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London Academy of Social Sciences
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.
London, United Kingdom

- Established
- 2023
- Programs & units
- 6
- Active programmes
- 4
- Publishing status
- Open
Mandate
What the academy was established to do
- Analyse the strategic behaviour of emerging powers and middle powers
- Study the rule of law as an operating constraint on resource and technology competition
- Maintain the federation's international relations and grand-strategy programme
- Preserve, translate and publish the record of the archived field branches
Seat
London, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Established
2023
Founded in 2023 to give the federation a seat outside the regions it studies, and to carry the analytical work into questions of international order: how emerging powers behave, and whether legal rules survive contact with resource competition.
Last site update
2026
Research strands
Strands currently carried
Contributors appear as coded identifiers.
- 2023– ongoingActiveLDASS
Water, Climate & Environmental Risk — London and Europe
4 researches in the London and Europe strand, 2023–2025. Representative lines of enquiry: European Defence Industrial Capacity; Defence Industrial Scaling in Europe; European Economic Security as a Policy Network.
- Programme
- Water, Climate & Environmental Risk
- Contributors (coded)
- TB-08 · leadXJ-29LD-18
- 2023– ongoingActiveLDASS
Energy Systems & Grid Security — London and Europe
4 researches in the London and Europe strand, 2023–2026. Representative lines of enquiry: European Energy Security in 2023; European Grid Resilience in the Electrification Era; Synthetic Data for Public-Sector AI.
- Programme
- Energy Systems & Grid Security
- Contributors (coded)
- LD-21 · leadTB-20XJ-19LD-07XJ-16
- 2023– ongoingActiveLDASS
Resources, Minerals & Supply Chains — London and Europe
2 researches in the London and Europe strand, 2023–2024. Representative lines of enquiry: Critical Minerals and European Vulnerability; Red Sea Disruption and European Supply Chains.
- Programme
- Resources, Minerals & Supply Chains
- Contributors (coded)
- LD-06 · leadLD-10XJ-08