Six pilots covering countries, public goods and global affairs.
India — strategic autonomy, development and regional order
Pilot
Connects India’s great-power trajectory with jobs, public capacity, federal delivery and its role across South Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
India pilot reading
Observed capacity / assessed judgment
Growth
Employment conversion
Public goods
Shock resilience
Observed data and editorial assessment are reported separately.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardNational — Canada, external position
Pilot
Examines Canada's trade, security, development finance and economic-security commitments against the domestic capacity available to deliver them.
Barometer snapshot
Diversification under pressure
Agency
Trade
Defence
Delivery
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
National — Nepal: strategic position, federal delivery and public value
Pilot
Tracks Nepal's foreign relationships alongside federal delivery, jobs, migration, public services, democracy and climate risk.
Barometer snapshot
External leverage, weak conversion
Connectivity
Federal delivery
Jobs
Climate
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardNational — Myanmar: political order, civil war, human security
Pilot
Tracks territorial control, resistance governance, civilian protection, economic fragmentation, regional diplomacy and climate risk.
Barometer snapshot
Contested authority
Protection
Governance
Access
Resilience
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Global — conflict, climate, fragility and anticipatory action
Pilot
A source-rich intelligence dashboard connecting conflict, climate, food, water, displacement, health, governance and institutional capacity.
Barometer snapshot
Conflict, climate and fragility convergence
Conflict
Climate
Food
Institutions
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardThematic — climate adaptation and early action
Pilot
Follows the interval between hazard warning and institutional response, and the financing arrangements that determine whether that interval can close.
Earlier experiments
These products remain public as a record of the Lab's early testing. They may contain useful material, but their scores should not be compared with the maintained pilots and no update schedule is implied.
China — domestic capacity and external influence
Archive
Tracks how economic transition, technology, demography and state capacity shape China’s regional and global strategy.
Barometer snapshot
Material strength, institutional strain
Economy
Technology
Demography
Civic space
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardJapan — strategic normalization and regional public goods
Archive
Follows Japan’s changing security posture, economic statecraft, demographic constraints and role in Asian institution-building.
Barometer snapshot
Resilience through strategic normalization
Institutions
Security
Economy
Demography
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardRepublic of Korea — technology, security and demographic resilience
Archive
Tracks the interaction of alliance strategy, industrial concentration, innovation, demographic pressure and inter-Korean risk.
Barometer snapshot
High capacity, concentrated exposure
Technology
Trade
Security
Demography
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardIndonesia — scale, ASEAN leadership and public-value conversion
Archive
Examines how Indonesia converts demographic and resource scale into institutional influence, resilient growth and regional leadership.
Barometer snapshot
Scale seeking institutional leverage
Growth
ASEAN role
Climate
Governance
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardAustralia — alliance strategy, Pacific engagement and resilience
Archive
Tracks Australia’s alliance integration, Pacific role, climate exposure, economic security and capacity to deliver regional commitments.
Barometer snapshot
Alliance integration and regional reach
Institutions
Security
Pacific role
Climate
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardSouth Sudan — conflict, climate, displacement and state formation
Archive
Connects political settlement, humanitarian conditions, oil dependence, flooding, food insecurity and local institutional capacity.
Barometer snapshot
Fragility across every buffer
Conflict
Food
Climate
Institutions
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardUnited States — systemic power and domestic capacity
Archive
Reads American global strategy alongside institutional cohesion, industrial policy, fiscal capacity and the domestic foundations of external commitments.
Barometer snapshot
Systemic power, domestic fragmentation
Power
Innovation
Institutions
Cohesion
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardUnited Kingdom — post-Brexit strategy and public capacity
Archive
Tracks the UK’s effort to align global ambition, European security, trade strategy and constrained domestic public capacity.
Barometer snapshot
Post-Brexit strategic recalibration
Institutions
Security
Economy
Public capacity
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardNorway — high-trust governance, energy and preventive statecraft
Archive
Examines how Norway combines sovereign wealth, energy power, social trust, climate responsibility and peace and development engagement.
Barometer snapshot
High-trust strategic resilience
Institutions
Public goods
Climate
Security
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 19, 2026
View dashboardRegional — Asia-Pacific: Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Pacific Islands
Archive
Reads the region between the headlines, synthesizing foreign policy developments, geopolitical shifts and new scholarship into signals, gaps and stories worth pursuing.
Barometer snapshot
Competitive interdependence
Integration
Trade
Resilience
Civic space
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 16, 2026
View dashboardNational — Somalia: fragility, climate, conflict, political economy
Archive
Tracks security, climate, hunger, federal politics and external dependence in Somalia.
Barometer snapshot
Compounding systems risk
Food
Climate
Access
Capacity
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Reviewed August 18, 2026
View dashboardNational — Canada, domestic public goods
Archive
Reads the condition of Canada's shared systems by preventive posture rather than by headline spending.
Barometer snapshot
Capacity without equal access
Housing
Health
Climate
Trust
Directional reading; open the dashboard for sources and method.
Thematic — democratic institutions and public trust
Archive
Watches the administrative capacity democratic function depends on between elections, when nobody is looking at it.
Thematic — the information environment as a public good
Archive
Tracks how far public discourse depends on a small number of private systems, and whether any of their claims about it can be independently checked.
Thematic — corporate actors and public goods
Archive
Assesses where corporate decisions carry public consequences, on three separate dimensions and without a rating, ranking or ethics classification.
Emerging issues that may warrant further research, policy development or programming.
Local governments are acquiring greater climate and disaster responsibilities without corresponding finance, data or institutional capability.
Limited employment and declining institutional confidence are turning migration, disengagement and protest into connected systemic pressures rather than separate policy problems.
Platform governance, misinformation and declining trust are weakening the information environment that democratic decision-making requires.