Press Coverage 2009

GSR 2009 Press Coverage

29 Sep 2009 - - Washington Times - Reality bites Obama's 'West Wing'Clark Judge, a recent delegate to the annual Global Security Review conference in Geneva, sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, was surprised by the emerging "wide skepticism" of the president. "The impression emerged for me," he says, "that Mr. Obama's riveting rhetoric is in danger of turning from a plus to a minus." One former foreign minister scorns the president's "pointless rhetoric, no matter how elegantly expressed."
29 Sep 2009 - - Foreign Policy in Focus - The Hayden LetterThe general has an awfully tin ear for the public. At a mid-September conference in Geneva sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Hayden argued that besides the usual technical and legal considerations, intelligence activities need to be "politically sustainable." The CIA interrogation program was inherently controversial because it went against the grain of traditional American values it was never politically sustainable. The notion that refusing to investigate these excesses can
17 Sep 2009 - - Washington Post - A New Deal for The CIAThe question is how to put the pieces back together -- how to restore public trust in intelligence. I heard powerful presentations on that subject last Saturday in Geneva by Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA director, and Sir David Omand, former coordinator of British intelligence. They were speaking at a meeting of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.
15 Sep 2009 - - Le Temps - Le président Barack Obama est malgré lui un stratège à temps partielTrois cents jours après lélection de Barack Obama, les efforts du président des Etats Unis pour relancer les divers dossiers de politique étrangère dont il a hérité se heurtent à une série dobstacles. Zbigniew Brzezinski, lancien conseiller de Jimmy Carter, qui a également participé à la campagne dObama, sen est expliqué à louverture de lExamen stratégique mondial organisé chaque année à Genève par lInstitut international détudes stratégiques de Londres (IISS).
15 Sep 2009 - - Reuters - U.S. needs shrewder Afghan strategy, say expertsLaunching its annual review of world affairs, the International Institute for Strategic Studies argued that, amid declining public support for the war in both the United States and Europe, more combat troops on the ground coupled with aid and political reform was not a sufficient strategy. "A more cunning regional strategy is also necessary," John Chipman, the head of the IISS, said at the unveiling of the 2009 Strategic Survey in London.
14 Sep 2009 - - KUNA - IISS US chief says there is room to achive Mideast peaceTalking to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) at the conclusion of the annual IISS meeting in Geneva, Parasiliti said that there is hope for peace in the Middle East because the Obama administration has come in and given this topic a great deal of urgency. "The intention of the Obama administration seems to be to give the Middle East the strategic priority that it merits, obviously these issues are not resolved easily nor fast, but looking at the past six months one can say that the administration has given t