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
Japan-India Cooperation Takes Off

The 15th India-Japan Annual Summit in August 2025 produced an unusually ambitious set of bilateral frameworks: the Economic Securi

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Diplomacy
Canada’s China recalibration: Rapprochement or risk-hedging?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney drew global attention at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he argu

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

Security
Shifting costs to allies won’t ‘restore’ U.S. maritime dominance

The longstanding maxim that “whoever controls the sea controls the world” reflects the central role of maritime power in ensuring

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Security
U.S. Naval Strategy and Implications for Japan’s Defense

This article originally appeared in the Japanese journal "Foresight".

Research Fellow

Rintaro Inoue

Security
Japan’s space systems face growing cybersecurity threats

In November, less than a month after taking office, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi established the Japan Growth Strategy Headquarte

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda

Economic Security
Geoeconomic Connectivity Index – user guide

The Geoeconomic Connectivity Index measures the extent to which a country is economically linked and integrated into global market

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Geoeconomic Connectivity Index

The Geoeconomic Connectivity Index measures the extent to which a country is economically linked and integrated into global market

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Diplomacy
Trump Is Rebuilding His Tariff Wall – Will the Courts Knock Down this One As Well?

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 5 No. 08)

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Economic Security
Economic security has become central to America’s National Security Strategy

While you wouldn’t know it from the recent U.S.-Israeli military confrontation with Iran, the latest U.S. National Security Strate

Director & Group Head, Economic Security

Kazuto Suzuki

Diplomacy
Donald Trump, ‘The Art of the Deal” and the ‘TACO’ myth

The drama following U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” just over a year ago seemed to confirm a simple theory. On Apri

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

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