Special Feature on Economic Security

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Our society, as an international community, is at a historical turning point, as the modern era of globalization that began with the end of the Cold War comes to a close. Economic security has become an important theme as geopolitical risks increase. The security environment surrounding Japan is also becoming particularly severe. In this international context, The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) is expected to have a deep understanding of the impacts of these geopolitical risks and economic security considerations on the economy and industry through various types of economic analysis, including data-based empirical analysis, and to make recommendations for economic, trade, and industrial policies from its academic insights. For this reason, we have compiled and “visualized” the research conducted at RIETI which is relevant to these topics as a special feature.

Please note that this page is a collection of links curated by RIETI, extracted from the content published on the website, which RIETI deems to be relevant to the theme of economic security.

Articles

Symposiums

BBL Seminars

  • January 17, 2025

    Strategic Scenario Analysis for Economic Security: Enhancing Corporate Resilience through Tabletop Exercises (TTXs)

    English / Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation)

  • November 5, 2024

    Industrial Policy and the Global Trade Order Under Geopolitical Competition

    • Speaker: MUNAKATA Naoko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) and Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • October 2, 2024

    The 2024 US Presidential Election and the Future of the International Order

    • Speaker: KUBO Fumiaki (President, National Defense Academy of Japan, Emeritus Professor, the University of Tokyo)
    • Commentator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) and Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • September 5, 2024

    Research and Development in Generative AI and its Future Direction

    • Speaker: HANAZAWA Ken (General Manager, Data Science Laboratories and (concurrent) Generative AI Center, NEC Corporation)
    • Commentator: WATANABE Takuya (Director, Software and Information Service Industry Strategy Office, IT Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 11, 2024

    White Paper on Manufacturing Industries 2024

    • Speaker: KAWAMURA Miho (Director, Manufacturing Industries Strategy Planning Office, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
    • Commentator: HASHIMOTO Yuki (Senior Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 9, 2024

    Economic Security - A German perspective

    • Speaker: Clemens von GOETZE (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Japan)
    • Commentator: URATA Shujiro (Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Waseda University / Senior Research Advisor, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA))
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
    • Presentation (H.E. Dr. Goetze) [PDF:285KB]
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Comment, Q&A) (YouTube)

  • July 4, 2024

    New Directions in American Economic Statecraft

    • Speaker: Mireya SOLIS (Director, Center for Asia Policy Studies,Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, The Brookings Institution)
    • Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Waseda University / Senior Research Advisor, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA))
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Q&A) (YouTube)

  • June 26, 2024

    Japan's Energy Policy from the Energy White Paper: The growing global risks surrounding energy, and what Japan should be aiming for

    • Speaker: HIROTA Daisuke (Director / Investment Strategist, Energy Supply and Demand Policy Office / Research and Public Relations Office, Commissioner's Secretariat, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • June 20, 2024

    Economic Security and Geopolitics: Insights into Japan-Korea cooperation based on "Economic Security Indicators"

    • Speaker: Byung Yeon KIM (Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics, Seoul National University)
    • Commentator: Hyeog Ug KWON (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University)
    • Moderator: FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI / University Professor, IER, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Comment, Q&A) (YouTube)

  • June 6, 2024

    The Cost of Conflict: Economic implications of a Taiwan military crisis

    • Speaker: Joris TEER (Associate Analyst for Economic Security and Technology, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS))
    • Moderator: NISHIKAWA Kazumi (Principal Director, Office of Economic Security, Minister's Secretariat, METI)

  • February 7, 2024

    RIETI-METI Joint Project - "Economic Security Seminar" Series

    Recent US Trends in Economic Security

  • January 19, 2024

    Friend-Shoring Security Trumps Economics? : A European perspective

  • January 18, 2024

    Challenges in Advanced Talent Development: The quest for the revival of domestic semiconductors

    • Speaker: HOUKIN Kiyohiro (President, Hokkaido University)
    • Commentator: KANAZASHI Hisashi (Director, IT Industry Division & Director for Digital Infrastructure Policy Office, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Vice Chairman, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • December 22, 2023

    RIETI Open BBL Webinar

    Indo-Pacific Geoeconomics and the U.S.-China Rivalry for Global Hegemony: The Evolution of economic power in international politics

    • Speaker: TERADA Takashi (Professor, Faculty of Law, Doshisha University)
    • Commentator: URATA Shujiro (Chairman, RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Waseda University)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • December 20, 2023

    RIETI-METI Joint Project - "New Horizons of Economic Security" Series

    An Overview of Economic Security (5): From an Industrial Policy Perspective

  • December 19, 2023

    Hidden Exposure: Measuring U.S. supply chain reliance

  • December 13, 2023

    What is “Supply Chain and Technological Basis for Economic Security”? - Securing the future of computing -

    • Speaker: Mukesh KHARE (General Manager, IBM Semiconductors and Vice President of Hybrid Cloud Research, IBM)
    • Moderator: NISHIKAWA Kazumi (Principal Director, Office of Economic Security, Minister's Secretariat, METI)
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Q&A) (YouTube)

