Forum:Forward Engagement
From Campaigns Wikia
Forward Engagement is the name of a policy development concept developed by Leon Fuerth, former National Security Advisor to Vice President Al Gore, Jr. and Research Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University's Eliott School of International Affairs, to describe the process of thinking systematically about the longer-range future, and about ways in which public policy might engage the future sooner, rather than later.
Forward Engagement conveys a three, underlying thoughts:
- Human society is facing an acceleration of major historical events, some of them carrying the potential for major societal and international consequences.
- U.S. society and, more specifically, the U.S. government needs to address such possibilities, in terms of policies and resources, as far in advance as possible.
- There needs to be a system to help government visualize more consistently what may be approaching from the longer-range future, and to deliberate in a more timely way about possible responses.
Forward Engagement seeks to comprehend major future developments in the broad categories of defense, economics, science and technology, and governance – and to strive to understand how these developments interact and influence each other. In the real world, things are far more inter-connected than our specializations, and we filter out these connections at peril to our real appreciation of what is shaping our lives.
