The MEMBER Circle
A small circle that can make a difference.
The Member Circle is ISII’s invitation-only circle of power: serving and former officials, financiers, technologists, academics and thinkers and actors who can make a difference to sovereignty and human agency. Members receive every paper first, can receive private briefings before public release, and convene at the Institute’s salons and annual Summit.
Admission is by invitation or member nomination. Membership is for those with the will to act to create a more sovereign and free world.
The full analysis is read in the Member Circle. Membership is by invitation.
The record
Selected body of thought.
2026
The Age of Cognitive Empires
World Affairs (Wiley) · Ketan Patel · the founding paper of Cognitive Sovereignty
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Feb 2026
Technologies Shaping the Future
ISII & Force for Good · 118 pages · the chokepoints of the technology economy
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Mar 2026
Rethinking Large-Scale Investment Strategies in a Changing World
ISII · the structural break beneath conventional allocation
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Apr 2026
National Prosperity is the Key to Survival: Britain’s New Big Bang
Essay · prosperity as the base of national sovereignty
Reserved for the Circle
Jan 2026
The Themes Defining 2026
Strategic context · ten arenas that decide the year
Reserved for the Circle
2026
The US–China Beijing Summit
Strategic context · the great-power reading behind the year’s pivotal meeting
Reserved for the Circle
2026
Intervention as Statecraft: Risk and Response Under the U.S. National Security Strategy
Strategic context · intervention normalised as a routine instrument of governance
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2026
Are We Heading Towards a Third World War?
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
Nov 2025
The Tech-Leveraged Empire: Strategic Limits of US Power
Essay · the strategic limits of technology-leveraged power
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Sep 2025
The World Investment Plan
Capital as a Force for Good · the US$123tn transition task, priced country by country
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Sep 2025
Leveraging Capital Markets for a Peaceful Transition to the Systems Era
GPC research · the capital exists; national systems of enterprise decide who prospers
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Aug 2025
Turbulent Times
Strategic context · the turbulence is a transition between eras, not a collapse
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2025
Technology as a Force for Good
Force for Good · where technology’s benefit is needed most
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2025
America the Merchant Power (NSS)
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2025
America’s New Golden Age or a Gilded One?
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2025
Project 2025, Trump and the Year Ahead
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2025
Cycles of Violence: US Intervention
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2025
Tariffs & Trade Wars
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2025
Strength of America’s Economic Foundations
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2025
Levers of US Foreign Policy
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2025
The President’s Executive Orders
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2025
The Next Four Years
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
Sep 2024
Funding the Sustainable Development Goals
Essay · the financing gap beneath the development agenda
Reserved for the Circle
Apr 2024
The End of Yesterday, The Future is Well Underway
Essay · the infrastructure and rules of the Information Age, being set now
Reserved for the Circle
Dec 2023
Artificial Intelligence: From Slave to Master
Essay · the early statement of the cognitive-capture thesis
Reserved for the Circle
Oct 2023
Capital as a Force for Good: Solving the SDG Gap
Report · the capital-mobilisation record beneath the plan
Reserved for the Circle
Aug 2023
Technology Roadmap for a Better World
Essay
Reserved for the Circle
2023
Consequences of Local Conflicts
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2023
India’s G20
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
May 2022
Innovation Breakthrough: Five Opportunities to Reshape the World
Essay
Reserved for the Circle
2022
The Asian Half Century
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2022
India’s $50 Trillion Opportunity
Essay
Reserved for the Circle
2022
India, Russia and Ukraine
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2022
Xi Achieves Absolute Power
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2021
Scenarios as the Climate Changes
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
2020
Quadrilateral Power Blocs
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
Dec 2017
Global Hubs: Engines for Prosperity
Report
Reserved for the Circle
2013
China’s Third Plenum
Strategic context
Reserved for the Circle
Publishing autumn-WINTER 2026 — read first in the MEMBER Circle
The Cognitive Sovereignty Index
Who still governs how their people think — 179 nations on one ladder.
The Growth & Prosperity Map
Markets price power. They should price durability.
The Technology Index
At seven chokepoints, who holds leverage — and who is exposed?
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