Professor, Sophia University / Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Geoeconomics
Kousuke Saitou is a professor in the Faculty of Global Studies at Sophia University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in International Political Economy from the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Before joining Sophia University as a professor of international security studies, he was an associate professor at Yokohama National University, Japan. His current research focuses on International Relations, Security Studies, Technology Management, and Innovation Politics. His recent publications include “Techno-Minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: Fragmented Harmony and Emerging Disharmony” (Journal of International Security, vol. 53, no. 2, 2025 [in Japanese]), “Japan’s National Security and Science-Technology Management” (in Leszek Buszynski, ed., Handbook of Japanese Security, Amsterdam University Press, 2023), and “The Ambivalence of CFIUS in Balancing Values: The Innovation Ecosystem Dilemma for National Security” (Journal of International Security, vol. 49, no. 1, 2021 [in Japanese]).