LDASS · London
LDASS Strategic Assessment
English
The federation's annual review of international order, emerging powers and the resource and technology positions that underwrite them. Published each autumn from London.
Publications
Journals, editions and reports
Member academies publish in Uyghur, Chinese, Kazakh, Tibetan and English. The federation adds a shared annual review and a working paper series.
Serials
Journals & imprints
LDASS · London
Rule of Law Papers
English
A legal-analytical series on the governance of extraction and technology: concessions, arbitration, sanctions practice and the protection of field researchers.
XJASS · Ürümqi
Interior Resource Review
Chinese · Uyghur · English
Analysis of minerals, corridors and water across the Eurasian interior. Suspended in July 2026; the full run remains available in the archive.
TBASS · Lhasa
Plateau Systems Quarterly
Tibetan · Chinese · English
Headwater, energy and high-altitude infrastructure conditions on the plateau. Suspended in July 2026; back issues are preserved by the foundation.
Federation output
Reports & working papers
Published by the secretariat on behalf of the member academies.
Research report
The Interior Ledger: Critical Minerals of Central Eurasia
2024
A deposit-by-deposit account of extraction and processing capacity across the interior, with an assessment of where value is captured and by whom.
Research report
Water Tower Under Load
2025
Glacial retreat, storage decisions and hydropower expansion on the plateau, modelled against downstream supply across four river systems.
Strategic assessment
Emerging Powers and the Supply Question
2025
How middle powers use resource and processing position as strategic leverage, and the coalitions that have formed around contested supply chains.
Rule of Law paper
Rules Under Pressure: Arbitration, Sanctions and Extraction
2026
Whether legal rules governing extraction survive contact with strategic competition, drawing on a decade of concession and arbitration practice.
Policy report
Continuity of the Record
2026
The foundation's response to the July 2026 suspension: how completed work is preserved, how identifying material is retired, and how coded attribution is maintained indefinitely.