Geoeconomic Briefing

Research Activities
Geoeconomic Briefing

Geoeconomic Briefing is a series featuring researchers at the IOG focused on Japan’s challenges in that field. It will also provide analyses of the state of the world and trade risks as well as technological and industrial structures. (Editor-in-chief: Dr. SUZUKI Kazuto, Director, Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG); Professor, The University of Tokyo)
Economic Security
Economic security has become central to America’s National Security Strategy

While you wouldn’t know it from the recent U.…

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Diplomacy
Donald Trump, ‘The Art of the Deal” and the ‘TACO’ myth

The drama following U.S. President Donald Tru…

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Security
How should Japan respond to China’s nuclear threat?

Concerns over a potential Taiwan contingency …

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Security
Takaichi is right to call for a ‘new technology-driven nation’

Late last year, the Trump administration rele…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kousuke Saito

Security
Redesigning U.S.-Japan security in a ‘two-peer’ nuclear era

Late last year, the Trump administration rele…

Group Head, International Security Order / Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kuniharu Kakihara

Security
War in the Persian Gulf means volatility in the global energy market

Last month’s U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran, and…

Program Coordination Manager

Akihiko Sasaki

Diplomacy
China’s long-range DF-27 missiles are a game changer

Long before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dre…

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Diplomacy
Lessons for Japan from Russia’s war in Ukraine

[Author: Yuichi Yoshida, LEAP Fellow]] With …

Diplomacy
Challenges for Japan During the U.S.-China ‘Truce’

Following her victory at the polls on Sunday,…

Visiting Senior Fellow

Naoko Eto

Diplomacy
Trump, Takaichi and Japan’s Strategic Crossroads

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi entered office …

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Editor-in-chief

Kazuto Suzuki

Director & Group Head, Economic Security,

Kazuto Suzuki is Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and received his Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, England. He has worked for the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, France as an assistant researcher, as an Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba from 2000 to 2008, and served as Professor of International Politics at Hokkaido University until 2020. He also spent one year at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 2012 to 2013 as a visiting researcher. He served as an expert in the Panel of Experts for Iranian Sanction Committee under the United Nations Security Council from 2013 to July 2015. He has been the President of the Japan Association of International Security and Trade. [Concurrent Position] Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo

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