As part of its mission to find a common security culture for the eu, to help develop and project the cfsp, and to enrich europes strategic debate, the institute regularly releases publications on the topics and regions at the core of the unions work. We look forward to your insightful thoughts and discussions on themes around the upcoming global trends 2030 report to be published later this year. Global trends and risks that will shape the world over the next 20 years 4 1. This report is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories during.
Alternative worlds is the fifth installment in the national intelligence. There are many reasons that people find themselves prepping these days. Unique among intelligence products of this depth and stature, the national intelligence councils quadrennial global trends report is. Global drivers to 2030 port trends to 2030 contents.
On monday december 10, 2012 the office of the director of national intelligence released the national intelligence councils nic latest global trends report, global trends 2030. It may look like a report, but it is really an invitation, an invitation to discuss. National intelligence council the national intelligence council nic is best known as the organization that produces national intelligence estimates, which are intelligence communitywide forecasts of issues and challenges facing the security of the united states. Burrows, counselor, us national intelligence council. A game without a referee the relative decline of the west, the process of globalisation, and the emergence of new powers is creating a world with several interconnected poles. Of all possible future worlds is a book that asks, what will our world be like in the next fifteen to twenty years. This week, the national intelligence council released its quadrennial report about global trends, and its a sober read. Also, can anyone print this in other languages translated. Policy planners in the us foresaw a series of individual, society, state, and globallevel megatrends. The national intelligence council commissioned a report for upcoming global trends out to the year 2030. This year, principal author mathew burrows and his colleagues focus on a series of plausible. The following report was released december 10, 2012 by the national intelligence council. This report is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories over the next 15 years.
We live in a world of incredible possibilities, thanks to industrial and technological progress, but that same progress is disrupting the statecentric global. Climate change is the most important issue that the gt. Jan 09, 2017 global trends is the intelligence communitys major assessment of the forces and choices shaping the world over the next two decades. The national intelligence council nic, the forwardlooking think tank of the u. What fate for liberal order in a postwestern world. Global governance 2025 provides an important step with a view to future joint projects on matters of common interest. Scenarios for asias strategic future the national intelligence councils nic justreleased global. This report is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories during the next 1520 years. The ideas generated and insights gained during the preparation of the accompanying report have enriched the work of countless analysts and been incorporated into numerous analytic products published by the national intelligence council and. The russians were also among the first to produce a report marked for official use on their longterm vision, russia in the brics. Anyone who has ever seen the tv reality series doomsday preppers knows that the reasoning behind peoples motives can be somewhat extreme, with fear of asteroids or massive volcanic eruptions.
Global trends represents how the nic is thinking about the future. Although reading trends 2030 is helpful, risks 2035 can be read alone. Deloitte ports industry global trends in the ports industry 1. Summaries of the us, eu, russia, and nato global trends 2030 reports. Statelessness, the 2010 global trends report demonstrates the continued relevance of forced displacement and statelessness issues to the international agenda. The raw material from which the global trends 2030 report was derived came from commissioned papers, workshops, interviews, and feedbackall largely qualitative. In addition, a number of quantitative models were used to put numbers behind the ideas that came from the consultants. Global trends 2030 office of the director of national intelligence. Instead, we focus on those global trends that matter most to europe. This report aims to update and extend that report by including developments that have occurred in european and global geopolitics since then, and will project developments out to 2035. Global strategic trends gst describes a strategic context for those in the ministry of defence mod and wider government who are involved in. A condensed version of the report is also available 1. As with the nics national intelligence council previous global trends reports, we.
The nic reports to the director of national intelligence in his capacity as head of the intelligence community. For a direct link to a downloadable copy of global trends 2030, in various forms pdf, kindle, etc. On monday december 10, 2012 the office of the director of national intelligence. Oct 02, 2018 global strategic trends gst describes a strategic context for those in the ministry of defence mod and wider government who are involved in developing long term plans, strategies, policies and.
