The Briefs Archive
Every working paper, parliamentary submission, and peer-reviewed article the Institute has published since 2011 — filterable by region, by topic, and by the parliamentary chambers in which they have been cited.
Browse the archive ↓
Filter the Archive
The Institute organises its scholarship around five substantive verticals — not marketing categories. Each brief carries a region tag, a topic tag, and the parliamentary chambers in which it has been entered into the record.
38 briefs
Tariff architecture, non-tariff barriers, investor-state dispute settlement, and the renegotiation of multilateral frameworks.
31 briefs
Strategic sectors, reshoring incentives, public procurement, and the Sovereignty First framework's ten-point industrial plan.
24 briefs
Wage compression, sectoral labour shortages, points-based systems, and the fiscal footprint of workforce policy.
29 briefs
Critical-mineral dependencies, near-shoring, pharmaceutical and semiconductor sovereignty, and logistics chokepoints.
20 briefs
Supranational regulatory power, parliamentary prerogative, constitutional limits on treaty cession, and subsidiarity.
Recent & Featured
Long-form briefs released between August and November 2024, together with three archive titles that continue to drive parliamentary reference.
Drawing on the Institute's Offshoring Impact Database, this brief documents a measurable wage premium in 184 U.S. counties that absorbed reshored manufacturing capacity between 2018 and 2023, and tests four causal hypotheses against county-pair fixed effects.
Read the brief →"
For empirical seriousness on the globalisation question, the Combating Globalization Institute's working-paper series is the benchmark the rest of the field is now measured against. Its Offshoring Impact Database is, in our reviewers' considered judgement, the most rigorous open resource of its kind.
The Dispatch
The Dispatch is the Institute's weekly research letter to 14,200 subscribers across 47 countries — a 38% average open rate, written for the desks that move policy. Subscribers receive new briefs in advance of public release, the raw datasets behind them, and the citation trail that links each paper to the parliamentary record.
Funded 100% by individual members and three vetted foundations. Zero corporate donors.
