Today’s events are too interconnected to be explained under a single label. An energy crisis is never only about energy. A cyber outage is not merely a technology problem. A student movement cannot be reduced to youth politics. A supply-chain disruption is not just a logistics issue. Every event touches other fields and produces new consequences. This is why IRIS uses the lens of ontological

National power used to be easier to count: population, territory, minerals, army, budget, factories, ports. The actor with more of these was assumed to be stronger. That calculation is now incomplete. In the new world, power is measured not only by what a country possesses, but by how fast, intelligently, and sustainably it can use what it possesses. IRIS Radar’s core judgment is this: na

In its classical sense, a liquidity trap describes a situation in which interest rates fall very low, yet households and firms still refuse to spend or invest. The central bank injects money into the economy, interest rates approach zero, but economic actors choose to wait. Money does not circulate. It remains idle in bank accounts, cash reserves, or financial instruments. Japan’s long defla

In its classical sense, a liquidity trap describes a situation in which interest rates fall very low, yet households and firms still refuse to spend or invest. The central bank injects money into the economy, interest rates approach zero, but economic actors choose to wait. Money does not circulate. It remains idle in bank accounts, cash reserves, or financial instruments. Japan’s long defla

The classical journalistic compass is 5W1H: what, where, when, how, why, and who. It remains useful because it captures the first image of an event. But today’s crises cannot be understood from the first image alone. A missile strike is not only military damage. A crisis in a strait is not only maritime traffic. A software failure is not only a technical problem. Every event now touches ener

States do not have a psychology in the clinical sense, but state behavior has a mood. Sometimes a country speaks, yet refuses contact. It sits at the table, yet avoids real attachment. It wants trade, but fears interdependence. It wants technology, but distrusts open networks. It wants capital, but treats foreign influence as contamination. This is what IRIS Radar calls schizoid geopolitics: a pol

The presence of many factories in one region does not automatically create a cluster. That is only density. A real cluster emerges when firms, suppliers, universities, vocational schools, financial institutions, local governments, and public authorities are able to speak the same economic language. Firms that merely stand next to each other form an industrial zone. Firms that learn together, respo