The Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) / Research / Middle East and Africa

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Research on Middle East and Africa

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The Geoeconomics of Gen AI: Middle Power Strategies on Digital Sovereignty

How Is Generative AI Changing Global Competit…

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

From Decline to Surge: The Defense Industry in the Era of Excess Demand (Executive Summary)

As Japan’s security environment deteriorates,…

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Democracy shouldn’t be used as an ideological weapon

Author: Maiko Ichihara, Professor, Graduate S…

Why deploying U.S. Army in the Middle East can strengthen deterrence in the Western Pacific

Under the first Trump administration and the …

Research Associate

Rintaro Inoue

Middle East and Africa

How Sanctions Work: Lessons from the Case of Iran

Host: Paul Nadeau, Visiting Research Fellow, …

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Middle East and Africa

How the Israel-Hamas war is changing the international security order

【Author】Masaki Mizobuchi, Associate Professor…

Russia and Eurasia

How should Japan deal with Ukraine, Gaza and the Indo-Pacific region?

Today’s international security environment in…

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan

Ken Jimbo

The Two Wars and the Elections in 2024

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Middle East and Africa

What the Israel-Hamas war means for U.S. grand strategy

【Author】Takuya Matsuda Project Researcher, R…

What the Hamas-Israel ‘humanitarian pause’ really meant

Almost three months have passed since a confl…

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

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The Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) / Research / Middle East and Africa