Strategic Conflict & Escalation

Strategic Conflict & Escalation Monitor — W/E 30 March 2026

Sudan drives the week's highest escalation signal — RSF capture of Kurmuk displaced 73,000 people in a single event, with indicators for rhetoric, economic warfare, diplomacy, and displacement all above initial baseline simultaneously.

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AI Governance Monitor — Week of 30 March 2026

China's state formalisation of AI tokens as an economic settlement unit and OpenAI's compute reallocation from video synthesis to robotics pre-training are this week's two structural signals — geopolitical AI architecture is now being built in terminology committees as much as in data centers.

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Global FIMI & Cognitive Warfare Monitor — W/E 30 March 2026

Russia's Social Design Agency confirmed operating from the Budapest Embassy ahead of Hungary's April 12 election; Meta's largest-ever Russia-attributed CIB takedown; Turning Point Action's Alliance of Sovereign Nations operational across European far-right.

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Macro Monitor — TL;DR Week of 30 March 2026

System stress at ELEVATED -> HIGH with zero bullish asset class scores: consumer confidence at a GFC-trough, a Hormuz supply disruption embedding a $15-20 oil premium, and private credit gate risk the most underpriced systemic trigger in the model.

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World Democracy Monitor — 30 March 2026

Tisza leads Fidesz by 23 points with 13 days to Hungary's April 12 election; Georgia's new March 2026 law package completes its civil society capture architecture; and the Philippines enters the heatmap as a new Rapid Decay entry after CIVICUS adds it to its Watchlist at Repressed rating.

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European Geopolitical & Hybrid Threat Monitor -- W/E 29 March 2026

Hungary election crisis deepens with BBC voter intimidation expose and confirmed Russian political technologists in Budapest; NATO reports 20% European defence spending increase; Slovenia election produces razor-thin result amid Israeli Black Cube interference.

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