The Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) / Research

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.

How should Japan respond to China’s nuclear threat?

Concerns over a potential Taiwan contingency have steadily intensified since 2021, the year former U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Comma

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Views from Tokyo: Geoeconomic Implications of Iran War

Insights into President Trump’s Recent Remarks / Israel’s Ambition and the Resilience of the Iranian Regime / What the Geographica

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Takaichi is right to call for a ‘new technology-driven nation’

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

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kousuke Saito

The Geopolitics of Ports and Pipelines: The Case of The Strait of Hormuz -The Struggle Over Chokepoints-

By Yuki Goto, Visiting Research Fellow Approximately one month has passed since the United States and Israel launched military op

Economic Security

India’s Semiconductor Moment

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

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

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

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

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

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

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The Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) / Research