Economy & Trade
Did Brexit make Britain grow faster?
The dashboard asks whether Brexit improved Britain’s economic performance and trading position, or simply made every deal harder while reducing flexibility.
Flagship case study
Brexit at 10
A ten-year audit of Britain’s post-Brexit position, asking a simple strategic question: did Brexit improve Britain’s room for manoeuvre, or make growth, trade, governance and strategic flexibility harder?
The question
The League of Nations dashboard frames Brexit not as a single referendum event, but as a continuing strategic test across multiple domains of national capability.
State & Leadership
Did institutions strengthen?
The case study tracks whether Britain remained easy to govern, institutionally resilient and strategically coherent after leaving the European Union.
People, Culture & Strategy
Did national confidence improve?
Beyond economics, the framework asks whether Britons became happier, more adaptive and better placed to navigate globalisation and identity politics.
Why this is Smart Power
A national strategy test, not just a policy argument
Brexit at 10 shows how the Institute applies Smart Power in practice. The issue is not merely whether a government won an argument, but whether a country improved its strategic position across economic, institutional, social and diplomatic dimensions at once.
That makes Brexit a useful first case study: it is familiar, contested and measurable, which allows the Institute to demonstrate a serious method rather than only a set of views.
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