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
Democracy-minded Yoon faces challenges in dealing with China

【Author】NISHINO Junya Professor of Department of Political Science, the Director of the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies, K

Diplomacy
Why ASEAN is key to building order in the Indo-Pacific region

【Author】KOGA Kei Associate Professor of International Relations, Nanyang Technological University This article was posted to t

Economic Security
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 2 No. 10)

G7 Leaders Tackle Economic Coercion and More / An Agreement in IPEF / APEC Trade Ministerial / Micron Fails Security Review in Chi

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Diplomacy
The future lies in helping to make China a responsible superpower

At the Group of Seven leaders summit held in Hiroshima in May, a major hidden agenda item was how to handle China. The G7 leade

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Hotaka Machida

Economic Security
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 2 No. 9)

Another round / Counter Espionage Concerns / Targeting Transhipments / No New Tariffs / New Subsidy Plan / Analysis: Political Pol

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Diplomacy
China’s vision of an international order firmly in the shadows of the G7

At the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima in May, leaders once again condemned in the strongest possible terms the war of aggressi

Visiting Senior Fellow

Naoko Eto

Diplomacy
Taking inspiration from Hiroshima to reconstruct the global nuclear order

【Author】Sadamasa Oue, Consulting Senior Fellow Group Head, International Security Order, Institute of Geoeconomics Lieutenant Gen

Diplomacy
What Japan can learn from a leader’s diplomacy four decades ago

In the seven times that Japan hosted the Group of Seven leaders’ summit — with the latest held in Hiroshima earlier this month — T

Group Head, Europe & Americas

Yuichi Hosoya

Economic Security
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 2 No. 8)

The New Washington Consensus / Ambassador Tai Visits Japan / Back on the Fast-Track / Agreeing to Discuss / Expanding the Entity L

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Why the G7 has significance as a collective economic defense mechanism

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine still continuing after more than a year, confrontation between the United States and China inten

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

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