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 Structural Reforms: Opportunities and Risks

In the recent months, India constituted a high-level reform panel to accelerate business-facing structural reforms. Other key deve

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Diplomacy
The Real Significance of Trump’s Asia Trip

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 23)

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Diplomacy
Trump 2.0 Diminishes European Union Power

Senior Research Fellow

Hitoshi Suzuki

Economic Security
India’s Geoeconomic Options in a Trumpian World

When Donald Trump returned to the White House for a second term, many in India expected a continuation of the visible warmth betwe

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Japan
Can Takaichi Build on a Successful Summit?

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 22)

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Security
The Meaning and Future of Dollar Dominance with Paul Blustein

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

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

Emerging Technology
The Geoeconomics of Generative AI Development Race: How Emerging Technologies Can Become National Power

Generative AI has been progressing at an incredible pace and has become one of the most closely watched emerging technologies. Its

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

Security
From Decline to Surge: The Defense Industry in the Era of Excess Demand (Executive Summary)

As Japan’s security environment deteriorates, demand and expectations for its defense industry are rising sharply. This surge repr

Senior Research Fellow

Hirohito Ogi

Diplomacy
Geoeconomic Summit Introduction

Geoeconomic Summit Introduction / EU-CPTPP Relationship and International Trade Dynamics  / Dealing With the “America First” Unite

Visiting Research Fellow

Andrew Capistrano

Politics and Economics
Hungary’s Electoral System: Constructing a System Favorable to the Governing Party and Its Future Prospects

In April 2026, Hungary will hold its first general election in four years. This election is drawing attention even in Japan, as th

Research Fellow

Yusuke Ishikawa

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