SAMI Fellows David Lye and Jonathan Blanchard Smith attended ESPAS 2021, the annual meeting of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System, on 18-19 November. The second day of the…
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EC SAFIRE Scenarios Sample: Life in Oak
This is the second in a series of blogs based on a report to the European Commission by SAMI and a consortium of partners, IFOK, Cadmus, and Teknologi Radet, to…
Using foresight to develop strategy and policy
This is the first in a series of blogs based on a report to the European Commission by SAMI and a consortium of partners, IFOK, Cadmus, and Teknologi Radet, to…
Beyond the Hoover Institute Report on China-US Relations: What are the headwinds facing China?
A new report published by the Hoover Institute sheds a bright light on the principles that guide the Chinese Communist Party – effectively the Chinese Government – in the strategic…
Covid-19: the Economic Consequences of the infection, and what it tells us about the frailty of the global economy
Many column inches have been filled with the unfolding story of Covid-19 since its emergence in the city of Wuhan last month. There is much speculation about what it means…
Civil Unrest: the “New Normal”
At the end of 2017, I asked in a blog whether 2018 might be the next “Year of Revolutions”. As is usually the case in journalism and blogging, a headline…