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Long-Term Futures

Forecasting and studying the trajectory of key long-term trends and integrating them into policy discussions.

CSIS’s strategic futures works to understand long-term trends and emerging issues in order to build more robust strategies in the twenty-first century. Research on this topic is led by the International Security Program, the Risk and Foresight Group, and Seven Revolutions.

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