
SAITOU Kousuke is a professor at the Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in International Political Economy from the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Prior to joining Sophia University to teach international security studies, he was an associate professor at Yokohama National University, Japan. [Concurrent Position]
Professor, Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University
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The Geoeconomics of Gen AI: Middle Power Strategies on Digital Sovereignty
How Is Generative AI Changing Global Competit…

Research Fellow
Kota Umeda

Emerging Technology
The Geoeconomics of Generative AI Development Race: How Emerging Technologies Can Become National Power
Generative AI has been progressing at an incr…

Group Head, Emerging Technologies
Makoto Shiono

Economic Security
Trump vs. Universities: Can the Innovation Ecosystem be Rebuilt?

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kousuke Saito

Politics and Economics
The Power of Private Individuals: The Informal Influence of Technology
In his farewell address, President Biden soun…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kousuke Saito

Security
Will Trump change course on critical and emerging tech?
Challenges for American diplomacy stem from t…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kousuke Saito

Emerging Technology
Can we trust the polls? How emerging technologies affect democracy
Do technologies change how democracy works, o…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kousuke Saito

Emerging Technology
How emerging technologies can bring power to states
So-called emerging technologies such as artif…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kousuke Saito

Emerging Technology
Ukraine war highlights private sector’s role in conflict
It has long been said that technology changes…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kousuke Saito
Ranking
Oil, Debt, and Dollars: The Geoeconomics of Venezuela2026.01.07
Orbán in the Public Eye: Anti-Ukraine Argument for Delegitimising Brussels2026.02.04
When Is a Tariff Threat Not a Tariff Threat?2026.01.29
A Looming Crisis in U.S. Science and Technology: The Case of NASA’s Science Budget2025.10.08
Japan’s Upper House Election: Political Fragmentation and Growing Instability2025.07.25
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