The Security Studies Unit (SSU) of Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI) was established in the awareness of a pressing number of issues concerning the future of security in the East Asian region and its institutionalization, the reciprocal relations between security and economic interdependence, the rise of new conceptualizations of security and the examination of the related political processes.
SSU produces academic research and policy proposals on these topics, by means of international joint research activities with other academic institutions, for the advancement of mutual understanding between international actors, and for the dissemination in the general public of information and ideas about international political issues both inside and outside of Japan, with the support of several foundations in Japan and the U.S.
SSU has performed numerous activities, including hosting international joint research and international conferences, focusing in particular on relation between economy and security, the security structure of North-East Asia, the deepening the Japan-US alliance, the search for a way to enhance multilateral security cooperation, the strengthening of nuclear non-proliferation, and the formulation of a new concept of security.
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Trends of Major Countries (US, China, Europe) against Economic Security and Policies of Japan
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Territorial Sovereignty in Early Modern Japan: From the Viewpoint of Non-Western International Relations
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Five University Network
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Japan Korea Dialogue
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SSU Forum
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US-China Competition and Securitization of Critical and Emerging Technologies: Evaluating Policy-making Process and Impacts on Globalized Economy 【Research activities ended on 31 March 2022】
Books
- Naosuke Mukoyama “Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States” Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Kiichi Fujiwara, “Hiroshima, Nanjing, and Yasukuni: Contending Discourses on the Second World War in Japan,” in Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry, eds.,The Age of Hiroshima, Princeton University Press, 2020, pp.431(pp.201-218).
Papers
- Naosuke Mukoyama, “Colonial Oil and State-Making: The Separate Independence of Qatar and Bahrain”, Comparative Politics, First published online April 6, 2023.
- Naosuke Mukoyama, “The Eastern cousins of European sovereign states? The development of linear borders in early modern Japan”, European Journal of International Relations, First published online November 1, 2022.
- Chiyuki Aoi and Yee-Kuang Heng, “Regional Communicative Dynamics and International Relations in the Asia-Pacific”, Asian Perspective, Vol.45, No. 3, Summer 2021.
- Yee Kuang HENG, “UK-Japan military exercises and mutual strategic reassurance”, Defence Studies, Vol.21 Issue 3, 2021.
- Yee Kuang Heng, “Britain returns East of Suez, via Japan?”, The Straits Times, 2 February 2021.
- Yee Kuang Heng, “Enabling NATO’s engagement with partners in the Asia-Pacific”, in NATO and the Asia-Pacific, NATO Association of Canada, December 2020.
- Yee Kuang Heng, “The sustainability turn in UAE-Japan relations”, Contemporary Arab Affairs, Vol.13 No.4, December 2020, pp.89-109.
- Yee Kuang Heng, “Enhancing Europe’s global power in Asia 2030”, Global Policy, Vol.11 Issue 1, February 2020, pp.159-163.
Report and Column
- Keisuke IidaProfessor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics
- Kiichi FujiwaraVisiting Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives
- Hideaki ShiroyamaProfessor, Graduate School of Public Policy
- Yee Kuang HengProfessor, Graduate School of Public Policy
- Ai Kihara-HuntProfessor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Naosuke MukoyamaAssociate Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives
- Ryo SahashiAssociate Professor, International Relations Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
- Nazia HussainAssistant Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives
- Kazuyo HanaiProject Assistant Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives
- Robert OrsiProject Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy
- Chen Emily Szu-huaProject Reseacher