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)
Politics and Economics
Democracy is on tenuous ground this ‘election year’

Since 2006, the world has seen levels of free…

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

Diplomacy
Will Japan and China’s relations continue to stagnate?

Xi Jinping’s government has begun its charm o…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

Diplomacy
Japan can help Global South navigate U.S.-China clash

【Author】Hiroki Takeuchi Associate Professor o…

Politics and Economics
What will it take for China to regain market confidence?

【Author】Tomoyuki Fukumoto Professor of Econom…

Diplomacy
Expectations vs. reality of Xi Jinping’s charm offensive

After a long absence of conciliatory diplomac…

Senior Fellow & Group Head, China

Naoko Eto

Economic Security
Europe’s vulnerability in the EU-China-U.S. geoeconomic triangle

As one of the world’s three biggest economies…

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Economic Security
Does economic security undermine the benefits of interdependence?

Economic security is becoming increasingly ce…

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Grasping industrial policy in the age of economic security

Japan and the United States are committed to …

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Economic Security
How will Japan respond to new U.S. investment rules?

In recent years, as countries increasingly fo…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Satoshi Yamada

Economic Security
The shift from economic security to geoeconomics

As the West continues to grapple with the cha…

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto 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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