
Every now and then I get a respite from administrative work to write an in-depth piece about my true love — the work we do as futurists. I am grateful to colleagues Gabrielle Rizzo and Tony Masys for providing me this opportunity giving me a chapter in their new Handbook of Foresight, Strategy, and Futures Studies for Defense and Security. It is sure to become a must-have in the security domain, but thankfully plays nicely in the foresight field at large.
KEY POINT: The tool kit is indeed expanding along with growing client interest.
In Methodologies in Futures Studies and Foresight: A State of the Art and Future Directions, I had the juicy opportunity to characterize the state-of-the-art as well as future directions in our methodology. Yes please! The good news is that as our field continues to mature, we see evidence of this in our methods and practices. As a young discipline we have been heavily reliant on practitioners with a small academic base, which has contributed to more emphasis on innovating around existing methods than inventing new ones. But this has been changing! Interest in the field has grown, including a significant surge of interest by the public sector and global NGOs.
Dig in and enjoy! — Andy Hines
Citation: Hines, Andy. (2025). Methodologies in Futures Studies and Foresight – a State of the Art and Future Directions. In Rizzo, Gabrielle and Anthony Masys, Eds. Handbook of Foresight, Strategy, and Futures Studies for Defense and Security. Springer Nature, Switzerland.

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