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.
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

Security
Exporting Frigates to Australia (Part I: Why Japan Won the Bid)

Will the only way to distinguish between Aust…

Research Associate

Rintaro Inoue

Economic Security
The Logic Behind Legally Risky Tariffs

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. …

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

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