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)
Diplomacy
Why Trump-Inspired Nationalists in Europe Can’t Stick Together

Across Europe, right-wing leaders are borrowi…

Research Fellow

Yusuke Ishikawa

Security
Beyond a Zero-Sum Approach to U.S.-Japan Defense Burden Sharing

The Trump administration’s policy of pressing…

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Emerging Technology
Will Trump’s tech policies propel U.S. success against China?

Technology is the key to the confrontation be…

Visiting Research Fellow

Mariko Togashi

Diplomacy
The rift between Trump and the EU: can Italy’s Meloni become a bridge-builder?

Once the result of last year’s American elect…

Research Assistant

Maletta Gabriele

Security
Can China Become a Defender of Free Trade?

Since the inauguration of the second Trump ad…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

Politics and Economics
DOGE Shock and Crisis in U.S. Credibility

In 2010, a charming dog from Japan circulated…

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Economic Security
Japan needs to take the quantum-technology leap

[Author: Wakana Asano, API Takano Fellow] …

Security
Air superiority vs. air denial: Redefining U.S. airpower strategy

[Author: Sadamasa Oue , consulting senior fel…

Economic Security
Unchecked and unbalanced: The future of U.S. economic policymaking

U.S. President Donald Trump is fanning the fl…

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
China’s shipyard dominance leads to geoeconomic risks

China’s unparalleled shipbuilding capacity ha…

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

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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