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)

Security

War in Ukraine will set a course for international order — whatever the outcome

More than a year has passed since Russia inva…

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan

Ken Jimbo

Diplomacy

It’s time for the U.S. to rediscover its role in the G7

At the Group of 20 Summit in Pittsburgh in 20…

Research Associate

Marina Fujita Dickson

Diplomacy

Challenges await EU over continued assistance to Ukraine

When Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surp…

Research Fellow

Yusuke Ishikawa

Diplomacy

Ahead of G7 Hiroshima summit, Japan should examine past contributions

For Japan, which is not a permanent member of…

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Diplomacy

Why Japan and the G7 must take notice of the Global South

With Japan set to host the Group of Seven sum…

Group Head, Europe ＆ Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

China

New risks emerge as Xi administration moves ahead toward a dead end

KE Long Project Professor, Global Center for…

Economic Security

China determined not to be slowed by U.S. chip controls

TOKUCHI Tatsuhito Consulting Senior Fellow, …

Diplomacy

Finding a way to manage China’s protectionism in procurement

As a previous article in this series by Naoko…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

Economic Security

How Xi Jinping is fortifying China’s economic security

More players in the global economy are now pr…

Senior Fellow & Group Head, China

Naoko Eto

Economic Security

New challenges have forced Japanese companies to address economic security

Japanese companies have been facing multiple …

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

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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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