International Futures: Exploring and Shaping

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

eBook ISBN: 978-3-032-22084-4

ISBN: 978-3-032-22083-7

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.