The Strategic Foresight Hub at the Stimson Center is helping to inform decision-makers about global trends, analyzes future risks & opportunities, and actively seeks to find convergence and resolution to differences and disputes. It is at the core of a global network of strategic thinkers and sources for critical information, reflection, and innovative methodologies, identifying today's weak signals that become the driving forces of tomorrow’s reality.
Because not one person or institution can expect to know everything about the future or how to discover it, the Hub is strengthened by the diversity of voices and unites the Stimson Center’s wide array of expertise across programs and projects. Together, we work to understand possible futures and provide strategic guidance for the management of uncertainty.
Exploring the accelerating global race for AI dominance
August 12, 2025
Waiting for comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) regulation poses serious risks
July 25, 2025
Sustaining U.S. leadership in an emerging bipolar order will require balancing strategic ambition with restraint—and ensuring that infrastructure serves as a tool of influence, not coercion
July 18, 2025
Balancing constraint, resilience, and potential – looking into the next decade for Russia and its implications on a global order
June 24, 2025
Rethinking AI action from the perspective of the Global South ahead of the next AI Summit in India
June 9, 2025
Donald Trump’s successor, whomever it may be, will find it difficult to restore US global leadership in 2029
June 5, 2025
Ground-level observations that challenge assumptions about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan
May 19, 2025
A pair of scenarios proposes the next four years of diminishing US leadership capacity in an increasingly multipolar world – and the rise of strategic cooperation
May 19, 2025
