Understanding Strategic Advantage

Free societies are under attack by hostile states that seek to erode democracy’s natural advantages. The post-WWII, rules-based international system is being challenged by authoritarians seeking to pitch the game in their favour. They do so with a variety of tools, including leverage in globalised supply chains, to exert political influence far beyond their own borders.

The Centre for Strategic Advantage (CSA) is a UK-based nonprofit that produces research to help decision-makers in free societies to identify opportunities, calculate risks, reduce vulnerabilities and mitigate emerging threats.

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About us

Our Approach

Our analysis furthers free societies’ understanding of complex global relationships and interconnected supply chains and, importantly, identifies clear routes to impact. To achieve this, we have built our model around three main pillars.

From Insight to Impact

Protect

Highlighting vulnerabilities in our supply chains, spotting emerging threats and engaging across government, industry and civil society to develop mitigations that build institutional resilience.

Compete

Developing opportunities to build leverage, globally, that can be employed to strategic effect.

Disrupt

Identifying weaknesses in adversarial systems that can be exploited to reduce their harm to our societies.

Our Research

Explore our latest research and insights across a range of topics shaping today’s strategic landscape. Our research brings together analysis, expert perspectives, and evidence-based recommendations to support informed decision-making.

Our first published research, on Russia’s influence over uranium supplies, is summarised and available on Mining for Influence.

Our Team

We employ a brilliant team of diverse thinkers: open-source researchers, corporate intelligence analysts, linguists, data scientists, data engineers, economists, financial analysts, supply chain analysts and communicators, all of whom work closely with international partners, government and the private sector, to maximise the effectiveness of our work. If you care deeply about democratic resilience, are fascinated by geopolitics, and want to put your first-rate (yet unconventional) mind to solving important problems, consider getting in touch.