Introduction

This is the final installment in a four-part series looking at the ISF's Threat Horizon 2025, Scenarios for an Uncertain Future. Today we explore the third and final known, unknown outline in the report, the future of international relations. Military conflicts, opposing ideologies, climate change, natural disasters and contrasty economic approaches will drive nations down different paths. Some will embrace a more isolated, self-interested position that takes the form of nationalism whereas others will embrace globalisation as a more attractive proposition. Change of their evolution will determine the viability of cyber warfare,. Could see the internet become Balkanised, further cutting off those nation states already physically isolating themselves.