GUIBOURG DELAMOTTE

Professor of Political science at the Japanese studies department of the French Institute of Oriental Studies

A French and Australian dual citizen, Dr. Guibourg Delamotte is Professor of Political science at the Japanese studies department of the French Institute of Oriental Studies (Inalco, Paris), where she has had tenure since 2010, and a Research Fellow with the French Research Institute on East Asia (Inalco, UPC, CNRS). In 2021-2022, she was invited by Tokyo College (attached to the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Public Policy and Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, RCAST). Her fields of research are Japan's domestic politics and international relations.

She obtained her Habilitation to supervise research from Sciences Po (with a dissertation on Japan's democracy), her PhD in Political Studies (on Japan's defence policy) from Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Prior to this, she read Law at the University of Oxford and Paris 2-Panthéon-Assas, Japanese at Inalco, International Relations at SciencesPo Paris (BA and M).

She recently published Le Japon, un leader discret, Eyrolles 2023, and La Démocratie japonaise, singulière et universelle, ENS Ed. 2022. She coedited (with J. Brown and R. Dujarric) The Abe Legacy. How Japan has been shaped by Abe Shinzô , Lexington, 2021; Géopolitique et géoéconomie du monde contemporain. Conflits et puissances (with C. Tellenne), La Découverte, 2021; Le Monde vu du Japon (CNRS ed., 2019); Japan’s World Power. Assessment, vision and outlook (Routledge, 2017). Her PhD dissertation (La Politique de défense du Japon) was published by Presses universitaires de France (2010).