Spotlight on International Experts and Senior Fellows

IISS Bahrain Global Forum Spotlight on International Experts and Senior Fellows:

Nigel Inkster CMG and Michael Crawford CMG

In preparation for the inaugural IISS Geo-Economic Summit: The Bahrain Global Forum, spotlights on IISS Senior Fellows and Experts will be distributed twice weekly. The IISS Bahrain Global Forum will be held in Bahrain from 14 to 16 May 2010.

This week, we are pleased to feature Nigel Inkster CMG and Michael Crawford CMG, who are available for interviews now regarding the IISS Bahrain Global Forum. Please see below for information on these two gentlemen and also to spend '30 Seconds' with each of them.  To request an interview with Mr Inkster or Mr Crawford, or to inquire about the IISS Bahrain Global Forum, email bgf-press@iiss.org

Additional information on The IISS Bahrain Global Forum can be found at: http://www.iiss.org/bgf/.

Nigel Inkster CMG 

Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk

Expertise: International political risk, counter terrorism, international crime, proliferation of CBRN, cross-border conflict and other transnational/global issues

30 seconds with Nigel Inkster:  Shifts in the global distribution of economic power are likely relatively quickly to translate into shifts in political and military power. We are likely to see a transition away from the current situation in which the USA provides international public goods in the security arena towards a more uncertain system in which no one country does this. Developing a new model which balances the interests of status quo powers and newly emergent powers is likely to be one of the major challenges of the 21st century.

Michael Crawford CMG

Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East and South Asia

Expertise: Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, counter-proliferation, counter-terrorism  

The global economic downturn has had a considerable impact on the Gulf states and some other countries in the region. The IISS Bahrain Global Forum offers an opportunity to set that experience against the background of the broader world economy and to look at ways of improving both international and regional policies and structures to create greater resilience. New arrangements need to reflect global power shifts now under way.