DELAMOTTE　 Guibourg　ギブール・ドラモット

Co-directrice du département Japon/Co-Director of the Japanese studies department

Responsable de l'Axe 2 de l'IFRAE/Head of French Research Institute on East Asia's programme on Contemporary East Asia's trajectory

Membre de la section 4 du CNU/Elected member of the National Academic Council's political science section

Biography

A French and Australian dual citizen, Guibourg Delamotte works on Japan's foreign and security policies, and Japanese domestic politics.

A tenured Full Professor of Political Science at the Japanese studies department of the French Institute of Oriental Studies (Inalco), which she heads, she is a Research Fellow with the French Research Institute on East Asia (Ifrae, Inalco). She has been posted at Inalco since 2006. She also teaches at Sciences Po Paris.

She is Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST, University of Tokyo), Distinguished Research Fellow of the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR, Tokyo), Academic Fellow of the Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies (Temple University Japan, Tokyo). She was a National Institute of Defense Studies Fellow (MoD, Tokyo) in 2010. She read law at Paris Panthéon Assas and the University of Oxford (as a graduate and post-graduate), Japanese at Inalco (BA, MA), political science at Sciences Po Paris (grad. and post-grad. levels). She defended her PhD dissertation in political studies on Japan’s defence policy at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. It received the Highest honours, the Shibusawa-Claudel award and was published by Presses universitaires de France in 2010. She defended her Habilitation to supervise doctoral students on Japanese democracy at Sciences Po Paris. It was published in 2022. 

Her most recent books are: Le Japon, un leader discret (Eyrolles, 2023), La Démocratie au Japon, singulière et universelle (ENS Ed., 2022), (coeditor with J. Brown and R. Dujarric) The Abe Legacy. How Japan has been shaped by Abe Shinzô, Lexington, 2021; (coeditor with C. Tellenne) Géopolitique et géoéconomie du monde contemporain. Conflits et puissances, La Découverte, 2021.