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Combined with full access to Foreign Policy’s leading journalism, FP Insider provides exclusive access to research from FP Analytics that provides insightful, data-driven, and actionable intelligence on transformational trends impacting geopolitics and business. FP Analytics research, produced exclusively for Insiders, distills major topics such as 5G, data governance, and resource competition; identifies geopolitical and competitive forces shaping markets; and highlights risks and opportunities for businesses and organizations operating around the world.

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In-House Intelligence

Only FP Insiders get access to the data-driven intelligence produced by FP Analytics, Foreign Policy’s independent research and analysis division, including:

Power Maps

An innovative new form of geopolitical analysis. It's vital to have access to credible information on emerging global trends. Power Maps go a step further by synthesizing and distilling data and analysis into key takeaways and insights, so that you and your team can process and strategize more quickly.

The Future of Money, a three-part series, examines the forces shaping the global financial landscape and driving the adoption of new financial instruments by major institutions such as central banks, investment banks, tech companies, and individual investors. Part I analyzes the status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, details the emerging challenges to the dollar, and walks through China, Russia, and the European Union’s efforts to transform the existing financial system. Part II examines the promise and potential perils of cryptocurrency as a vehicle for financial change, and includes a database of cryptocurrency regulations around the world. And Part III examines stablecoins, the prospects for institutional adoption, and the rapidly evolving efforts to regulate this space.

The Biden Power Map is an interactive, analytical breakdown of the key players in the Biden administration across seven core U.S. foreign policy priorities. These pressing issues—which include climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic response, cyber and technology, economic competitiveness, “Forever Wars” and the Middle East, immigration and asylum, and nuclear proliferation—formed the foundation of President Biden’s campaign platform and have been the focus of major initiatives launched by the administration within its first 100 days.

Arctic Competition Power Map provides an in-depth breakdown of how melting sea ice is enabling increased commercial activity and geopolitical competition over resources, shipping routes, and territory in the Arctic. Part I focuses on resource competition, and Part II analyzes military build-up and great power competition in the region.

Global Data Governance, the most comprehensive assessment and mapping of data localization and privacy laws to date. Part I focuses on emerging data governance trends and legal frameworks across countries, including the cataloging of data localization laws and privacy legislation around the world. Part II explores the security and privacy implications of evolving government data collection efforts—plus, how artificial intelligence is making data surveillance more efficient and ubiquitous. Insiders also have access to a database of data governance policies for 138 countries around the world.

5G Explained investigates three major areas vital to understanding how 5G roll-out is impacting markets and security including: Part I on technology and infrastructure; Part II on the competitive landscape; and Part III on national security.

Special Reports

Original research that delves deep into the critical issues influencing foreign policy and investment trends around the world. Recent special reports include:

Firm Zero-Emission Power examines how carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), advanced nuclear, and unconventional geothermal can be part of the solution. Maintaining significant generating resources with operating characteristics similar to today’s power plants—often referred to as “firm” or “dispatchable” resources, because they can be ramped up and down at any time—would dramatically reduce the likely costs of deep decarbonization of the grid while also reducing technology risk by harnessing a more diversified portfolio of solutions.

Toward Deep Decarbonization assesses the state of the technology, investment trends, and strategic collaborations that are driving decarbonization in some of the hardest-to-abate sectors. Some 70 percent of today’s CO2 emissions belong to countries with net-zero commitments, but tangible policy action to those ends continues to fall short. Batteries and hydrogen have emerged as two promising technologies for enabling this next level of economy-wide deep decarbonization.

Semiconductors and the U.S.-China Innovation Race maps out the interconnectivity and fragility of global supply chains and the central role of Taiwan in global tech competition. The lifeblood of high-tech industries, semiconductors are at the heart of intensifying U.S.-China strategic and economic competition. Escalating trade tensions between these two superpowers and a range of protective measures have had cascading impacts that are threatening global supply chains, firms’ competitiveness, and end-users access to these vital materials.

