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 carmakers face continuing risks in the Russian market

Ever since the era of the Cold War, when auto…

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Diplomacy

How can Japan engage with Pacific nations amid U.S.-China competition?

KURUMADA Shuichi Visiting Fellow, Asia Pacif…

Diplomacy

How the Taiwan issue represents the U.S. and China’s battle for legitimacy

When U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited …

Senior Fellow & Group Head, China

Naoko Eto

Security

China faces challenges in wake of Pelosi’s Taiwan visit

YAMAGUCHI Shinji Project researcher, Institu…

Diplomacy

What did Nancy Pelosi’s visit do for Taiwan?

OGASAWARA Yoshiyuki Professor, The Institute…

Diplomacy

How effective are the West’s sanctions on Russia?

The previous three Geoeconomic Briefing serie…

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Security

Does the conflict in Ukraine represent a ‘new war’?

KOIZUMI Yu Lecturer, Research Center for Adv…

Diplomacy

Japan has much to learn from Taiwan’s countering of China’s sharp power

HUANG Wei-Hsin project researcher, Institute…

Diplomacy

The war in Ukraine offers valuable lessons on changing global relations

SATO Heigo Professor, Takushoku University …

Emerging Technology

Ukraine war highlights private sector’s role in conflict

It has long been said that technology changes…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kousuke Saito

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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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