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)
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

Diplomacy
What Japan can learn from a leader’s diplomacy four decades ago

In the seven times that Japan hosted the Group of Seven leaders’ summit — with the latest held in Hiroshima earlier this month — T

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

Economic Security
Why the G7 has significance as a collective economic defense mechanism

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine still continuing after more than a year, confrontation between the United States and China inten

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Security
War in Ukraine will set a course for international order — whatever the outcome

More than a year has passed since Russia invaded Ukraine, and there is no prospect of the war ending anytime soon. Still, how this

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan

Ken Jimbo

Diplomacy
It’s time for the U.S. to rediscover its role in the G7

At the Group of 20 Summit in Pittsburgh in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the G20 would replace the Group of Sev

Research Associate

Marina Fujita Dickson

Diplomacy
Challenges await EU over continued assistance to Ukraine

When Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise trip to Kyiv in March, he reiterated Japan’s commitment to assist Ukraine until

Research Fellow

Yusuke Ishikawa

Diplomacy
Ahead of G7 Hiroshima summit, Japan should examine past contributions

For Japan, which is not a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, the Group of Seven (G7) has offered a valuable

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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