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ISRS Research
ISRS produces original research at the intersection of technology, security, and strategic competition. Our work spans analytical frameworks, policy proposals, and applied strategic analysis, designed to be theoretically grounded and operationally relevant.
We address questions that existing doctrine has observed but not fully explained: how power is acquired and projected in an era of technological convergence, how deterrence degrades under ambiguity, and how institutions adapt when the pace of change outstrips their design.
Research Outputs
Engineering Strategic Imbalance Through Technological Convergence
Synthetic asymmetry is the deliberate construction of strategic imbalance through the convergence of low-cost, dual-use technologies, enabling actors to generate disproportionate effects independent of traditional measures of power. Where existing frameworks describe what adversaries do and where they operate, synthetic asymmetry explains why a widening range of actors can now produce strategic-level effects regardless of size or resources.
An original ISRS framework, currently under academic review.
Preprint available.
Collaborative Research
Research produced in partnership with leading policy institutions
ISRS partners with policy institutions, think tanks, and academic centers to produce analysis at the intersection of strategic risk, security, and technology. 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.
Flashpoint Reports
Analytical Intelligence on Emerging Strategic Threats
The ISRS Flashpoint Report series delivers concise, evidence-based assessments of high-priority threats at the intersection of intelligence, security, and technology. Each report is produced by analysts with operational backgrounds in national intelligence, cybersecurity, and field advisory work, bringing practitioner judgment to bear on issues that demand clarity, not abstraction. Flashpoint Reports are peer-reviewed, formally cited, and archived with a permanent DOI.
Democratic Cyber Sovereignty Framework
Principled Governance for the Contested Digital Domain
The Democratic Cyber Sovereignty Framework addresses a core tension in contemporary security policy: how democratic states assert meaningful sovereignty over their digital infrastructure without replicating the authoritarian models of control they oppose. The DCSF provides a structured policy architecture for governments navigating this challenge.
Ukrainian Digital Business Entities
Preserving Economic Continuity Under Conditions of Active Conflict
Developed in collaboration with Ukrainian partners, this proposal addresses the legal, structural, and operational mechanisms by which Ukrainian businesses can maintain continuity, access international markets, and preserve institutional capacity during and after active conflict. It represents a practical policy contribution to post-conflict economic resilience.
Research Standards
ISRS research is produced through a structured analytical methodology combining intelligence tradecraft, academic rigor, and domain expertise. Outputs are tested against open-source evidence, subject to internal challenge, and held to standards that serve both practitioner and academic audiences.
About ISRS
The Institute for Strategic Risk and Security (ISRS) is an independent, non-profit NGO focusing on global risk and security.
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