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.
Security
Shifting costs to allies won’t ‘restore’ U.S. maritime dominance

The longstanding maxim that “whoever controls…

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Security
U.S. Naval Strategy and Implications for Japan’s Defense

This article originally appeared in the Japan…

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Security
Japan’s space systems face growing cybersecurity threats

In November, less than a month after taking o…

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Economic Security
Geoeconomic Connectivity Index – user guide

The Geoeconomic Connectivity Index measures t…

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Geoeconomic Connectivity Index

The Geoeconomic Connectivity Index measures t…

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Diplomacy
Trump Is Rebuilding His Tariff Wall – Will the Courts Knock Down this One As Well?

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. …

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Economic security has become central to America’s National Security Strategy

While you wouldn’t know it from the recent U.…

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Diplomacy
Donald Trump, ‘The Art of the Deal” and the ‘TACO’ myth

The drama following U.S. President Donald Tru…

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Economic Security
Local Industrial Policy in China: The Source of Geoeconomic Power and the “Indispensability of Goods”

A key concept for understanding the expansion…

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

Diplomacy
Two Narratives on the Chinese Economy

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. …

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

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