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.
Diplomacy
③So called Reciprocal Tariffs (Deciphering Trump Administration)

①Deciphering Trump Administration: Is Trump irrational or a mastermind? • ①Is Trump irrational or a mastermind? (Dec...

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Diplomacy
②What does Tariff Man want (Deciphering Trump Administration

①Deciphering Trump Administration: Is Trump irrational or a mastermind? • ①Is Trump irrational or a mastermind? (Dec...

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Diplomacy
①Is Trump irrational or a mastermind? (Deciphering Trump Administration)

②Deciphering Trump Administration: What does "Tariff Man" want? • ②What does Tariff Man want (Deciphering Tr... ③Deciphe

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Emerging Technology
The Power of Private Individuals: The Informal Influence of Technology

In his farewell address, President Biden sounded the alarm on the emergence of the "tech-industrial complex," drawing a parallel t

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kousuke Saito

Emerging Technology
Navigating Uncertainty in U.S. Space Policy: Decoding Elon Musk’s Influence

When President Trump declared in his second inauguration speech that "launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Politics and Economics
Will China succeed in remaking Hong Kong in its own image?

Toru Kurata, Professor, Rikkyo University Over the past five years, Hong Kong has seen its autonomy, freedom and democracy eroded

Economic Security
Identifying choke points in the semiconductor supply chain

The COVID-19 pandemic brought shortages of masks, medical supplies, automotive semiconductors and IC chips for contactless cards,

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Eiki Tagami

Economic Security
After tariffs: Is there a plan to restructure the global economic system?

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 7)

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Economic Security
Personnel Is (Trade) Policy

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 6)

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Politics and Economics
Resilient Yet Vulnerable: India’s Economy, Markets, and Global Positioning (INDIA ROUNDUP, March 2025)

Summary The Indian economy is facing slowdown concerns and severe market fluctuations, amid shifting investor priorities. For n

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

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