The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Friday 10 February 2012

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Welcome

The Maldives: Trouble in paradise

Virginia Comolli

What will Russia say today to Syria?

IISS Voices

Keeping the euro limping along

Dana Allin

The EU and the Iranian nuclear issue

Dina Esfandiary

Survival: Global Politics and Strategy iPad app launched

Survival for iPad:

Our new free app lets you purchase new issues of the bi-monthly journal Survival: Global Politics and Strategy to enjoy on your iPad, with additional graphics, audio and video.

IISS Voices:
Survival Managing Editor Jeff Mazo discusses the app

Free App Content:
Britain and France as Nuclear Partners

By Matthew Harries

The 2010 treaty is modest in scope, but there are intriguing possibilities for future collaboration, and perhaps for trilateral cooperation involving the United States.

Publications

Strait of Hormuz: Iran's disruptive military options

Could Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz, or significantly hinder traffic passing through it? A recent decision by the European Union to impose a total embargo on the purchase of Iranian oil has prompted threats from Tehran to close the world's most important oil chokepoint. However, an assessment of military capabilities deployed in the area, and of likely tactics, suggests that Iran would find it difficult or unpalatable to cause major disruption.

Read the latest IISS Strategic Comment

Map: Strait of Hormuz: Iranian, US and Allied assets in the region

Events

What follows UN Security Council impasse over Syria?

A Syrian military tank takes position in a residential street in Homs. JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images

Violence in Syria was likely to escalate after Russia and China's veto on the weekend of a UN Security Council draft resolution calling for President Bashar al-Assad to step down. That was the conclusion of an IISS panel discussion on Monday. IISS Senior Fellow for Middle East Security Emile Hokayem forecast a massive regime counter-attack on the opposition, as the government sought to take back control of areas it had lost. Meanwhile there would be a 'qualitative shift' in the Syrian diaspora, Gulf states and others arming the opposition Free Syrian Army.

Watch the discussion

Conferences

EU Conference on Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

Experts gathered in Brussels at the weekend to discuss nuclear weapons, at a conference organised by the IISS. It took place after the EU banned Iranian oil sales to try to persuade Tehran back to the nuclear negotiating table. Read more

Watch speeches from the conference

Publications

Military Balance 2012

The Military Balance 2012, the annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 170 countries world-wide will be launched on Wednesday 7 March 2012.

Pre-order The Military Balance 2012