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

Germany’s China strategy is epoch-making but ambiguous

【Author】Takumi Itabashi Professor, the Gradu…

Economic Security

How electric vehicles became subject to EU economic security

Among Japan, the United States and Europe, th…

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Economic Security

How can the EU strengthen its strategic autonomy regarding chips?

Discussions on strategic autonomy have become…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Satoshi Yamada

Economic Security

European Union being shaken by geoeconomic changes

Discussions on economic security began in ear…

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

China

China looks to science and technology in its push for more power

【Author】TSUCHIYA Takahiro Associate professo…

Emerging Technology

How emerging technologies can bring power to states

So-called emerging technologies such as artif…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kousuke Saito

Emerging Technology

Satellite constellations taking on greater role in Japan’s security

The Russia-Ukraine war, which started in Febr…

Visiting Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Emerging Technology

Will generative AI hold power in international relations?

Science and technology have traditionally bee…

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

Economic Security

Japan has plenty to offer in the field of detecting threats

If Russia were to use nuclear weapons in Ukra…

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

Security

Why building an effective Japan-U.S. kill chain will enhance defense

Japan’s defense, during both peacetime and em…

Research Assistant

Rintaro Inoue

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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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