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The International Academies of Social Sciences study strategic resources and the technologies that reach them — from the Eurasian interior since 2016 and the Tibetan plateau since 2021 — and read that record, from London since 2023, against the behaviour of emerging powers and the law they claim to keep.
The branches
Two field branches, now frozen as archives following the July 2026 Chinese ethnic unity law, and an actively publishing seat in London.
Ürümqi, China
xjass.org· formerly xjass.org.cnArchived July 2026
The federation's centre for strategic resources and technology in the Eurasian interior: critical minerals, energy corridors, water allocation, and the industrial technologies that move them.
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Lhasa, China
tbass.org· formerly tbass.org.cnArchived July 2026
The federation's centre for high-altitude strategic resources and technology: headwaters and glacial hydrology, lithium and geothermal provinces, and the engineering that functions at altitude.
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London, United Kingdom
ldass.orgActive
The federation's centre for international relations, emerging powers and the rule of law — where the resource and technology record from the field branches is read against the behaviour of states.
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Research
Eight programmes, from critical minerals and corridors to emerging powers and the rule of law.
Hydrological systems, glacial and permafrost change, drought and land-cover transition, treated as measurable environmental systems rather than as a single climate narrative.
Import dependence, storage, interconnection and electrification measured as network properties, with exposure separated from resilience.
Deposits, processing capacity, commodity specialisation and supply-chain concentration, from extraction through to the terms on which output is sold.
Border facilities, rail and road corridors, customs throughput and aviation, distinguishing physical connectivity from realised movement.
Latest
Research · August 2026
The London strand closes the summer with a compliance-audit benchmark for autonomous systems under European AI obligations, and a paired study asking whether machine-mediated analysis manufactures convergence between Washington, Brussels and London where none exists.
Method · July 2026
A July entry holds UK, EU and US retrieval indexes strictly apart inside a single collaborative workflow, and scores whether institution-specific assumptions survive the exchange. A second entry runs bounded infrastructure counterfactuals with conformal uncertainty.
Archive · July 2026
Following the enactment of the Chinese ethnic unity law, the Eurasian interior and Tibetan plateau strands ceased publication. xjass.org and tbass.org are frozen and held as read-only archives; the research ends at June 2026 for both.
Fellowship
Fellows are elected for work that changed what the federation knows about resources, technology or order. Where a fellow's safety requires it, the election is recorded but not announced.
