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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

More than half of the world’s population will elect their political leaders in 2024, with votes taking place in over 60 countries,

Senior Research Fellow
Yoshiyuki Sagara

The whole world is now intimidated by American democracy. The Economist expressed concern over the possible outcome of the U.S. pr

Group Head, Europe & Americas
Yuichi Hosoya

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

Senior Research Fellow
Hitoshi Suzuki

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

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

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

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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