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Once the result of last year’s American election became clear, countries around the world started wondering how to deal with a sec
Research Assistant
Gabriele Maletta
Since the inauguration of the second Trump administration, there has been growing debate about the destabilization of the internat
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Hotaka Machida
In 2010, a charming dog from Japan circulated on social media, its quizzical expression sparking a global meme. Her image became k
Senior Research Fellow
Yoshiyuki Sagara
[Author: Wakana Asano, API Takano Fellow] From the World War II race for an atomic bomb, to the Cold War race for nuclear and s
[Author: Sadamasa Oue , consulting senior fellow of the Asia Pacific Initiative / former lieutenant general in Japan’s Air Self-De
U.S. President Donald Trump is fanning the flames of yet another trade war by calling Japan “spoiled” and threatening to hike tari
Visiting Research Fellow
Paul Nadeau
China’s unparalleled shipbuilding capacity has the U.S., Japan and its allies — both military and economic — rightly concerned abo
Senior Research Fellow
Kenichi Doi
Author: Maiko Ichihara, Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University Populism is threatening democracy around the
Author: Takahiro Tsuchiya, Professor, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies On Feb. 17, Chinese leader Xi Jinping convened a long
[Author] Keitaro Ushirogata, Senior Research Fellow, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Command and Staff College
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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