Shoichi ITOH

Senior Fellow, Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ)

Shoichi Itoh is Senior Fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ), Adjunct Fellow (non-resident) at the Japan Chair of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Associated Senior Fellow at the Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) in Stockholm. Previously, he was Visiting Professor at the Slavic-Eurasia Research Center of Hokkaido University in 2018-2020 and held visiting fellowships at the Russia and the Eurasia Program at CSIS in 2010, at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in 2009 and at the Center for East Asian Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 2006. He also served as political and economic attaché at the Consulate General of Japan in Khabarovsk in 2000-2003.

He has widely published on the geopolitics of Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific as well as the U.S.-Japan Alliance. Among numerous publications, his recent works include “Japan’s Russia Policy at a Crossroads: New Phase for Geopolitics of Energy” in P. J. Saunders & J. S. Van Oudenaren (eds.), Change and Continuity in Japan-Russia Relations: Implications for the United States (The Center for the National Interest, 2019); “Japan’s Opaque Energy Policy toward Russia: Is Abe Being Trumped by Putin?”, in The Emerging Russia-Asia Energy Nexus (National Bureau of Asian Research Special Report #74, 2018); “Sino-Russian Energy Relations in Northeast Asia and Beyond: Oil, Natural Gas, and Nuclear Power” in Japan and the Sino-Russian Entente: The Future of Major-Power Relations in Northeast Asia (NBR Special Report #64, 2017); “The energy factor in Russia’s ‘Asia pivot’” (co-authored with A. Kuchins), in M. M. Mochizuki & D. M. Ollapally (eds.), Energy Security in Asia and Eurasia(Routledge, 2017); “Sino-Japanese competition over Russian oil” in Robert Bedeski & Niklas Swanström (eds.), Eurasia’s Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics Rivalry or partnership for China, Russia and Central Asia? (Routledge, 2012); Russia Looks East: Energy Markets and Geopolitics in Northeast Asia (CSIS, 2011).

Activities

Working Group

"Emerging Security Landscape in Greater Central Asia" Working Group

Single Author

Itoh, Shoichi. Russia Looks East: Energy Markets and Geopolitics in Northeast Asia : A Report of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program. CSIS, 2011.

Partial Contribution

Itoh, Shoichi. “Energy Outlook in the Asia‐Pacific.” in Russian Energy Strategy in the Asia-Pacific: Implications for Australia, edited by Elizabeth Buchanan, 15-31. Australian National University Press, 2021.

Itoh, Shoichi, and ANDREW KUCHINS. “The energy factor in Russia’s ‘Asia pivot.’” in Energy Security in Asia and Eurasia, edited by Mike M. Mochizuki, and Deepa M. Ollapally, 140-162. Routledge, 2016.

Itoh, Shoichi. “The Geopolitics of Northeast Asia’s Pipeline Development.” in Energy Security and the Asia-Pacific: Course Reader, edited by Mikkal E. Herberg, 199-212. The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2014.

Itoh, Shoichi. "Sino-Japanese competition over Russian oil." in Eurasia's Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics Rivalry or Partnership for China, Russia, and Central Asia?, edited by Robert Bedeski, and Niklas Swanström, 158-178. Routledge, August 2012.

Itoh, Shoichi. “Russia’s Energy Policy Towards Asia: Opportunities and Uncertainties.” in Energy and Security Cooperation in Asia Challenges and Prospects, edited by Christopher Len, and Alvin Chew , 143-165. Institute for Security & Development Policy, January 2009.

Itoh, Shoichi. “Can Russia Become a "Regional Power" in Northeast Asia?: Implications from Contemporary Energy Relations with China and Japan.” in Security challenges in the post-Soviet space : European and Asian perspectives, edited by Eberhardt, Adam, Akihiro Iwashita, Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych. and Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center (Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center, 2007).

Papers

Itoh, Shoichi. “Japan’s Russia Policy at a Crossroads: New Phase for Geopolitics of Energy.” In Change and Continuity in Japan-Russia Relations: Implications for the United States, edited by P. J. Saunders and J. S. Van Oudenaren, The Center for the National Interest, 2019.

Itoh, Shoichi. “Japan's Opaque Energy Policy toward Russia: Is Abe Being Trumped by Putin?” In The Emerging Russia-Asia Energy Nexus, edited by E. Downs et al., The National Bureau of Asian Research, Special Report no. 74, 2018.

Itoh, Shoichi. "Sino-Russian Energy Relations in Northeast Asia and Beyond: Oil, Natural Gas and Nuclear Power." In Japan and the Sino-Russian Entente: The Future of Major-Power Relations in Northeast Asia, The National Bureau of Asian Research, Special Report, no. 64, 2017.

Itoh, Shoichi. “Energy Security in Northeast Asia: A Pivotal Moment for the U.S.-Japan Alliance”, Posted on the homepage of the Brookings Institution, 2013.

Itoh, Shoichi. “Russia's Energy Diplomacy toward the Asia-Pacific: Is Moscow's Ambition Dashed?” In Energy and Environment in Slavic Eurasia: Toward the Establishment of the Network of Environmental Studies in the Pan-Okhotsk Region, edited by Shinichiro Tabata, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2008.

Itoh, Shoichi. "China’s Surging Energy Demand: Trigger for Conflict or Cooperation with Japan?" East Asia: an International Quarterly 25, no. 1 (2008): 79-98.

伊藤庄一「The Emergence of the New Elite in the Post-Leninist Regimes: Russia and China-- A Theoretical Exploration」『国際政治経済学研究』、1999年3月、No. 3、1-31頁。

Social Publications

“Atoms for Peace 2.0: The case for a stronger US-Japan nuclear power alliance” (co-authored with Julia Nesheiwat), Atlantic Council, October 23, 2023.

Asia Strategy in Action. The Role of Ukraine-Japan Cooperation, New Europe Center (Kyiv, Ukraine), February 16, 2021, パネリスト。

Geopolitics, energy security, and the US-Japan alliance, The Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C., March 2020, 2019, パネリスト。

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