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The Harmony of Opposite Tensions


The Atlas Institute for International Affairs is the world’s first decentralised international affairs open-access think tank and publisher, committed to the exploration and explanation of global events. The organisation provides a dialogue platform where young individuals and senior experts alike can exchange viewpoints and information regarding both the theory and practice of international affairs.

Atlas Institute publishes content and promotes events focusing on international relations, defence & security, regional studies, transnational phenomena, global governance and international trade & development. Specific regional concentrations include Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East & North Africa, North America, Russia & Eurasia, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa. The meeting point between those who share knowledge and those who seek it results in the delivery of innovative journalism, the development of strategic insight and the elaboration of sustainable policy solutions. This learning process is fundamental to charting a course towards a better world and is the quintessence of all our work.

Our global network encompasses academics, policy experts, decision-makers, students and other bipartisan organisations, all of whom collaborate to produce original and impartial open access resources and content. Atlas Institute’s editorial stance, just like its network, is all-inclusive and ranges from news articles to research papers, passing through student essays to policy briefs. Each year, our organisation endorses, promotes and sponsors a multitude of worldwide conferences, roundtables and speaker events focusing on international affairs.

Our political risk consulting division, Titan, is dedicated to the pro bono distribution of regional, national and global financial and economic reports, the monitoring of political events and election exit polls and the analysis of the impact of legislative and regulatory fluctuations on investment outlooks. Phoebe, our forecasting and probabilistic intelligence platform, is designed to harness and aggregate expert analytical judgment using Bayesian probability theory. Ratings offer crowd-sourced sovereign credit ratings that are transparent, deliberative assessments of a country’s creditworthiness generated through structured public voting on economic, fiscal, political, and financial risk parameters. The Titan Global Risk Index (TGRI) provides a powerful and easily interpretable quantitative assessment of the risk of humanitarian crises and disasters in 191 countries. Our mission is to transform risk, uncertainty and challenges into certainty, security and opportunity.

Atlas Institute for International Affairs is committed to maintaining institutional independence and hence is not aligned with any public or private organisation, nor does it receive any financial support from the latter. Our organisation is staffed by a dedicated and experienced team of international affairs academics, practitioners and students.

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