Working Group 4 on the Emerging Issues in Security Studies

The security environment is significantly changing due to the rise of new and emerging technologies such as information communication technologies and artificial intelligence. In addition, there is a growing need to examine the new security issues relating to information and knowledge that go beyond the conventional forms of traditional security concerning war and peace, and non-traditional security issues such as climate change and infectious diseases. This working group aims to look at the new trends and their impact on current security.

Members

SUZUKI, Kazuto

Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
From 2000 to 2008, he worked as an associate professor at the School of International and Comprehensive Studies, University of Tsukuba. From 2008, he was an associate professor at Hokkaido University's School of Public Policy before being appointed professor in 2011. 2012-2013: visiting fellow at Princeton University's Institute of International and Area Studies; from 2013-2015: member of the UN Security Council Panel of Experts on Iran Sanctions; from 2020: current position. Participated in the Panel of Experts; in his current position since 2020.

KOMIYAMA, Koichiro

Visiting Scholar, Keio University Global Research Institute
He specialises in cybersecurity and global governance, and has worked for the JPCERT Coordination Centre since 2006 in international incident response and coordination. PhD (Policy and Media) 

NAKAI, Ryo

Professor 
(Division of Global Security & Energy Transition / Comparative Political Dynamics).
Specialised in comparative politics (party politics and elections, nationalism and ethnopolitics).
Obtained PhD in 2012. He worked as an assistant at Waseda University, a JSPS Research Fellow, an assistant professor at Rikkyo University and associate professor at the Department of Policy Studies, The University of Kitakyushu before assuming his current position on April 1, 2024.

GOROKU, Tsuyoshi

Associate Professor, Faculty of International Politics and Economics, Department of International Politics and Economics, Nishogakusha University
Specialised in the history of US-European relations and European security.

Assistant Professor at Keio University Graduate School of Law (research fellowship), researcher at EU Studies Institute in Tokyo (EUSI) (stay in Ukraine), part-time lecturer at the Maritime Self-Defence Force Staff College, before becoming a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of International Politics and Economics, Nishimatsu Gakusha University (2017-2022), current position from April 2022. . He is also a visiting researcher at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) (2017-) and a research member of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) (2017-). 

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