign control of the Senkaku Islands by regularly sending law-enforcement vessels into Japanese territorial waters and contiguous zones.

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Le monde selon Trump. Anticiper la nouvelle politique étrangère américaine

Date de publication
16 November 2016
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What will become of US foreign policy under Donald Trump? A selection of Ifri researchers has come together to offer their thoughts on this question. Our experts cover an array of topics through 14 contributions, ranging from the future Sino-American relations, through US engagement in the Middle East, to the prospects of a renewed transatlantic relationship. This analysis intends to help readers anticipate the outcomes of this election in order to facilitate decision-making.

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Japan and its Alliance with the US. Structure, Dynamics, Evolution to 2030

Date de publication
15 June 2016
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China’s rise, US rebalancing in Asia, historic defense reforms in Japan, the adoption of new Guidelines for bilateral cooperation: the Japan-US alliance has reached a turning point in its history.

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Nationalism in China and Japan and Implications for Bilateral Relations

Date de publication
27 March 2015
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Nationalism appears to be an important part of the growing frictions between China and Japan.

In Japan, the return to power of Shinzo Abe as prime minister, and the historic breakthrough of an extreme right-wing party onto the political scene reinforce the view that there has been a clear shift to the right. Public opinion is today also more realistic about direct security threats to Japan.

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The Asian Century: What International Norms and Practices? Conference Proceedings, 12 September 2014

Date de publication
16 December 2014
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Asia is now a nerve center for global economic activity and a theatre of some of the most pressing security concerns of our time. So important has Asia become to global affairs today, and ostensibly for the decades to come, that many have already dubbed the 21st Century as the “Asian Century”.

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Juliette LOESCH

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