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The Russia-Ukraine war has placed a fresh spotlight on the extremely close relationship between civil technology and military tech

Research Fellow
Kota Umeda

2024 will be a year when we watch over elections in many countries while paying attention to the progress in artificial intelligen

Group Head, Emerging Technologies
Makoto Shiono

Do technologies change how democracy works, or do democratic principles determine how technologies work? With 2024 being a glob

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kousuke Saito

【Author】Sadamasa Oue Consulting Senior Fellow & Group Head, International Security Order, Institute of Geoeconomics Lieutenan

【Author】Goro Matsumura Former Commanding General of the Ground Self-Defense Force’s Northeastern Army A full-scale mi

【Author】Masaki Mizobuchi, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University*

Today’s international security environment indicates that what political scientist Walter Russel Mead called “the return of geopol

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan
Ken Jimbo

In recent years, Japan has been the world’s forerunner in the field of economic security, setting up an economic division within t

Visiting Research Fellow
Mariko Togashi

On Jan. 12, as the new year got underway, TV Tokyo conducted an interview with leaders of major Japanese companies regarding 2024'

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Satoshi Yamada

U.S. allies in East Asia are becoming increasingly worried about how the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November wil

Senior Research Fellow
Hirohito Ogi

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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