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.

Uzbekistan After Karimov

  • By Leena Pillai
The political history of Uzbekistan since its independence on August 31, 1991 is the story of the consolidation of Presidential powers by Islam Abduganievich Karimov. The state handling of the Andijon uprising in May 2005 demonstrated to what extent Karimov was willing to go, to hold on to power. His authoritarian tendencies did not even spare the US. Thus the recent volte-face in Uzbekistan's foreign policy was of no surprise.
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Turkey in Transition

  • By Ilmas Futehally
Surrounded by 13 of the 18 conflict zones in the world, located at the junction of Europe and Asia, centrally placed on the energy route to Europe, the future of Turkey is bound to impact the future of the world. Strategic Foresight Group was invited to Turkey in February 2005 for consultations with the government for our Sustainable Global Security Initiative. We were fortunate to meet a wide range of leaders and scholars, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was one of the first leaders we met.
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Ronald Wright, Short History of Progress

  • By Devika Mistry
Wright's premise starts at the works of Paul Gauguin. A 19th century painter, Gauguin's mural asks three questions that are vital to the understanding of our own environmental dilemmas of today: Where do we come from? Where are we? Where are we going? For Wright, it is the third question, which intrigues him. Where are we going? Wright believes that careful reflection on the first two questions can ultimately answer where our species is headed.
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Business and Periphery

  • By Sundeep Waslekar
Strategic Foresight Group is a product of twenty first century globalisation. We function because of the Internet, inexpensive conference calls across continents, and affordable airfares (though the latter might change with oil prices expected to reach $100 per barrel). We have collaborators around the world who are concerned about shifting global paradigms, and not merely their own geographies...
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