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)
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

Economic Security
Japan needs to take measures against China’s geoeconomic strategy

The year 2022 is set to go down in history. …

Senior Fellow

Naoko Eto

Diplomacy
Japan’s policy on China is critically lacking a military perspective

OUE Sadamasa Consulting Senior Fellow Group…

Diplomacy
Japan needs to come up with a new geoeconomic strategy

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration…

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

Diplomacy
How Japan is building on U.S. policy for economic security

The economic security promotion law, which wa…

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan

Ken Jimbo

Economic Security
How Shinzo Abe left a legacy for Japan in geoeconomics

The Asia Pacific Initiative (API) has, over t…

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

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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