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)
Politics and Economics
Is China overproducing highly qualified talent?

China is undergoing a dramatic shift toward h…

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

Security
Can the Trump Administration Address the U.S. Military’s Multi-Front Resource Dispersion?

*The original article in Japanese was publish…

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Security
Why deploying U.S. Army in the Middle East can strengthen deterrence in the Western Pacific

Under the first Trump administration and the …

Research Associate

Rintaro Inoue

Politics and Economics
The Power of Private Individuals: The Informal Influence of Technology

In his farewell address, President Biden soun…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kousuke Saito

Emerging Technology
Navigating Uncertainty in U.S. Space Policy: Decoding Elon Musk’s Influence

When President Trump declared in his second i…

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Politics and Economics
Will China succeed in remaking Hong Kong in its own image?

Toru Kurata, Professor, Rikkyo University Ov…

Emerging Technology
Japan is no island when it comes to semiconductors. Rightly so.

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Emerging Technology
In chip renaissance, Japan is learning from past mistakes

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Politics and Economics
American democracy will weather the Trumpist storm

Satoshi Machidori, Professor, Kyoto Universit…

Security
Why ASEAN is crucial to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

Author: Takahiro Kamisuna Since late forme…

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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