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Title

Making policy in the shadow of the future / Gregory F. Treverton.

Author

Treverton, Gregory F.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• National Intelligence Council (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation.

Description

xv, 37 p. ; 28 cm.

Summary

The National Intelligence Council's (NIC's) 2008 report Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World projects what the world will look like in 2025 based on recent trends. However, as an intelligence organization, the NIC limits its report to describing the impacts of future trends on the United States? it cannot explore the important question: How should U.S. policy adapt now to account for these trends and the future that will result from them? This paper takes on that task. It focuses on important issues for which a long-term perspective leads to different immediate choices for U.S. policy than would result from only a short-term perspective. These include energy and climate change; defense policy, including the diffusion of nuclear weapons and the movement to abolish them; the reshaping of international law and institutions; the structure of the federal government; and the U.S. relationship with Mexico. For some other issues, long- and short-term thinking produce similar conclusions; yet for still others, the two perspectives seem difficult to reconcile.

Subject

• Political planning > United States
• National security > United States
• United States > Foreign relations

Note

• Based on a report submitted by the National Intelligence Council.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Shaping U.S. policy for 2025 -- Where might longer-term thinking change short-run policy?

ISBN

9780833049803 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010015065

OCLC

609871271

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library