The Asia Pacific Initiative (API) has, over the past two years, been producing its series of API Geoeconomic Briefing articles with a focus on post-pandemic mega-geoeconomics ¡ª power balance, international order and civilization.

With the establishment of the Institute of Geoeconomics after API¡¯s merger with the International House of Japan on July 1, the series will now run under a new Geoeconomic Briefing tag.

A week after the establishment of the institute, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot during a speech in Nara.