Geoeconomic Briefing

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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)
Security
Is China going unchecked while the West supports Ukraine?

【Author】TSURUOKA Michito Associate Professor, International Security and European Politics, Keio University Visiting Fellow, the

Security
Mission impossible: How to get Kyiv and Moscow to talk

【Author】HIGASHINO Atsuko Professor, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba   Nearly 18 m

Security
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: From a weak anti-war leader to a symbol of the fight for liberation

【Author】HOSAKA Sanshiro Research fellow, the International Center for Defense and Security in Estonia」 Russian President Vladi

Diplomacy
Why Zelenskyy’s diplomacy is a key factor in Ukraine’s efforts to win war

On June 10, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy admitted for the first time that counteroffensive actions were underway agains

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

Diplomacy
What lies behind China’s unconventional approach to diplomacy?

Previous articles in this series have discussed China’s diplomatic strategy of attempting to change the international order of Eas

Visiting Senior Fellow

Naoko Eto

Diplomacy
Democracy-minded Yoon faces challenges in dealing with China

【Author】NISHINO Junya Professor of Department of Political Science, the Director of the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies, K

Diplomacy
Why ASEAN is key to building order in the Indo-Pacific region

【Author】KOGA Kei Associate Professor of International Relations, Nanyang Technological University This article was posted to t

Diplomacy
The future lies in helping to make China a responsible superpower

At the Group of Seven leaders summit held in Hiroshima in May, a major hidden agenda item was how to handle China. The G7 leade

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

Diplomacy
China’s vision of an international order firmly in the shadows of the G7

At the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima in May, leaders once again condemned in the strongest possible terms the war of aggressi

Visiting Senior Fellow

Naoko Eto

Diplomacy
Taking inspiration from Hiroshima to reconstruct the global nuclear order

【Author】Sadamasa Oue, Consulting Senior Fellow Group Head, International Security Order, Institute of Geoeconomics Lieutenant Gen

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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