Archives

Our archives are a repository of original thinking that chronicles two decades of research, analysis, and policy innovation. This collection brings together articles written by SFG’s founders and research analysts between 2005 and 2025, preserving the ideas, and insights that shaped our intellectual journey. These writings reflect the evolution of our thinking as we engaged with some of the world’s most pressing challenges and opportunities.

The archive offers a rich body of material for researchers, policymakers, students, journalists, and anyone interested in understanding complex global issues through a long-term strategic lens. The articles explore a wide spectrum of subjects, including peace and conflict, water diplomacy, international relations, technology, environmental sustainability, governance, security, and the changing dynamics of regional and global cooperation. They also place regional developments within broader international and geopolitical contexts.

Many of these articles anticipated trends and policy challenges that later became central to international discourse. Others document the development of concepts and frameworks that informed SFG’s subsequent research, dialogues, and publications. Together, they provide not only historical context but also enduring perspectives that continue to resonate in a rapidly changing world.

Beyond serving as a research resource, this archive offers a window into the intellectual history of SFG. It traces how our ideas evolved over time, how new policy concepts emerged through sustained inquiry, and how our engagement expanded from regional concerns to global challenges. Readers can follow the progression of our work across changing geopolitical landscapes and appreciate our evidence-based approaches to peace, security, and international cooperation.

Whether you are revisiting landmark analyses, exploring the origins of key policy ideas, or discovering our work for the first time, we hope these archives provide valuable insights, stimulate informed debate, and inspire fresh thinking about the future.

The Future of Renewables and the Role of Feed-in-Tariffs

Ipshita explores the future of renewable energy and the role of feed-in-tariffs.

One Minute to Midnight

Why are some of the leading minds of the world preparing for the extinction of civilisation on the planet? Should collection of seeds of all plants, efforts to colonise space, and other similar initiatives be the main thrust of our response to the catastrophic risks that face us? Or should we look at the structural problems that give rise to such risk and explore solutions that can help the world begin a journey in a new direction?

Redefining Environmental Security

Is environmental security being redefined from the traditional focus on fossil fuels, to a wider area which includes natural resources and food security?

Peace Building Ladder for the Middle East

The Kerry Initiative in the Middle East has failed. Where is it placed in the SFG Peace Ladder

Evolution of the Role of the Pakistani Army

The evolution of the role of the Pakistani Army in the country's politics looks to be following the path outlined in Strategic Foresight Group's 2002 paper

Big Data and Social Change

There is more data created every two days than it has ever been in the whole of human history until 2003.