The NIC's Strategic Analysis Program is a systematic research and development program on broad cross-cutting issues for the new millennium. The first two years of the program culminated in the production of a major report, Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future with Nongovernment Experts. The paper identifies seven key drivers that will shape the world in 2015. The Strategic Analysis Program will continue to examine broad features of the changing security environment, such as:

• The Changing Nature and Sources of Military Power: How changes in the global economy and S&T advances are likely to alter the nature of military challenges. The changing military doctrines of emerging WMD states.

• The Expanding Revolution in Science and Technology: The implications of the growing interactions among critical technologies, including information technology, biotechnology, materials technology, and nanotechnology.

• Global Economic Challenges and Globalization: The implications of the worldwide economic downturn for political and social stability. The prospects for globalization.

• The Geopolitics of Energy: The geopolitical and economic implications of the changing oil market: the world’s ability to satisfy the growing demand for energy, and OPEC’s role.