My name is Matthew Brummer and I'm an assistant professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. I am also currently a Policy Innovations Fellow in the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University, where I teach a course titled "Science, Technology and National Security: Japan in Global Perspective" in the Government Department. 

My primary department affiliation at GRIPS is with the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Program (STI), and my secondary affiliations are with the Security Studies (SISP) and Global Leadership (GLD) programs. I teach across these departments, including: International Relations; Research Methods; Politics of Innovation; Policy Analysis; and several research seminars for both M.A. and Ph.D. students. 

My primary research project examines the relationship between international politics and science, technology and innovation (STI), including at the global, regional, national, and sub-national levels of analysis. I also examine Japanese foreign policy especially with small but impactful states (e.g. Israel, Taiwan, Singapore) and defense policy with a focus on technology.  I'm a core member of the "World and Japan database" project and the "Shinzo Abe Assassination Dataset" (SAAD). 

My advisees, or zemi, currently include eleven MA and six Ph.D. students. Please be in touch if you are a current or prospective GRIPS or Harvard student interested in studying the interconnection between technology, economics, and politics broadly defined.