Céline PAJON
Chercheur au Centre Asie de Ifri, responsable des activités Japon
Domaines d'expertise:
- Politique extérieure et problématiques de défense au Japon
- Débats de politique intérieure au Japon
- Relations internationales et géostratégie en Asie-Pacifique
Céline Pajon est chercheur spécialiste du Japon à l'Ifri depuis 2008. Elle analyse les évolutions de la politique étrangère et de défense japonaise. Elle suit également les grands débats de la vie politique nippone. Ses recherches couvrent enfin les relations internationales et la géostratégie de la région indo-pacifique.
Céline Pajon est chercheur associé au Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS) à Tokyo, où elle a effectué plusieurs séjours de recherche ces dernières années. En 2016, elle est chercheur invité au JIIA, le Japan Institute of International Affairs, le think tank du Ministère des Affaires étrangères japonais.
Elle a été chargée de cours à l’INALCO (Langues’O) et intervient également à l’ENSTA et à l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.
Céline Pajon est titulaire d’un Master en relations internationales de l’Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales (IUHEI) de Genève et est diplômée de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon (SciencesPo Lyon). Elle a également étudié deux ans au Japon, à l’Université de Waseda à Tokyo et à l’Université d’Osaka.
Sa dernière publication à l'Ifri est "Japon-Russie, les limites d'un rapprochement stratégique", Russie.NEI.Visions, N°104, octobre 2017.
Parmi ses publications à l’extérieur de l’Ifri figurent : “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 and France, Slowly but Surely Moving Forward on Security Cooperation”, The Diplomat, 6 February 2017 ; "La stratégie maritime du Japon à l'épreuve de l'expansion chinoise", Etudes Marines, Centre d'études stratégiques de la Marine, n°10, juin 2016, pp. 50-57.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
On the eve of the Vladivostok Summit, should we expect any significant progress in the laborious rapprochement between Japan and Russia?
If some African countries are on their way to achieving dynamic economic growth, many are also still struggling with a lack of economic and social infrastructure, latent governance issues and often complex and risky security environments. In this context, both Japan and European countries,...
There is still a big gap between the discourse and the reality of what Japan wants - and what it can achieve in Africa.