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National Security: 2025 National Capability Ratings
How national security capabilities shape power, prosperity and resilience, have driven the rise and decline of nations, and define the current leaders in military and strategic advantage
🇨🇳 China’s National AI Strategy
China’s AI push has shifted from catching up at home to setting the rules abroad, melding chip self-reliance, state capital, and Digital-Silk-Road diplomacy into a single strategic engine.
🇮🇷 Iran: 2025 National Capability Ratings
Iran is notably a T4 Frontier, National Security nation with a clear strength in Hard Power and much weaker Soft and Economic Power profiles
🇦🇺 Australia: 2025 National Capability Ratings
Australia sits 19th on the Global Capability Frontier, with strong performance all around, but lacking a T1 role in any of the nine capability domains.
🇷🇺 Russia's National AI Strategy
Russia is not racing to lead AI globally, it is engineering an AI system it can control, sustain, and deploy under pressure.
🌍 Africa: 2025 National Capability Ratings
🇲🇦 Morocco leads Africa's Capability Frontier in T4 Information & Influence followed by T5 in National Security. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia sits on T4 for Productivity and Innovation and 🇪🇬 Egypt T5 for National Security
🇹🇼 Taiwan: 2025 National Capability Ratings
QUICK TAKE · AI Summary * 🇹🇼 Taiwan's strengths are in Production & Innovation and Investment & Trade where it holds a Tier 2 position in capability. * 🇹🇼 Taiwan ranks 18th globally across the nine capability domains, just behind the 🇬🇧 United Kingdom and just ahead of 🇦🇺 Australia. * GINC's National Capability
🇪🇪 Estonia: 2025 National Capability Ratings
Estonia sits on the global frontier (T1) for Human Capital, Governance & Integrity and Investment & Trade, positioning 🇪🇪 Estonia in 7th place globally.
🇨🇳 China: 2025 National Capability Ratings
China is ranked 2nd in the Hard Capability domain behind the US, however ranks 15th across all nine capability domains, reflecting still emerging Soft Capabilities and Economic Capabilities.
2025 National Capability Ratings
Mapping the global capability frontier across nine strategic domains
Information & Influence: 2025 National Capability Ratings
How nations project influence: GINC assesses social cohesion, diplomacy, diaspora networks, and cultural reach—revealing Nordic leaders and US dominance in different domains.
Capability Ratings
Understanding Capability Profiles: The Shape of Competitive Advantage
GINC analyzes national competitive position through three capability profiles, Balanced, Specialized or Asymmetric, using Pareto methodology to reveal how nations structure their strengths.
Critical Technology
Defining Critical Technology: A Comparative Framework Analysis
Critical technology frameworks vary by nation. US tracks 18 areas, China 10 sectors, EU 10 domains, yet all recognize AI, quantum, semiconductors, and biotech as essential to national power and prosperity.
Critical Technology
Critical Technology: 2025 National Capability Ratings
How advanced technologies shape power, prosperity, and resilience, have driven the rise and decline of nations, and define the current leaders in critical technology
Economic Power
Economic Power: 2025 National Capability Ratings
QUICK TAKE · AI Summary * Bullet * Bullet * Bullet Figure 1. Top 20 Economic Power Nations Posn Country Financial Strength Production & Innovation Investment & Trade 1🇸🇬 SingaporeTier 1Tier 1Tier 1 1🇺🇸 United StatesTier 1Tier 1Tier 1 3🇨🇭 SwitzerlandTier 2Tier 1Tier 1 3🇰🇷 South KoreaTier 2Tier 1Tier 1 3🇸🇪 SwedenTier 1Tier 1Tier
Soft Power
Soft Power: 2025 National Capability Ratings
QUICK TAKE · AI Summary * Bullet * Bullet * Bullet This article presents a domain-based assessment of soft power, evaluated across multiple foundational pillars such as culture, diplomacy, education, information and influence, and people-to-people connectivity. Rather than relying on composite indices, countries are assessed using Pareto tiering, which preserves the structure and balance
Hard Power
Hard Power: 2025 National Capability Ratings
QUICK TAKE · AI Summary * Hard-power frontiers are scarce: only a small number of states combine high-tier technology, infrastructure, and security, while most cluster below clear structural ceilings. * Position reflects balance, not standout strengths: countries with consistently strong profiles outrank those excelling in only one domain. * Regional structure shapes outcomes: Europe,
National Capability Framework
Mapping the Capability Frontier. Power, Capability Tiers and Pareto Domination.
Mapping national capability through Pareto frontiers, revealing structural strengths, constraints, and power tiers beyond weighted indices.
Artificial Intelligence
Building Synthetic Expert Panels for National Capability Analysis
How GINC uses synthetic expert simulation to rigorously test and refine national capability measurement before human validation.
Artificial Intelligence
Synthetic Simulation as a Hypothesis-Building Instrument in National Capability Research
Why Global Institute for National Capability uses synthetic expert simulation to rigorously test national capability frameworks before empirical validation.
Photonic Sensors
Photonic Sensors: Measuring the Physical World Through Light to Power Modern National Capability
Using light to sense, measure, and secure the physical world, photonic sensors are becoming a foundational technology for national security, critical infrastructure resilience, advanced industry, and next-generation healthcare.
Space
🇷🇺 Russia’s Baikonur Breakdown: What the Launchpad Mishap Reveals About Its Space Future
The Soyuz launchpad failure at Baikonur exposes deep structural weaknesses in Russia’s space program and raises hard questions about its long‑term role in human spaceflight.
Submarines
🇰🇷 South Korea, the 🇺🇸 United States and the New Nuclear Submarine–Fuel Bargain
Washington’s approval for South Korean nuclear-powered submarines and a 50–50 enrichment joint venture deepens alliance cooperation while sharpening questions over autonomy, latency and non‑proliferation.