Peripheral view for international strategy: Exploring vistas of the field's future

In this chapter we use a peripheral vision to explore emerging themes in International Strategy (IS) that can become more central in the future. We sketch out a number of changes that, taken together, could redefine the field's centre of gravity in the coming years. The chapter argues for a forward-looking, dynamic, phenomena-based, multi-dimensional, eclectic perspective of International Strategy (IS). It highlights nine shifts that, we believe, have the potential to change the direction of IS in the future. These shifts are related to some basic tenets of the field, such as focal actors, role of location, strategies, organization forms, or power.