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)
Emerging Technology
Starlink highlights economic security challenges facing democracies

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

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Emerging Technology
How to deal with influence operations in the era of generative AI

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

Emerging Technology
Can we trust the polls? How emerging technologies affect democracy

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

Security
How to stop the dominoes of war from falling in East Asia

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

Security
Ukraine war has brought new challenges for international security

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

Security
How the Israel-Hamas war is changing the international security order

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

Security
How should Japan deal with Ukraine, Gaza and the Indo-Pacific region?

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

Economic Security
The U.S.-Japan gap: a challenge in economicsecurity cooperation

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

Economic Security
Why Japanese companies need to prepare for Trump 2.0

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

Security
How East Asia should prepare for a possible Trump comeback

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

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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