This report sets out the conclusions of the Heywood Fellowship’s inquiry: how policymaking at the intersection of economic and security interests needs to change to keep ahead geopolitical and wider global trends.

The intersection of economic prosperity and national security poses increasing challenges, demanding a multidisciplinary approach from policymakers. Despite prior Civil Service efforts, frequent reform programs have failed to equip policymakers with lasting expertise to address evolving complexities. This report explores historical shortcomings and suggests a strategy for sustained improvement. 

The UK grapples with complex policy issues at the intersection of economics and national security. This paper, part of a series, explores historical challenges and emphasises the need for government reform to enhance analytical capabilities, calling for senior officials' support to effectively address modern policy challenges.

This paper examines how modern economic statecraft was developed in the early 20th Century and how a better understanding of that history might improve policy making today.

This policy memo outlines proposals for an African green trade and investment strategy. It draws on extensive mapping of the institutional, policy and diplomatic landscape, and also considers emerging and long-term trends.

As the world becomes better connected, marked by the increased access to and use of the internet, the need for competencies to navigate it digitally have never been more urgent.

The project examining the levelling-up of Britain’s regions seeks to help address the problem of profound spatial inequality in the UK by drawing lessons from international success stories of cities that bounced back from decline.

This paper examines the forces that have decoupled economic prosperity from social prosperity, and explores how recoupling can be promoted. Globalisation, technological advance and 'financialisation' have weakened the connections between economies and societies over the past four decades, according to the paper. The authors want to jettison the premise that social progress follows financial performance from economic decision-making.

This article is a progress report on the theory and practice of managing multilevel cultural evolution, based on a grant awarded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council’s “Rebuilding Macroeconomics” programme.

Regions and nations of Britain have become still more economically divided in recent decades. This paper assesses the extent to which social and political attitudes in different regions and nations of Britain have indeed become more polarised, in line with regional economic divergence.

To achieve global climate goals and build a more resilient economy, the rules and institutions of global economic governance must align around a green transition.