ECFR Alumni · Visiting Fellow
Japanese foreign relations, security and defense policy, Japan’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific region, EU-Japan relations
German, English, Greek, French (conversational), Japanese (conversational)
Dr. Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp was a Visiting Fellow of the Asia Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She previously worked as a Japan Analyst based in Munich, as a Policy Fellow at the Progressives Zentrum Berlin and as a Japan Fellow at Agora Strategy Group, where she focused on EU-Japan relations and Japanese foreign policy and security in East Asia.
She also was a Research Assistant and a Forum Ebenhausen-Scholar at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin) and worked at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, as a PhD Scholar.
She holds a PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and has published widely on topics related to Japan’s foreign- and security policy, Sino-Japanese relations and security in the Asia-Pacific region.
Shinzo Abe’s aggressive and successful diplomacy has helped make Japan a pillar of liberal democracy and a beneficiary of the rules-based international order. His successor has vowed to protect these interests.
With the war in Ukraine, Germany has entered a new era in security and defence policy, but this does not change Germany’s interests in the Indo-Pacific
Elli Pohlkamp comments on Germany’s engagement in the Indo-Pacific
Dr. Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp elaborates on German and Japanese Defense Spending in light of the war in Ukraine
He [Kadisha] will keep the noticeably harder line against Beijing because I believe a reverse course will not be well accepted domestically as well as internationally
Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp aruges that while PM Kishida has stressed that dialogue with China will be necessary, it is unlikely that he will dramatically change the course set by his predecessors
Motegi’s reappointment symbolizes both continuity in terms of foreign policy, “but at the same time keeping and satisfying [Kishida’s] political capital within the Liberal Democratic Party
Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp comments on the reappointment of Toshimitsu Motegi as Japan’s foreign minister
The China factor is definitely encouraging the enhancement of security ties between Europe and Japan
Dr. Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp comments on Germany, France and Britain’s plans to increase their military presence in the Indo-Pacific region.