ResearchResearch Activities

IOG conducts research across five key themes: China, Europe and the United States, economic security, international security order, and emerging technologies. These activities are summarized through essays written by IOG researchers, offering in-depth analysis and insights on these critical areas.
Emerging Technology
A Looming Crisis in U.S. Science and Technology: The Case of NASA’s Science Budget

Barely six months into the second Trump admin…

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Economic Security
Trump and America’s tech giants: Coexistence or collaboration?

Captured in images that immediately went vira…

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

Economic Security
What Comes Next after the Supreme Court Rules on IEEPA?

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. …

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Americas
Trump 2.0 and the U.S.-South Korea Alliance

The progress made at last month’s Oval Office…

Diplomacy
Event Report: Nuclear Weapons, Eighty Years After the War and the Atomic Bombings

On August 23, the Institute of Geoeconomics h…

China
The Fissures Beneath China’s Positive GDP Numbers

As the U.S.-China trade conflict grinds on, C…

Senior Fellow & Group Head, China

Naoko Eto

Economic Security
US-China Trade and the “Great Rebalancing”

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. …

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Politics and Economics
‘Trump Doctrine’ A Fundamental Challenge to Allied Unity

China’s “grand” military parade earlier this …

Security
Exporting Frigates to Australia (Part III: Implications for Defense Equipment Transfer Policy)

The greatest implication for Japan’s defense …

Research Associate

Rintaro Inoue

Asia Pacific
Exporting Frigates to Australia (Part II: Three Risks in Defense Equipment Transfers)

Exporting large, complex defense equipment is…

Research Associate

Rintaro Inoue

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