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

Diplomacy
From “Non-Alignment” to “Multi-Alignment”: India’s Place in the Global Order
India–U.S. Trade Relations and Historical Con…

Visiting Research Fellow
Andrew Capistrano

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
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
Ranking
The “Economic Security is National Security” Strategy2025.12.09
Oil, Debt, and Dollars: The Geoeconomics of Venezuela2026.01.07
The Tyranny of Geography: Okinawa in the era of great power competition2024.02.09
Is China Guardian of the ‘Postwar International Order’?2025.12.17
The Real Significance of Trump’s Asia Trip2025.11.14
Other Research
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