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)
Security
How East Asia should prepare for a possible Trump comeback

U.S. allies in East Asia are becoming increas…

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Diplomacy
The battle to tackle U.S. election propaganda heats up

More than half of the world’s population will…

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Diplomacy
Why the eyes of the world will be on the U.S. presidential election

The whole world is now intimidated by America…

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

Economic Security
Japanese firms seek political stability and stronger alliance: survey – IOG Survey Results of 100 Japanese Companies on Economic Security –

Japanese companies’ strategic stance toward t…

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Security
Will drones replace helicopter pilots in the Self-Defense Forces?

[Author: Kisho Yoshida, Visiting Research Fel…

Security
What the Israel-Hamas war means for U.S. grand strategy

【Author】Takuya Matsuda Project Researcher, R…

Diplomacy
What the Hamas-Israel ‘humanitarian pause’ really meant

Almost three months have passed since a confl…

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Diplomacy
Europe rattled by Israel-Hamas war

In many European countries, including the Uni…

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

Security
Acquiring counterstrike capabilities is no simple matter for Japan

【Author】Kisho Yoshida Visiting Fellow, Insti…

Diplomacy
How AI fits into China’s raft of global initiatives

In early November, the British government hos…

Senior Fellow & Group Head, China

Naoko Eto

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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