Head, ECFR Paris
Senior Policy Fellow
Trans-Atlantic relations, US politics and foreign policy, French politics and foreign policy, and domestic determinants of foreign policy
French, English, Spanish
Dr Célia Belin is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and head of its Paris office since January 2023.
Between 2017 and 2022, Belin was a Visiting Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe of the Brookings Institution, in Washington DC, and served as the Interim Director of the Center between May and August 2022. She remains affiliated as a non-resident senior fellow with Brookings.
Prior to joining Brookings, Belin served for over five years as a Special Advisor on US and transatlantic affairs in the French foreign ministry’s Centre d’Analyse, de Prévision et de Stratégie and chief editor of the centre’s flagship publication, Les Carnets du CAPS.
She holds a PhD in political science/international relations from the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), an MA in international relations from the University Paris 2 as well as a BA in modern languages and business from the University of Burgundy.
Belin is the author of “Des Démocrates en Amérique: L’heure des choix face à Trump,” published by Fayard-Fondation Jean Jaurès in 2020. She regularly writes in the press and specialised journals on US affairs, French foreign policy and trans-Atlantic relations and is a frequent commentator on radio and television. Belin is also a member of the editorial committee of the online francophone platform Le Rubicon.
France’s support for EU and NATO enlargement could be transformational for European security. But domestic unrest and sniping by others could undermine French steadfastness on these major questions
France is looking to give political impetus to reform of the global financial architecture. Others should swing in behind its gambit
Fierce debates are raging among both Republicans and Democrats about America’s future foreign policy orientation. Europeans should take note and prepare
Last week, France’s president Emmanuel Macron threw the EU bubble into turmoil by suggesting that Europe should not become the United States’ “vassal” over Taiwan
US policy on Ukraine has reassured Europeans. But as it prepares for re-election, the Biden administration will likely adopt more realist and progressive positions
[Macron], under pressure from the far-right [in the polls], has veered to the right, offering a tough reform of the immigration laws and holding a firm line on the riots
Célia Belin et Pawel Zerka à propos du virage du président Macron vers la droite
Poland, for instance, sees the trans-Atlantic alliance as the best way for its security, or Europe’s security, even if it means relinquishing a bit of sovereignty to the U.S.
Célia Belin comments on France´s project of seeking “strategic autonomy” for Europe
France has realized the need for integration and strengthening NATO, while Poles have also realized how important it is to have some form of higher European integration
Célia Belin on the French and Polish defense strategies
At least Macron is trying something. Ultimately, the aim is to bring fresh air and new energy to the global financial infrastructure.
Célia Belin examines President Macron’s decision to organise the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact
The Paris summit is part of a desire to avoid the logic of blocs, of a confrontation between the West and the “global South”
Célia Belin on the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact
