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
Lessons from Ukraine and Gaza on humanitarian law

Civilian casualties caused by Russia's missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and Israel's assault on Gaza have raised international

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Emerging Technology
Biden’s track record in boosting U.S. space security

In February, Rep. Mike Turner, chair of the United States House Intelligence Committee, said that there was credible evidence of a

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Politics and Economics
The transformation of American liberalism

The transformation of liberalism, namely its polarization, lies at the heart of social divisions and a retreat of democracy in the

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

Since 2006, the world has seen levels of freedom and democracy slide for 17 consecutive years, according to Freedom in the World,

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

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

Xi Jinping’s government has begun its charm offensive aimed at Japan. At the Japan-South Korea-China summit in Seoul in May, a

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

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

【Author】Hiroki Takeuchi Associate Professor of Political Science, Southern Methodist University The conflict between the United

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

【Author】Tomoyuki Fukumoto Professor of Economics at the Osaka University of Economics   China’s growth rate of 5.3% in

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

After a long absence of conciliatory diplomacy especially with the West, Chinese leader Xi Jinping seems to have finally embarked

Visiting Senior Fellow

Naoko Eto

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

As one of the world’s three biggest economies — and its largest single market — the European Union has the size and capacity to ac

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Economic Security
Does economic security undermine the benefits of interdependence?

Economic security is becoming increasingly central to American foreign and economic policy. It involves protecting supplies of cri

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

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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