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From new research to public conversations, data tools, partnerships, and analysis, these activities help people examine how global systems, development pathways, and geopolitical relationships are changing.

Here, you can follow work that measures and analyzes national power, diplomacy, conflict, development, climate, governance, technology, and human well-being. Some of this work uses International Futures (IFs) to compare plausible futures under different assumptions. Other work builds the datasets and evidence needed to understand geopolitical relationships and structural change over time.

Use this page to see where Pardee’s research is being applied, what questions our team is asking, and how our tools, data and analysis are informing scholarship, policy, and public understanding.

November 4, 2026

“What if you win?” Keith Gehring reflects on teaching in Serbia

At the DU Faculty Fulbright Series event “Teaching in Serbia”, Keith Gehring described five months spent teaching policy strategy in Belgrade while his students were actively contesting their country’s direction. As […]

October 29, 2026

How far does the impact of a war in the Middle East extend?

When shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slows, the effects don't stay in the Persian Gulf. At the Pardee Institute’s October 29 Lunch and Learn, Director of Research Development Taylor […]

October 22, 2026

Moyer brings Pardee’s research on global influence to the Europa Power Conference

Pardee Institute Director Jonathan Moyer joined think tank leaders, policymakers, and scholars in Strasbourg, France, to discuss how countries turn economic size and military strength into influence. The closed-door Global […]

October 15, 2026

Moyer helps leaders examine the choices shaping AI’s future

Artificial intelligence depends on more than advances in software. Its expansion requires energy, data centers, semiconductors, and financing. Whether its productivity gains translate into better jobs and wider economic opportunity […]

September 25, 2026

Register for Oct. 30 Korbel undergrad sprint on "What Do We Know About the Future?"

Can we actually predict the future? The short answer is no—but there are lots of useful tools to understand which future conditions and events are more or less certain. This […]

September 16, 2026

Hanna joins Colorado Startup Week panel on technology and global development

New tools for global development, from crop forecasting to digital aid distribution, promise to reach people faster and at lower cost. Many work in a pilot phase. The harder test […]

September 11, 2026

Global survey points to a gap between scenario use and perceived plausibility

Early results from a global survey suggest a disconnect between the socioeconomic scenarios researchers commonly use, and those respondents consider most reflective of today’s world.  Climate and development researchers lean […]

September 8, 2026

Keith Gehring brings IFs into the classroom during Fulbright residency in Serbia

During a five-month Fulbright residency in Belgrade, Keith Gehring worked with students to examine how Serbia’s policy choices could shape its future, using International Futures (IFs).  Gehring, a teaching associate […]

September 1, 2026

New IFs demo offers browser access; download supports custom scenarios

The Pardee Institute has made several changes to how users access International Futures (IFs). A new demo version runs in your browser with no installation, so you can explore forecasts […]

September 1, 2026

Pardee launches online IFs program to widen access to long-term analysis 

The Pardee Institute for International Futures has launched Strategic Forecasting with International Futures (IFs), its first fully online microcredential program and a new pathway for people who want to use IFs […]

August 27, 2026

Moyer brings scenario methods to WEF discussion of AI and cybercrime 

Frontier AI models, the most advanced general-purpose models available, are improving quickly. For experts working to prevent cybercrime, that pace creates a planning problem: How do you prepare for capabilities […]

August 17, 2026

Foreign Affairs essay uses IFs to examine Africa's demographic opportunity

Africa’s economic prospects depend partly on a demographic shift: a growing share of working-age adults relative to children and older dependents. In a new Foreign Affairs essay, Jakkie Cilliers, who […]

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