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)
Emerging Technology
Will generative AI hold power in international relations?

Science and technology have traditionally bee…

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

Economic Security
Japan has plenty to offer in the field of detecting threats

If Russia were to use nuclear weapons in Ukra…

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Security
Why building an effective Japan-U.S. kill chain will enhance defense

Japan’s defense, during both peacetime and em…

Research Assistant

Rintaro Inoue

Security
What the trilateral fighter jet program means for Japan

【Author】Oue Sadamasa, Consulting Senior Fello…

Security
How Japan can make the most of its latest diplomatic tool

Japan now has a new diplomatic policy tool. …

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Security
A new tide of weapons imports, production and development

The essential part of a state’s national secu…

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan

Ken Jimbo

Security
Is China going unchecked while the West supports Ukraine?

【Author】TSURUOKA Michito Associate Professor…

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

【Author】HIGASHINO Atsuko Professor, the Facu…

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

【Author】HOSAKA Sanshiro Research fellow, the…

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

On June 10, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel…

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

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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