The COVID-19 Global Response Index, a first-of-its-kind assessment of governments’ responses to the coronavirus crisis in key policy areas, tracks government actions on COVID-19 across 36 countries. It also highlights countries' relative investments in emergency health care spending and other response measures, and local contextual factors influencing governments' response.

Climate and Security examines a range of security threats facing the Middle East and North Africa region, followed by distinct calls to action for international organizations, national governments, the private sector, and crisis response NGOs.

The Her Power Index combines analysis of government employment data with insights from former and current foreign-policy staffers to illuminate the under-representation of women across U.S. foreign policy agencies over the last decade. The report highlights key recommendations to advance gender equality across these agencies.

Mining the Future represents the first systematic assessment of China's accumulation of control and influence over a range of critical mineral supply chains that are vital to high tech and defense industries around the world.

Graphics Database

In-depth data-driven analysis and comprehensive assessments and mapping of the economic, technological, and geopolitical trends shaping our world.

The Graphics Database, developed exclusively for FP Insiders, is a powerful tool for businesses, government officials, and others seeking to understand and strategically navigate the evolving geopolitical landscape. Insider subscribers can download select charts and datasets for use in their own presentations, publications and digital assets.

Insider Briefings

A direct line to FP Analytics.

A series of intimate, Insider-only briefings will coincide with the launch of new products produced by FP Analytics. The calls will provide a unique opportunity for FP Insiders to hear directly from the Analytics team, as they engage with contributing experts and global policy leaders on research methodologies, key findings, and implications for stakeholders.

Meet FP Analytics

Allison Carlson
Managing Director

Prior Professional Experience: Senior Vice President at Garten Rothkopf LLC (now FP Analytics); Regional Director for Latin America at Guizzetti & Associates; Trade and Economic Analysis for the Organization for American States, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

Focus Areas: International economics, trade, energy, and climate policy, and gender issues.

Specialization: Political and economic risk analysis, crisis simulation and scenario planning, impact analysis and strategic advisory.

Mayesha Alam, Ph.D.
Vice President of Research

Prior Professional Experience: Deputy Director of Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security; Senior Fellow at United Nations University Centre for Policy.

Focus Areas: Conflict and peace, climate security, gender equality, multilateral governance, global health, international law.

Specialization: Mixed methods research, policy advising and analysis, executive briefings, strategy development.

Christian Perez
Senior Quantitative and Policy Analyst

Professional Experience: Global Strategy and Corporate Governance at Cartica Management LLC. Prior: Four years in tech and finance roles.

Focus Areas: Trade and investment, emerging technologies, sustainability, and policy impact analysis.

Specialization: Quantitative analysis and technology trends for Power Maps: Future of Money, 5G Explained, Global Data Governance, and Arctic Competition.

Isabel Schmidt
Senior Policy Analyst

Professional Experience: Completed Masters in International Relations and International Economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Focus Areas: Women in the workplace, The Her Power Index, and security and stability in fragile states (see Climate and Security Special Report).

Specialization: Combining primary-source interviews with data to deliver insights for clients; development of FP Simulations.

Gahyun Helen You
Policy Analyst

Professional Experience: Policy Advisor and former Director to the NYU Cybersecurity Awareness Worldwide Policy Competition; Consultant for U.N. Women.

Focus Areas: International security, specifically cybersecurity and international cyber governance, as well as gender issues.

Specialization: Policy and security analysis for Special Reports: Future of Money, Semiconductors and the U.S.-China Innovation Race, and Cybersecurity and U.S. Election Infrastructure.

Policy-Shaping Research

Following the release of Mining the Future, a special investigation into China’s control of the raw materials essential to the digital economy, FP Analytics Managing Director Allison Carlson testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The report, available first and only to FP Insider subscribers, helped move forward a critical foreign-policy conversation and related legislation.

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