Dr. Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp is Director at the Agora Strategy Group and Director of the Agora Strategy Institute.
She is also a Visiting Fellow of the Asia Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Previously, she worked as a Japan analyst in Munich, as a policy fellow at the Progressive Center Berlin, as a research assistant and Forum Ebenhausen fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP Berlin) and as a project officer in the Europe and International Affairs Department of the Hessian State Chancellery in Wiesbaden. She holds a doctorate from the University of Tübingen and was a doctoral candidate at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo. Her areas of expertise are Japan's foreign, economic and security policy, EU-Japan, Japan-Korea and China-Japan relations, as well as geostrategies in the Indo-Pacific.
Expertise
Politics and economy of East Asia, Japanese foreign relations, security and defense policy, strategies in the Indo-Pacific region, relations between the EU, Germany and Japan, China-Japan relations.
Auswahl an Publikationen und Podcasts
What Europe can learn from Japan’s approach to the global south
The new central front: Japan’s special role in the West’s strategic rivalry with China
Agora Strategy Podcast The Future of Power - Die Rolle Japans als geopolitischer Akteur
The weight of history: Why the recent thaw in South Korea-Japan relations may not last