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
India’s Semiconductor Moment

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Security
Redesigning U.S.-Japan security in a ‘two-peer’ nuclear era

Late last year, the Trump administration released the National Security Strategy 2025 (NSS 2025), a document that carries a distin

Group Head, International Security Order / Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kuniharu Kakihara

Diplomacy
Don’t Count on U.S. Domestic Politics to Constrain Trump on Iran

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. 06)

Security
War in the Persian Gulf means volatility in the global energy market

Last month’s U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran, and the subsequent spike in energy prices, serve as a stark reminder that a stable suppl

Program Coordination Manager

Akihiko Sasaki

Diplomacy
Japan’s Post-Election Economic Security Agenda

  Geoeconomic Agenda is a new Pacific-centric, globally-minded podcast that investigates the connections between economics

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Is the Iran Operation Really About China?

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. 05)

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Diplomacy
China’s long-range DF-27 missiles are a game changer

Long before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi drew Beijing’s ire by stating the obvious — that a Chinese military assault on Taiwan co

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Economic Security
India’s Rising Gravitational Pull

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Diplomacy
Lessons for Japan from Russia’s war in Ukraine

[Author: Yuichi Yoshida, LEAP Fellow]] With a mandate after its Feb. 8 election victory, the government of Prime Minister Sanae T

Diplomacy
U.S. Supreme Court Decision to Block IEEPA Tariffs

Supreme Court Invalidation of IEEPA Tariffs/ The System of Checks and Balances / What Happens Next: Refunds and Section 122 Tariff

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

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