NDC Outlook 09-2025: What foresight does NATO need?, by Sarah Bressan1
Summary
- Strategic foresight is essential for NATO to anticipate future challenges, navigate uncertainty, and ensure robust and adaptable strategies.
- NATO’s varied strategic foresight experiences provide lessons on how to solve persistent strategy and policymaking challenges.
- For future preparedness, NATO should invest in understanding foresight successes and their link to decision-making, mainstream effective foresight practices, and broaden perspectives on futures in all areas, including its work on “fringe futures” to challenge assumptions and detect weak signals of change.
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- Research Fellow at Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin.
NDC Junior Eisenhower Fellow from October 2024 to January 2025.e. ↩︎
NATO Defense College