No. 52: Strategic Foresight

Anticipation and Capacity to Act

Author(s): Beat Habegger
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 52
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2009

It is becoming difficult to anticipate, analyze, and interpret future trends and developments due to increasing complexity in the international environment. At the same time, states have a growing need to prepare against diffuse risks and threats and to exploit potential future opportunities. The concept of strategic foresight may be useful for preserving and enhancing strategic decision making and the capacity to act in a world that is becoming globalized and unpredictable.

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