ISRS partners with policy institutions, think tanks, and academic centers to produce analysis at the intersection of strategic risk, security, and technology. These are working collaborations built around shared analytical problems, where both institutions contribute substantively to the final product, not affiliation or endorsement arrangements.
The challenges ISRS tracks span a range of domains: synthetic threats, democratic resilience, critical infrastructure, and the erosion of strategic deterrence. Collaborative research is how ISRS engages the broader community of practitioners, academics, and policy professionals working across those areas.
Co-authored work produced through these partnerships is attributed to both institutions and developed to the same analytical standards as all ISRS research.
Strategic Pattern Register
Most strategic analysis treats cyber intrusions, information operations, and coercive pressure campaigns as separate incidents. The Strategic Pattern Register tracks how these behaviors recur across actors, regions, and domains, and it builds a structured evidence base so researchers can catch patterns while they're still forming, not just after the fact. The initial pilot examines three behaviors: Strategic Spillover, Attention Saturation, and Distributed Coercion, using cyber conflict cases as its starting evidence base.
Synthetic Asymmetry and the CRINK Challenge
China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea do not need a formal alliance to threaten democratic institutions. This paper examines how technological convergence enables each CRINK actor to independently generate systemic pressure against the liberal international order, and what an effective response requires before adversaries set the terms instead.
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