Author - Ryohei Suzuki

Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University. His research focuses on disinformation, and information operations by China and Russia within the fields of international politics and comparative politics. In his doctoral dissertation, he analyzed the social factors that facilitate the spread of disinformation using election cases from Japan and Taiwan. At the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, he is responsible for maintaining the “Indo-Pacific Disinformation Portal” database and producing newsletters on information and cognitive warfare. In addition, he has contributed to the development of indicators for “China Index: Japan” (Doublethink Lab) and translated Chapters 5 through 7 of Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency (London: Penguin Books, 2019) into Japanese.