Focus Areas
Add a focused issue read beside the Foundation
Use Security and Technology to examine concrete policy judgments. Each result remains a separate domain record and leaves the Foundation unchanged.
Available Focus Areas
Choose a policy area to examine first
Each Focus Area produces its own issue record. No Focus Area score is translated onto the Foundation scale.
Security
Security, Strategy, and Statecraft
A focused read on deterrence, alliances, escalation, and the legitimacy of force
The cases examine deterrence, alliances, escalation, and legitimacy through scored issue judgments and separately reported perspective modeling.
Use this when you want a more concrete read than the Foundation alone can give.
Technology
Technology, AI, and Geoeconomics
A focused read on chokepoints, industrial policy, AI governance, and strategic dependence
The cases examine chokepoints, industrial policy, AI governance, and strategic dependence from the positions of sanctioned states, middle powers, and nonaligned actors.
Use this when you want a more concrete read than the Foundation alone can give.
Planned next
Future modules stay visible, but they are not live in this round
The next additions are grouped by function and region. They are roadmap entries, not live routes.
Functional track
Add more issue areas before broadening into regions
Functional modules extend the same separate-record structure without changing the frame of the project.
International Economics and Finance
PlannedA geoeconomic issue read on trade, finance, sanctions, industrial policy, and economic statecraft.
Governance, Politics, and Society
PlannedA domestic-order issue read on institutions, legitimacy, polarization, and state capacity under stress.
Development, Climate, and Sustainability
PlannedA cross-border issue read on growth, resilience, climate pressure, and competing development priorities.
Regional track
Regional lenses come after the underlying language is clearer
Regional modules introduce harder interpretation questions. They stay planned until the core product language is clearer.
China
PlannedA regional lens on how your baseline travels when Chinese strategy, institutions, and historical memory move to the center.
Middle East
PlannedA regional lens on order, rivalry, deterrence, and state survival across a dense security environment.
Africa
PlannedA regional lens on development, sovereignty, external influence, and uneven institutional capacity.
Europe and Eurasia
PlannedA regional lens on alliance politics, continental security, border revision, and institutional constraint.
Asia
PlannedA regional lens on maritime order, balancing behavior, development strategy, and strategic interdependence.
Americas
PlannedA regional lens on hemispheric order, democratic stress, migration, and economic integration.
United States
PlannedA domestic-regional lens on how baseline assumptions hold up inside U.S. strategic debate and statecraft.
Best next additions after this round: International Economics and Finance on the functional side, then China as the first regional flagship.
Same product family
The AI companion and browse surfaces stay adjacent to the IR records
The AI Governance Compass runs alongside the IR Foundation and issue records. The field guide and Profile keep the whole product legible rather than scattering the pieces across separate experiences.