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.

We should not mourn Assad’s fate nor should we call out the marching bands, at least not yet
December 12, 2024

The Trump administration must revisit Taiwan policy to restore U.S. diplomatic credibility with China.
November 22, 2024

The United States must lead negotiations to end the fighting in Ukraine
November 22, 2024

As the limits of U.S. power became more obvious, the Biden administration sought to perpetuate a fading primacy
November 19, 2024

Examining the tension in social sciences between basic and applied research in the shifting funding landscape and research priorities for sponsored programs
November 14, 2024

Trump and his hyperbolic nationalism could be the spark that fuels Europe’s desire to renew itself for the next generation
September 27, 2024

A national-level consortium for evidence-based statecraft could harness innovative social and behavioral science to reduce the threats of conflict and war
September 26, 2024

Skepticism and distrust in emerging technologies are both a cause and an effect of a world in disarray
September 9, 2024