Step 2 · Focus-area modules

Add a focused overlay to the Foundation

Use Security and Technology to see where your Foundation result holds, hardens, or starts to split in concrete cases.

What this layer coversSecurity and Technology begin from familiar policy debates, then test the baseline from a smaller number of other vantage points.
How long it takesStandard is the shorter issue read. Advanced adds extra cases and a smaller number of actor-lens pressure tests.
What it does not claimA module result is an issue read, not a better or truer Foundation result.

Available modules

Choose the focus area you want to pressure-test first

Each module keeps your Foundation in view while the cases become more specific and politically exposed.

Security

Security, Strategy, and Statecraft

A focused read on deterrence, alliances, escalation, and the legitimacy of force

Most cases start from familiar security debates about deterrence, alliances, escalation, and legitimacy. A smaller set of pressure tests shifts to exposed partners, rival powers, and nonaligned states when the vantage point changes the strategic read.

Open Security questionnaire

Use this when you want a more concrete read than the Foundation alone can give.

What it covers
Deterrence and escalation · Alliances and autonomy · Order, legitimacy, and protection
How long it takes
Standard: 8 to 10 minutes · Advanced: 14 to 18 minutes
9 standard questions · 15 advanced questions
What it does not claim
a fixed security identity that overrides the Foundation baseline.

Technology

Technology, AI, and Geoeconomics

A focused read on chokepoints, industrial policy, AI governance, and strategic dependence

Most cases start from familiar debates about chokepoints, industrial policy, AI governance, and strategic dependence. A smaller set of pressure tests shifts to sanctioned, middle-power, and nonaligned perspectives when the vantage point changes the policy read.

Open Technology questionnaire

Use this when you want a more concrete read than the Foundation alone can give.

What it covers
Controls and dependence · Capacity and industrial policy · Governance, access, and safety
How long it takes
Standard: 8 to 10 minutes · Advanced: 14 to 18 minutes
9 standard questions · 15 advanced questions
What it does not claim
a stable technology identity that overrides the Foundation baseline.

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 Foundation-to-module structure without changing the frame of the project.

International Economics and Finance

Planned

A geoeconomic overlay on trade, finance, sanctions, industrial policy, and economic statecraft.

Governance, Politics, and Society

Planned

A domestic-order overlay on institutions, legitimacy, polarization, and state capacity under stress.

Development, Climate, and Sustainability

Planned

A cross-border overlay 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

Planned

A regional lens on how your baseline travels when Chinese strategy, institutions, and historical memory move to the center.

Middle East

Planned

A regional lens on order, rivalry, deterrence, and state survival across a dense security environment.

Africa

Planned

A regional lens on development, sovereignty, external influence, and uneven institutional capacity.

Europe and Eurasia

Planned

A regional lens on alliance politics, continental security, border revision, and institutional constraint.

Asia

Planned

A regional lens on maritime order, balancing behavior, development strategy, and strategic interdependence.

Americas

Planned

A regional lens on hemispheric order, democratic stress, migration, and economic integration.

United States

Planned

A 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 overlays

The AI Governance Compass runs alongside the IR Foundation and issue overlays. The field guide and Profile keep the whole product legible rather than scattering the pieces across separate experiences.