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The Global Strategic Review (GSR) constitutes the annual conference for IISS members. Held in Geneva, the GSR is intended to bring together the elite from the policy making and thinking community to reflect on some of the major security issues facing the world. 

 

The 2009 Global Strategic Review will be convened in Geneva from 11-13 September 2009.

Global Strategic Review 2008

Robert B Zoellick, President of the World Bank delivers the Keynote Address at the the 6th Global Strategic Review

The 6th Global Strategic Review (GSR) 'Changing Trends in Global Power and Conflict Resolution' took place from 12-14 September 2008 at the Intercontinental Hotel Geneva in Switzerland.

 

The Honorable Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, gave the Keynote Address on Friday 12th September.


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Shangri-La Dialogue 2008 

Shangri-La Dialogue Homepage

The 7th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue was successfully concluded on 1 June 2008. 

 

The Shangri-La Dialogue is recognised as a key event for defence and security diplomacy for the region. Since its inaugural meeting in 2002, the Dialogue has become an integral part of the architecture of Asian defence diplomacy

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Latest Publications

Survival 51-1 cover

New Survival Issue
Volume 51, Number 1 of Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, the Institute's bi-monthly journal, has been published. The lead article in the February-March issue is ‘Doctrine and Reality in Afghanistan’ by Adam Roberts.Also in the issue is 'What is Happening in Pakistan' by Hilary Synnott, IISS Consulting Senior Fellow and former High Commissioner in Pakistan. Read More

AP 402: Iraq's Sunni Insurgency
AP 402: Iraq's Sunni Insurgency - Ahmed S. Hashim

From 2003 to 2008, the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq posed a key challenge to political stability in the country and to Coalition objectives there. This paper explains the onset, composition and evolution of this insurgency. It begins by addressing both its immediate and deeper sociopolitical origins, and goes on to examine the multiple ideological strands within the insurgency and their often conflicting methods and goals. Read more

IISS Key Events

GSR 2009 Registration

Register for the 2009 GSR

 

GSR Delegate Homepage and Hotel Reservation

Agenda

View the 2009 GSR Draft Agenda

View the 2008 GSR agenda

Speeches

View the 2008 GSR Keynote Speech
View the 2008 GSR Plenary Speeches

Press Coverage

View the 2008 GSR press release
View the 2008 Press Coverage

Contact GSR Team

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the 2009 Global Strategic Review, please contact the GSR team