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Security

Just three days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz proclaimed a Zeitenwen

Senior Research Fellow
Kota Umeda

Until recently, it was difficult to imagine Japanese startups entering the defense sector. But a changing security environment and

Group Head, Emerging Technologies
Makoto Shiono

Only days after the Feb. 28 surprise attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran, insurance premiums for commercial tankers tr

Group Head, International Security Order / Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kuniharu Kakihara

Following U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February, Tehran responded by imposing a de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The

Visiting Research Fellow
Yuki Goto

Iran has launched large numbers of one-way attack drones costing only thousands of dollars each into the Persian Gulf, complicatin

Senior Research Fellow
Hirohito Ogi

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. 14)

Visiting Research Fellow
Paul Nadeau

We are approaching 18 months since the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. From contentious tariff negotiations and remar

Research Assistant
Kikyo Taguchi

Paul Nadeau Visiting Research Fellow at IOG Abraham Newman Professor of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georget

Visiting Research Fellow
Paul Nadeau

As China continues to expand its military and uncertainty grows over U.S. alliance commitments, what kind of defense strategy shou

Group Head, International Security Order / Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kuniharu Kakihara

The U.S.-Japan alliance has never been only a military arrangement. During the Cold War, Japan and the United States saw themselve

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Yoshiyuki Kato



