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)

Diplomacy

Why Japan and the G7 must take notice of the Global South

With Japan set to host the Group of Seven summit in May in the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, abolishing nuclear weapons will be

Group Head, Europe ＆ Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

China

New risks emerge as Xi administration moves ahead toward a dead end

KE Long Project Professor, Global Center for Asian and Regional Research, University of Shizuoka

Economic Security

China determined not to be slowed by U.S. chip controls

TOKUCHI Tatsuhito Consulting Senior Fellow, the Institute of Geoeconomics In October, U.S. President Joe Biden announced two r

Diplomacy

Finding a way to manage China’s protectionism in procurement

As a previous article in this series by Naoko Eto pointed out, China’s economic security policy cannot be seen clearly from outsid

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

Economic Security

How Xi Jinping is fortifying China’s economic security

More players in the global economy are now prioritizing national security as well as economic efficiency, with economic security i

Visiting Senior Fellow

Naoko Eto

Economic Security

New challenges have forced Japanese companies to address economic security

Japanese companies have been facing multiple geoeconomic risks in the past year — from the war in Ukraine to rising uncertainties

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Economic Security

Why pharmaceuticals are a key issue in the ongoing U.S.-China conflict

Kevin McCarthy and Mike Gallagher, anti-China hard-line Republicans in the U.S. Congress, wrote in an opinion piece for Fox News l

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Economic Security

Looking back 20 years to learn lessons from the U.S.-Japan chip war

A few weeks ago I went to the library to find a copy of Chris Miller’s acclaimed “Chip War,” the recently-released book explaining

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security

How Japan and its businesses should respond to U.S. economic security policies

The United States last year implemented measures to tighten semiconductor export controls and supply chain resilience, and is tryi

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Satoshi Yamada

Economic Security

Why the semiconductor competition between the U.S. and China is significant

The day the U.S. Department of Commerce announced measures to strengthen export controls on semiconductors shipped to China — Oct.

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

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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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