  • November 29, 2023

    RIETI-METI Joint Project - "New Horizons of Economic Security" Series

    An Overview of Economic Security (4): Economic Statecraft for Economic Security

    • Speaker: Daleep SINGH (Chief Global Economist and Head of Global Macroeconomic Research at PGIM Fixed Income / Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Director of National Economic Council)
    • Commentator: HIRAI Hirohide (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor, Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI)
    • Moderator: FUKUOKA Noriyoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Principal Deputy Director, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Disccusion, Q&A) (YouTube)

  • November 17, 2023

    RIETI-METI Joint Project - "New Horizons of Economic Security" Series

    An Overview of Economic Security (3): From an academic perspective (U.S. version)

    • Speaker: Matthew GOODMAN (Distinguished Fellow for Global Economic Policy and Director of the Greenberg Center for Global Economic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, USA)
    • Commentator: HIRAI Hirohide (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor, Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI)
    • Moderator: FUKUOKA Noriyoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Principal Deputy Director, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

  • October 16, 2023

    RIETI-METI Joint Project - "New Horizons of Economic Security" Series

    Economic Security and Enterprise (1) - From the Perspective of Digital Industry -

    • Speaker: KOSHIBA Mitsunobu (Co-founder, Cdots LLC / Former Vice President, Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives))
    • Commentator: HIRAI Hirohide (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor, Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI)
    • Moderator: FUKUOKA Noriyoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Principal Deputy Director, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • September 29, 2023

    RIETI-METI Joint Project - "New Horizons of Economic Security" Series

    An Overview of Economic Security (2): The China-Taiwan Situation and Japan

    • Speaker: KANEHARA Nobukatsu (Professor, Doshisha University / Executive Director, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation)
    • Commentator: HIRAI Hirohide (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor, Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI)
    • Moderator: FUKUOKA Noriyoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Principal Deputy Director, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • September 19, 2023

    RIETI-METI Joint Project - "New Horizons of Economic Security" Series

    An Overview of Economic Security (1): From an academic perspective

    • Speaker: SUZUKI Kazuto (Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo / Director, Institute of Geoeconomics, International House of Japan)
    • Commentator: HIRAI Hirohide (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor, Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI)
    • Moderator: FUKUOKA Noriyoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Principal Deputy Director, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 19, 2023

    Innovation: A key pathway to Europe's green deal and economic security

  • June 7, 2023

    Trade Tensions and the US Soft Power

    • Speaker: WEI Shang-Jin (Professor of Finance and Economics, Professor of International Affairs, and N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Columbia University / Former Chief Economist of Asian Development Bank)
    • Commentator: SAHASHI Ryo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo)
    • Commentator: ZHANG Hongyong (Senior Fellow and Policy Advisor, RIETI)
    • Moderator: YIN Ting (Fellow (Specially Appointed) and Policy Advisor, RIETI / Associate Professor, Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University / Associate Professor (Specially Appointed), Tokyo Gakugei University)
    • Presentation (Dr. Wei) [PDF:2.0MB]
    • Comment (Dr. Zhang) [PDF:372KB]
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Comment and Q&A) (YouTube)

  • April 26, 2023

    The East Asian Electronics Sector: The roles of exchange rates, technology transfer, and global value chains

  • January 27, 2023

    “Chip War” and Its Implications for Japanese Industrial and Security Policies

  • July 14, 2022

    Global Intelligence Series

    Japan’s Geoeconomic Strategy in the Indo-Pacific

    • Speaker: KATADA Saori N. (Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California)
    • Commentator: SUGINOHARA Masako (Professor, Faculty of Global and Intercultural Studies, Ferris University)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • February 16, 2022

    Global Intelligence Series

    The Geopolitics of Semiconductors Toward 2030: Who will control strategic materials?

    • Speaker: OTA Yasu (Columnist, NIKKEI)
    • Commentator: NISHIKAWA Kazumi (Director, IT Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: WATANABE Tetsuya (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • September 6, 2021

    Global Intelligence Series

    Economic Security Policy as Growth Strategy and Recent Developments in Trade Rules

  • December 17, 2020

    Global Intelligence Series

    Getting America Back in the Game: A multilateral perspective

  • November 25, 2020

    Global Intelligence Series

    The Geo-Political Tensions between the US-China: ASEAN caught in the middle, the future of the Japan and ASEAN cooperation and the prospects of semiconductor supply chains

  • October 26, 2020

    Global Intelligence Series

    US Sanctions Policy

    • Speaker: SUGITA Hiroki (Columnist)
    • Commentator: KAYAMA Hirobumi (Director, Security Trade Control Policy Division, Trade Control Department, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau & Office of Economic Security, METI)
    • Moderator: WATANABE Tetsuya (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • May 15, 2020

    Global Value Chains in the Aftermath of the Corona Shock

    • Speaker: INOMATA Satoshi (Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Chief Senior Researcher)
    • Moderator: ONODERA Osamu (Deputy Director General for Trade Policy, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • December 9, 2019

    Can the WTO Survive? Rule of Law in the Multilateral Trading System and Japan's Role

    • Speaker: OTABE Yoichi (Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva / Former Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs)
    • Speaker: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Professor, Faculty of Law, Sophia University)
    • Moderator: KURODA Junichiro (Director-General, Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

Discussion Papers / Policy Discussion Papers