Hughes, B. B. (2026). International Futures: Exploring and Shaping. London Academic Press, An Imprint Of Elsevier.

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Pardee Institute founding Director, Barry Hughes, has published the fifth edition of Exploring and Shaping International Futures, an open-access book that makes the foundations of International Futures available as a practical guide for learning, teaching, scenario analysis, and long-term policy thinking.

The book updates earlier editions for the eighth generation of IFs and is organized around three questions: What future would we like? Where do current trends appear to be taking us? And what leverage do people and institutions have to shape what comes next? Across chapters on population, economics, human well-being, food and agriculture, energy, the environment, and domestic and global sociopolitical systems, Hughes connects forecasts, model insights, and points of intervention to help readers examine uncertainty, choices, and possible futures.

Hughes, B.B. (2019) International Futures: Building and Using Global Models. Academic Press (Elsevier Ltd).

In March 2019, International Futures: Building and Using Global Models by Barry B. Hughes was published by Elsevier Academic Press. The volume has two purposes: (1) to explain (by no means fully document) the International Futures (IFs) model system and (2) to place it in the context of the larger environment of global modeling. It thereby is commentary on the state of the enterprise of building and using global models, its strengths and challenges.

Founding Director of the Pardee Center and developer of IFs, Dr.Hughes is John Evans Professor at the Korbel School and now serves as Senior Scientist and Mentor to the Center. His principal interests are in global change, computer simulation models for economic, energy, food, population, environmental, and socio-political forecasting, and policy analysis. The fundamental concerns that synthesize these interests are developing effective response to long-term global change and improving the long-term human condition.

Hughes, B.B. (2019) International Futures: Building and Using Global Models. Academic Press (Elsevier Ltd).

In March 2019, International Futures: Building and Using Global Models by Barry B. Hughes was published by Elsevier Academic Press. The volume has two purposes: (1) to explain (by no means fully document) the International Futures (IFs) model system and (2) to place it in the context of the larger environment of global modeling. It thereby is commentary on the state of the enterprise of building and using global models, its strengths and challenges.

Founding Director of the Pardee Center and developer of IFs, Dr.Hughes is John Evans Professor at the Korbel School and now serves as Senior Scientist and Mentor to the Center. His principal interests are in global change, computer simulation models for economic, energy, food, population, environmental, and socio-political forecasting, and policy analysis. The fundamental concerns that synthesize these interests are developing effective response to long-term global change and improving the long-term human condition.

Hughes, Barry B. 2004. "The Base Case of International Futures (IFs): Comparison with Other Forecasts." Working papers 2004.04.17. Pardee Center for International Futures, Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver, Denver, CO.

Hughes, Barry B. 2004. "Forecasting the Human Development Index." Working paper 2004.02.23. Pardee Center for International Futures, Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver, Denver, CO.

Hughes, Barry B. 2004. “Regimes and Social Transformation.” In Arild Underdal and Oran R. Young, eds., Regime Consequences: Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 335−358.

Hughes, Barry B. 2003.

Hughes, Barry B. 2001. “Global Social Transformation: The Sweet Spot, the Steady Slog, and the Systemic Shift.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 49 (2): 423–458.

Hughes, Barry B. 2001. “Choices in the Face of Uncertainty: The International Futures (IFs) Model.” Futures 33 (1): 55–62.

Hughes, Barry B. 2000. Continuity and Change in World Politics: Competing Perspectives. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.