Selected Foresight Resources

Jonathan Boston, Governing for the Future: Designing Democratic Institutions for a Better Tomorrow (Bingley, U.K.: Emerald, 2017).

Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy, Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes (New York: Ecco, 2017).

Leon Fuerth with Evan M. H. Faber, Anticipatory Governance: Practical Upgrades: Equipping the Executive Branch to Cope With Increasing Speed and Complexity of Major Challenges (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, October 2012), https://www.dropbox.com/s/z7jjk626ddf51oo/Anticipatory_Governance_Practical_Upgrades.pdf?dl=0.

Joseph M. Greenblott, Thomas O’Farrell, Robert Olson, and Beth Burchard, “Strategic Foresight in the Federal Government: A Survey of Methods, Resources, and Institutional Arrangements,” World Futures Review 11, no. 3 (2019): 245–66. (See also: Foresight in the Federal Government: Supplemental Information, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6750717/bin/NIHMS1523455-supplement-sup_1.pdf.)

John M. Kamensky et al., Bringing Strategic Foresight to Bear in Policy Planning and Management, (Washington, DC: National Academy of Public Administration, 2016), https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/napa-2021/T16-StratForesightRecsFINAL-as-posted-on-web.pdf.

National Intelligence Council, Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World (National Intelligence Council, March 2021), https://www.dropbox.com/s/z7jjk626ddf51oo/Anticipatory_Governance_Practical_Upgrades.pdf?dl=0.

J. Peter Scoblic, “Learning from the Future: How to Make Robust Strategy in Times of Deep Uncertainty,” Harvard Business Review, 98, no. 4 (2020): 38-47, https://hbr.org/2020/07/learning-from-the-future.

School of International Futures, Features of Effective Systemic Foresight in the Governments Around the World (London: SOIF, April 2021), https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/985279/effective-systemic-foresight-governments-report.pdf.

Amy Webb, A National Office for Strategic Foresight Anchored in Critical Science and Technologies (Stanford, CA: Freeman Spogli Institute for Institutional Studies, October 17, 2019), https://fsi.stanford.edu/publication/national-office-strategic-foresight-anchored-critical-science-and-technologies-0.