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As China continues to expand its military and uncertainty grows over U.S. alliance commitments, what kind of defense strategy shou

Group Head, International Security Order / Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kuniharu Kakihara

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

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

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

Senior Research Fellow
Hirohito Ogi

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

Visiting Research Fellow
Andrew Capistrano

The Trump administration’s policy of pressing U.S. allies to shoulder more of the defense burden has fueled fears of “abandonment”

Senior Research Fellow
Hirohito Ogi

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

Visiting Research Fellow
Paul Nadeau

Author: Kuniharu Kakihara Faced with two wars, one in Europe and the other in the Middle East, as well as rising tensions in Ea

The worldview shaped by the “unipolar moment” — the period after the Cold War when the United States wielded overwhelming influenc

Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan
Ken Jimbo

When Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand took part in the NATO summit in Washington in July, the so-called Indo-Pacific

Research Fellow
Rintaro Inoue
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Japan and India: Historic Strategic Convergence2026.07.07
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