BRUMMER, Matthew

Position Assistant Professor
Degree Ph.D.
Specialty Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STI); International Relations Theory; Japanese foreign and security policy
Current Research Interests The political determinants of STI; Threat perception in international relations; Japanese military innovation; Emerging 21st century technology, especially the “Battery Wars”

Professional Appointments:

2022-present: Assistant Professor, GRIPS

2020-2022: Lecturer, GRIPS

2015-2023: Consultant, METI

2017-2019: Lecturer, Hosei University

2016-2019: Contributor, The Economist

 

Recent Publications:

・Kamikawa, Y. and Brummer, M. (2024). “Cross-national and cross-sectoral dynamics of innovation policies: The case of lithium-ion battery technology for electric vehicles in the U.S. and China,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 201. Elsevier.

 

Brummer, M. and Bamkin, S. (2024). “The early emergence of ombuds systems in Japanese science universities,” Science and Public Policy. Oxford.

 

Brummer, M. and Ueno, H. (2024). “Crisis and choice in digital transformation: COVID-19 and the punctuated politics of government DX in Japan,” Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration. Routledge.

 

Brummer, M. and Oren, E. (2023) “Beyond Power, Before Interdependence,” in Nakamura and Wright ed. Japan-Middle East Relations. Palgrave.

 

Brummer, M. and Yennie Lindgren, W. (2023). “Anarchy is a Bridge: Russia and China and pushing NATO and Japan together,” War on the Rocks.

 

・Go, C. and Brummer, M. (2023) “Power, governance, and global value chains,” Asian Journal of Technology Innovation. Routledge.

 

Brummer, M. (2022). “Innovation and Threats,” Defence and Peace Economics. 33:5. Routledge.

 

Brummer, M. and Oren, E. (2022). “We must protect this peace with our hands: Strategic culture and Japan’s use of force in international disputes,” Journal of Advanced Military Studies.

 

・Oren, E. and Brummer, M. (2020). “Reexamining Threat Perception in Early Cold War Japan,” Journal of Cold War Studies. 22:4. MIT.

 

・Oren, E. and Brummer, M. (2020). “Threat Perception, Government Centralization, and Political Instrumentality in Abe Shinzo’s Japan,” Australian Journal of International Affairs. 74:6. Routledge.

 

Brummer, M. (2019). “Bridges over Troubled History: Japan’s Foreign Policy in Asia,” International Studies Review. 21:1. Oxford.

 

・Schmid, J.,Brummer, M. & Taylor, M.Z. (2017). “Innovation and Alliances,” Review of Policy Research. 34:5. Wiley.

 

Brummer, M. and Oren, E. (2017). “Israel and Japan’s Rising Sun Relations,” Foreign Affairs. CFR.

 

Brummer, M. (2017). “Tangoing with Schumpeter: The Security Politics of Science & Technology,” International Studies Review. 19:2. Oxford.

 

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