About DESGRI

DESGRI responds to a changing security environment in which economic strength, financial resilience, technological capability, industrial capacity, strategic resources and secure supply chains are increasingly inseparable from national and international security.

The Initiative provides an interdisciplinary platform for examining these connections through rigorous academic research and evidence-based policy analysis.

To advance high-quality academic and policy-oriented research on defence economics, economic security and geoeconomics, and to improve understanding of how economic resources, markets and institutions shape security outcomes.

To develop DESGRI into an internationally recognised research platform connecting scholars, policymakers and practitioners working at the intersection of economics and security.

DESGRI promotes interdisciplinary, comparative and evidence-based research. Its work draws on economics, finance, international relations, security studies, political economy and public policy, using quantitative and qualitative methods appropriate to each research question.