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005 Keynote Address Q&A: Dr Henry A Kissinger, Dr John Chipman and Professor Francois Heisbourg

The IISS is pleased to announce that its 9^th annual Global Strategic Review (GSR) will be held on 9-11 September 2011 at the Intercontinental Hotel Geneva in Switzerland.

The GSR is the International Institute for Strategic Studies' principal venue for analysis of global foreign, defence and security policy. Its participants, drawn from over 40 countries, include IISS members, officials, diplomats, military personnel, academics, commentators, media and business representatives. Interdisciplinary in approach, the GSR each year audits the forces that are driving strategic change. It provides assessments of where new tensions may arise, but also points to areas that contain the possibility of progress towards conflict resolution.

It generates original thinking about the tools and structures - diplomatic, military, economic and bureaucratic - that national security establishments, regional security institutions and others will need in order to effectively pursue their priorities.

The event consists of a two-day conference spread over an opening dinner on the Friday, to a closing luncheon session on the Sunday. This is broken up into two formal dinners, six plenary sessions in front of the full audience on grand strategic subjects, and a half day of smaller special sessions that concentrate on very specific security challenges facing the international community.