ISII
Pivotal Thinking

Pivotal thinking for consequential decisions.

ISII’s research reads geopolitics, technology, cognition and capital in one frame — identifying structural shifts before they become consensus. The insights are public. The application is personal: on the Platform, every paper arrives with its implications attached, applied by the Strategist to the reader’s own position.

Membership

Read the research. Then act on it.

Members work with the Institute’s full body of thought on the Platform — every paper, current and historical, with the Strategist alongside to apply it. Members receive new work as it publishes, convene at the Institute’s salons and annual Summit, and carry the research into their own mandates. Seats are held by subscription, underwritten by funders for mandate-holders, and included in every Institute engagement.

Access follows responsibility, not status.

The record

Selected body of thought.

2026
July 2026The Age of Cognitive EmpiresRead →
June 2026China's Turning PointRead →
May 2026Are We Heading Towards a Third World War?Read →
April 2026National Prosperity Is the Key to Survival: Britain's New Big BangRead →
March 2026Rethinking Large-Scale Investment Strategies in a Changing WorldRead →
February 2026Intervention as Statecraft: Risk and Response Under the U.S. National Security StrategyRead →
January 2026The Themes Defining 2026: A Prelude to Great ReformationsRead →
2026Technologies Shaping the Future — Report 2026Read →
2025
December 2025America the Merchant Power: The National Security StrategyRead →
November 2025The Tech-Leveraged Empire: The Strategic Limits of US PowerRead →
October 2025America's New Golden Age — or Gilded One?Read →
September 2025The World Investment Plan: Leveraging Capital Markets for a Peaceful TransitionRead →
August 2025Turbulent Times: A Framework for Navigating Global CrisisRead →
July 2025Project 2025: Trump Remaking the WorldRead →
June 2025Cycles of Violence: The Impact of US Intervention in Overseas ConflictsRead →
May 2025Tariffs and Trade Wars: Can They Help America Create Prosperity?Read →
April 2025The Strength of America's Economic FoundationsRead →
March 2025The Levers of US Foreign Policy EffectivenessRead →
February 2025The President's Executive Orders: Reshaping America's PlaceRead →
January 2025The Next Four Years: Judging Success and FailureRead →
2025The World Investment Plan — Capital as a Force for Good, 2025 ReportRead →
2025Technology as a Force for Good — 2025 ReportRead →
2024
September 2024Funding the Sustainable Development GoalsRead →
April 2024The End of Yesterday: The Future Is UnderwayRead →
March 2024Technology as a Force for GoodRead →
2023
December 2023Artificial Intelligence: From Slave to MasterRead →
November 2023The Consequences of Local Conflicts on Global StabilityRead →
September 2023India's G20 Presidency: Spotlighting the Drivers of Its Growth EngineRead →
August 2023A Technology Roadmap for a Better WorldRead →
June 2023The Asian Half Century: Challenging the Great PowersRead →
May 2023India's US$50 Trillion Value Creation OpportunityRead →
April 2023India–Russia Relations: The War in Ukraine and Asia's Rising SuperpowerRead →
March 2023Scenarios and Potential Choices as the Climate ChangesRead →
2022
November 2022Xi Achieves Absolute Power: For What Greater Purpose?Read →
May 2022Innovation Breakthrough: Five Opportunities to Reshape the WorldRead →
2020
December 2020Quadrilateral Power Blocs: Shaping World DemocracyRead →
2017
December 2017Global Hubs: Engines for ProsperityRead →
2013
December 2013China's Third Plenum: The Power Shifts Behind the ReformsRead →

Every paper opens here in brief. Members and guests read the full work on the Platform.

Publishing autumn–winter 2026 — free to read and cite. The working datasets live on the Platform.
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?

Read the whole picture. Then move on it.

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