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Global Strategic Trends Programme

This series brings together all documents relating to the Global Strategic Trends Programme.

• From: Ministry of Defence
• Published: 17 October 2013
• Last updated: 20 March 2026
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  1. 20 March 2026

     Future Operating Environment collection added

  2. 18 September 2025

     FOE 35 removed.

  3. 27 September 2024

     Updated with Global Strategic Trends: Out to 2055

  4. 22 February 2017

     Added Call for papers on 'energy', 'food and food security', 'resources and materials', 'waste', and 'water and water security'.

  5. 16 December 2016

     Added: Calls for papers on the future of marco-economics, finance and the markets

  6. 28 November 2016

     Regional survey: Africa out to 2045

  7. 22 December 2015

     Added new page for Future security challenges in the Baltic Sea region.

  8. 16 December 2015

     Added Future Operating Environment 2035.

  9. 30 June 2014

     Added Global Strategic Trends out to 2045

  10. 17 October 2013

      First published.

Future Operating Environment

• Future Operating Environments 2040
  • 18 March 2026
  • Guidance

Global Strategic Trends

• Global Strategic Trends: Out to 2055
  • 18 March 2026
  • Guidance
• Nordic Synthesis: Implications from Global Strategic Trends 7
  • 18 March 2026
  • Guidance

Strategic implications projects

• Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm
  • 13 May 2021
  • Guidance

Regional surveys and studies

• Regional Survey – South Asia out to 2040
  • 15 January 2013
  • Guidance
• Regional Survey – Africa out to 2045
  • 16 December 2016
  • Guidance
• Future Security Challenges in the Baltic Sea Region
  • 25 January 2016
  • Guidance