On January 22, 2024, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) at Hitotsubashi University hosted the 24th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar titled “The Dictator’s Dilemma at the Ballot Box: Electoral Manipulation, Economic Maneuvering, and Political Order in Autocracies” featuring Dr. Masaaki Higashijima (Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo) as the speaker. […]

An Overview of Attribution in Cyberspace Influence Operations Takamichi Saito (Researcher at Cybersecurity Laboratory and Professor at School of Science and Technology, Meiji University) March 4, 2024 Introduction Assuming readers have backgrounds in IT and data analysis, this paper attempts to outline attribution in cyberspace influence operations (hereafter, attribution) based on the reference [1–4] and […]

On February 11, 2024, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) held the second Milk Tea Alliance Japan strategy meeting. The meeting was conducted in both Japanese and English with simultaneous interpretation, and it brought together activists, journalists, artists from Japan, Hong Kong, Myanmar, and Thailand, all currently residing in Japan. Participants covered recent activity […]

GGR will hold the 26th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar which will be held as below. Anybody who pre-register is welcome to join the event:   Title The Effects of Warring and Civil Oligarchs on Colombia’s Subnational Democracy Speaker Dr. Jan Boesten (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin; Associate Member, University of Oxford) Date March […]