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)

Economic Security

Japanese firms seek political stability and stronger alliance: survey – IOG Survey Results of 100 Japanese Companies on Economic Security –

Booklet “Survey Results of 100 Japanese Companies on Economic Security 2023” Japanese companies’ strategic stance toward the do

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Security

Will drones replace helicopter pilots in the Self-Defense Forces?

[Author: Kisho Yoshida, Visiting Research Fellow] In Japan’s National Defense Strategy released in December 2022, the governmen

Security

What the Israel-Hamas war means for U.S. grand strategy

【Author】Takuya Matsuda Project Researcher, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo

Diplomacy

What the Hamas-Israel ‘humanitarian pause’ really meant

Almost three months have passed since a conflict between the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel began, and more than 20,0

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Diplomacy

Europe rattled by Israel-Hamas war

In many European countries, including the United Kingdom, people commemorate the war dead on Remembrance Day on Nov. 11 with the w

Group Head, Europe ＆ Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

Security

Acquiring counterstrike capabilities is no simple matter for Japan

【Author】Kisho Yoshida Visiting Fellow, Institute of Geoeconomics In December 2022, the Japanese government stated in its Natio

Diplomacy

How AI fits into China’s raft of global initiatives

In early November, the British government hosted its AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, focusing on how to best

Visiting Senior Fellow

Naoko Eto

Security

The China-Russia-North Korea triangle looks unlikely to last

[Author] Yukihiro Hotta, Senior Researcher at the Kazankai Foundation When Russian President Vladimir Putin met with North Kore

Diplomacy

‘Offensive’ and ‘defensive’ diplomacy: Managing ties with China

A year has passed since Chinese President Xi Jinping began his norm-breaking third term as Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretary

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

Diplomacy

Germany’s China strategy is epoch-making but ambiguous

【Author】Takumi Itabashi Professor, the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo European Com

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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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