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
Takaichi’s Strengths and the Need for ‘Strategic Signaling’

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi rocketed to a h…

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan

Ken Jimbo

Economic Security
Takaichi’s Twin Challenges: Economic Growth and Security

The administration of Prime Minister Sanae Ta…

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Economic Security
China, Rare Earths and ‘Weaponized Interdependence’

In early September, just days after China mar…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

Diplomacy
Is China Guardian of the ‘Postwar International Order’?

Tensions in Japan-China relations have escala…

Economic Security
Japan-India Defense in a Fragmenting Indo-Pacific

At their late-August summit, former Prime Min…

Visiting Research Fellow

Tomofumi Uchino

Economic Security
Beijing’s ‘Globalist’ Agenda Under Trump 2.0

As 2025 comes to a close, it’s worth reflecti…

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

Diplomacy
The long road to a South Korea-U.S. trade deal

South Korea’s tariff negotiations with the U.…

Economic Security
Xi’s Balancing Act: Competition Abroad, Discipline at Home

Beijing’s calculated use of rare-earth export…

Visiting Senior Fellow

Naoko Eto

Diplomacy
Trump 2.0 Diminishes European Union Power

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Economic Security
India’s Geoeconomic Options in a Trumpian World

When Donald Trump returned to the White House…

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

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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