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
Estonia sits on the global frontier (T1) for Human Capital, Governance & Integrity and Investment & Trade, positioning 🇪🇪 Estonia in 7th place globally.
China
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.
National Capability Framework
Mapping the global capability frontier across nine strategic domains
Information & Influence
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
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
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
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
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
Beyond Power, Measuring Frontiers.
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
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,
Mapping national capability through Pareto frontiers, revealing structural strengths, constraints, and power tiers beyond weighted indices.
How GINC uses synthetic expert simulation to rigorously test and refine national capability measurement before human validation.
Why Global Institute for National Capability uses synthetic expert simulation to rigorously test national capability frameworks before empirical validation.
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.
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.
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.
How three-country alliances are quietly reshaping global power, strategy, and the future of international cooperation.
Deterrence and victory will hinge on software speed, resilient networks, and affordable mass.
Intelligence is evolving from a secret state craft into a global, data-driven ecosystem where insight, not access, defines advantage.
China’s new Fujian aircraft carrier signals a bold step toward global naval power, blending technological ambition with strategic intent.
