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IISS US Expertise

IISS Staff specialising in US affairs include:

Dr Andrew Parasiliti, Executive Director, IISS-US;
Dr Dana Allin, Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Affairs, Editor of Survival;
Mark Fitzpatrick, Director, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme;
Brigadier General HR McMaster, Consulting Senior Fellow; and
Adam Ward, Director of Studies.

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International Institute for Strategic Studies - US

IISS-US Adelphi Book Launch - Cyberspace and the State

Nigel Inkster, Director, Transnational Threats and Political Risk Programme, IISS and a panel including Christopher Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, US Department of State, addressed issues raised in IISSs recent Adelphi book Cyberspace and the State: Toward a Strategy for Cyber-Power, at a launch event at IISS-US in washington DC.

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‘By providing a conceptual framework for looking at what power is in the cyber domain and how it is exercised, this book offers policy-makers valuable guidance in how to think about a major security issue.’ Michael Hayden, Director of the CIA, 2006–09

Survival - Defending Europe

In the new issue of Survival: Global Politics & Strategy, Matthew Harries explores the potential for increased French-British cooperation on nuclear issues and finds intriguing possibilities for Britain and France as Nuclear Partners. Unless the growing gap between governance and governed is resolved, the EU may be headed for fragmentation, if not outright dissolution argues Charles Kupchan in Centrifugal Europe.

Also in this issue: Michael Elleman on Iran's missile threat, Andrew Parasiliti on the end of America’s mission in Iraq, and Erik Jones examines Italy's debt crisis.

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The Syrian Uprising Seen From The Arab World

The Gulf States will play a more important role in Syria in the coming months, but their lack of knowledge of the Syrian opposition will prevent them from acting in unison. This was one of the messages to emerge from a talk by Middle East expert Emile Hokayem at IISS-US.

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Related: Watch Emile Hokayem discuss the Syrian Uprising on PBS Newshour

Revolutionary Road: Dispatches from a changing Middle East - Read Emile Hokayem's account of a research trip through the Arab Awakening.

New Adelphi Book - Afghanistan to 2015 and Beyond

As international security forces prepare to depart from Afghanistan, the latest Adelphi book turns attention to the ability of a ravaged country to tackle its myriad security problems, overcome crippling poverty and corruption and somehow revive its devastated economy.

Watch the panel discussion at the London launch of Afghanistan to 2015 and beyond on 11 January

The Future of the Missile Technology Control Regime

IISS-US held a panel discussion to address the Missile Technology Control Regime. The panel examined the MTCR’s record in slowing missile proliferation, including in Iran and North Korea, and its application to unmanned aerial vehicles.

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Oil on troubled waters?

Somaliland petrol pump. Photo by Flickr user guleed

Strange news from Somalia, where they are drilling for oil. Some optimists believe that the conflict-ridden nation could be sitting on 3bn-4bn barrels.

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