
Research ActivitiesGeoeconomic Briefing

When Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand took part in the NATO summit in Washington in July, the so-called Indo-Pacific

Research Fellow
Rintaro Inoue

[Author] Goro Matsumura, Former Commanding General of the Ground Self-Defense Force’s Northeastern Army At the NATO summit in W

When Israel launched its counterattack against Hamas in October last year, United States President Joe Biden understood what was a

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

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

Senior Research Fellow
Kota Umeda

[Author] Naoko Kumagai, Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University The transformation of liberalism, namely its polarization, lies a

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

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

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

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

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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