GeoStrategy Initiative Analysis and Events

Why a Grand Strategy Is Needed for Obama’s Second Term

By Anne-Marie Slaughter

First terms are about justifying your place in office. Second terms are about justifying your place in history.

Glimpses of a Graying World: The Demographic Challenges of 2030

By Hanna Camp

Last month, the National Intelligence Council (NIC) unveiled its Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds report at a conference convened by the Atlantic Council. Previous reports sought to envision the world in 2025, 2020, 2015, and 2010.

The World Won’t End Today; Neither Will Apocalyptic Hysteria

By Paul Saffo

The world will not end today, the date of the so-called “Mayan Apocalypse.”

Global Trends 2030: The Changing Nature of Warfare

By Jason Harmala

Experts discuss the interaction of developing trends with warfare strategies and planning, taking into consideration the evolving nature of cyberspace and the treats it invites. Dr. Thomas Enders, CEO, EADS NV Michèle Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense Moderated by Steven Grundman, M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges, […]

Global Trends 2030: The Individual vs. The State: Who Will Have the Upper Hand in 2030?

By Jason Harmala

Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Hisham Kassem, Founding Publisher, Al-Masry Al-Youm Newspaper Marne Levine, Vice President of Global Public Policy, Facebook Moderated by Dr. Banning Garrett, Director, Strategic Foresight Initiative, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Social media and its impacts on individual empowerment, security, information […]

Global Trends 2030: The Atlantic Council’s US Strategy in a Post-Western World

By Jason Harmala

Stephen J. Hadley, Principal, RiceHadleyGates LLC General James L. Jones, Jr., Founder and President, Jones Group International; Chairman, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council James B. Steinberg, Dean and Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University  Moderated by Barry Pavel, Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council  The final panel of […]

Global Trends 2030: Will the US Be Able to Lead in a Post-Western World

Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Dr. Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution  Dr. Moises Naim, Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El País  Moderated by Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times  This panel addressed the 2012 Global Trends conference’s core question by featuring diverse opinions on how the West must adapt to challenges of the […]

Global Trends 2030: Urban World 2030

By Jason Harmala

William Cobbett, Manager, Cities Alliance, The World Bank Dr. Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, US Department of State  H.E. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Singapore  Moderated by Diana Farrell, Director, McKinsey Center for Government, McKinsey & Co.