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.

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 & Group Head, China
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

Economic Security
The Logic Behind Legally Risky Tariffs
IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. …

Visiting Research Fellow
Paul Nadeau

Diplomacy
Why Trump-Inspired Nationalists in Europe Can’t Stick Together
Across Europe, right-wing leaders are borrowi…

Research Fellow
Yusuke Ishikawa
Ranking
Event Report: The Trump Tariffs and Their Impact on the Japanese Economy2025.11.25
The “Economic Security is National Security” Strategy2025.12.09
The long road to a South Korea-U.S. trade deal2025.11.26
The Real Significance of Trump’s Asia Trip2025.11.14
Trump’s Tariffs Might Be Here to Stay – No Matter Who’s in Power2025.11.28
Other Research
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