This analysis is embedded within the framework of the european strategy and policy analysis system espas set up to develop a lasting framework to assess global trends and to develop policy. Global trends 2030 is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast. Overview of the national intelligence council report on. This means that this is not a report on global trends generally, and it is not a report on european trends. In 2015, the european strategy and policy analysis system espas launched its report global trends to 2030. We are at a critical juncture in human history, which could lead to widely contrasting futures, writes the chairman of the national intelligence council nic christopher kojm in the councils latest forwardlooking quadrennial report, global trends 2030. The nic global trends project involves extensive research and consultations with people inside the us government and around the world. Global trends 2030 is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories over the next 15 years. The department of economic and social affairs of the united nations secretariat is a vital interface between global policies in the economic, social and environmental spheres and national action. Alternative worlds, a publication of the national intelligence council nic. The last report, which was released in 2012, was global trends 2030. The global trends project engages expertise from outside government on factors of such as globalization, demography and the environment. This detailed work has dozens of indepth blog posts, by experts in their fields. Unique among intelligence products of this depth and stature, the national intelligence councils quadrennial global trends report is completely unclassified.
Global trends is the intelligence communitys major assessment of the forces and choices shaping the world over the next two decades. Jan 03, 20 the national intelligence council commissioned a report for upcoming global trends out to the year 2030. Publications european union institute for security studies. The national intelligence councils global trends 2030 report predicts that by the year 2030, a majority of the worlds population will be out. We know that global trends 2030 report to be published later this year, do you publish a summary before the whole report. National intelligence council puts forth its latest quadrennial assessment of the dynamics driving events around the world. It is a bridge between the policy and intelligence communities with officers from academia, the private sector, the government and everywhere in between. The following report was released december 10, 2012 by the national intelligence council a condensed version of the report is also available 1. Us national intelligence council global trends 2030. The nic s most recent global trends report, global trends. This research report forms part of our series on global societal trends and their impact on the eu in 2030. Nic 2004 report of the national intelligence councils 2020 project based on consultations with nongovernmental experts around the world december 2004. How to read the national intelligence councils latest. She managed to make the content relevant to the executives international audience through examples that resonated with the group.
Since the first global trends was released in 1997, the audience for each report has expanded, generating more interest and reaching a broader audience that the one that preceded it. Intelligence report predicts it in 2030, a world of cyborgs with asia as top power the national intelligence council, made up of 17 u. The national intelligence councils global trends 2030 report predicts that. In creating the report, the nic engages expertise from outside government on factors of such as globalization, demography and the environment, producing a forwardlooking document to aid. The national intelligence councils global trends 2030 report predicts that by the year 2030. The report, otherwise comprehensive and well written, misses or underemphasizes some critical aspects. A new global trends report is published every four years following the u. Tracey delivered a concise and wellstructured presentation on key global trends and how to think about turning them into opportunities. As with the nics previous global trends reports, we do not seek to. Alternative worlds open pdf 0 b this report is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories during the next 1520 years. Governance is getting harder, and the nature of power is changing. The nic as well as other organizations in the european union eu, russia, and north atlantic treaty organization nato have conducted such reports about global trends and the future world of 2030. Global trends 2030 reports us, eu, russia, and nato.
The 2030 pdf is broken, can you up again the archive thanks. The nic global trends 2030 report another good reason to prep. How to read the national intelligence councils latest global. It depicts some of the major humanitarian trends which occurred during 2010 in relation to displacement, either within or beyond international borders. As with previous editions, we hope that this report will stimulate strategic thinking by. This is the first time the nic has jointly developed and produced an unclassified report with a nonus body. The national intelligence councils global trends 2030 report predicts that by the year 2030, a majority of the worlds population will be out of poverty. The global governance 2025 project is innovative in many respects. Workshop on information technology in africa, may 2002 3 mb pdf file. Us strategy for a postwestern world is a report released today by the atlantic councils strategic foresight initiative that urges the obama administration to seize a historic opportunity to ensure americas global interests over the long term.
This years edition of the conference is dedicated to society and governance and brings together leading global experts and practitioners to explore innovations in the world of work and welfare, public services and governance. A few weeks back, on one of my many flights, i had an opportunity to read global trends 2030. Alternative worlds is the fifth installment in the national intelligence councils series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future. Although global trends 2030 gt2030 involved a global process of consultation, the report retains a u. Although the 2016 version hasnt been made public yet, the principle author of global trends 2030 wrote a very detailed update to his previous work called global risks 2035. As with the nic s previous global trends reports, we do not seek to predict the futurewhich would. Alternative worlds of the us national intelligence council nic comes to a similar conclusion that we are living through a transformative period that is equal to if not greater than the aftermath of the political and economic revolutions of the late 18th century. National intelligence council releases global trends 2030. In this volume, they expanded their coverage of disruptive technologies, devoting a separate section to it in the. Dec 10, 2012 on monday december 10, 2012 the office of the director of national intelligence released the national intelligence councils nic latest global trends report, global trends 2030.