Strategic Foresight: Anticipation and Capacity to Act

Abstract

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.