The 8th IISS Global Strategic Review
‘Global Security Governance and
the Emerging Distribution of Power’
10–12 September 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
Agenda
All events will take place at
The InterContinental Hotel, 7–9 Chemin Du Petit-Saconnex, Geneva 1209
The Plenary Sessions (presentations and discussion) will be on the record
Break-Out Groups are off the record
Friday 10 September 2010
Afternoon Delegates arrive in Geneva; Registration
18:30-19:30 Opening Reception
19:30-22:00 Welcome, Keynote Address and Opening Dinner
Chair: Dr John Chipman
Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
Power Shifts and Security
Dr Henry A Kissinger
Former US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor
Saturday 11 September 2010
08:30-08:45 Opening Remarks
Dr John Chipman
Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
08:45-10:00 First Plenary Session
The United States and China: Visions of Global Order
Chair: Dr John Chipman
Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
James B Steinberg
US Deputy Secretary of State
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Second Plenary Session
Security Systems and Institutions: Regional Perspectives
Chair: Dr John Chipman
Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
Ambassador Celso Amorim
Minister of External Relations of Brazil
Ambassador Jayant Prasad,
Special Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, India
Javier Solana
President of the Centre for Global Economics and Geopolitcs, ESADE Business School;
and Former EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy
12:00-13:00 Third Plenary Session
The Evolving State / Non-State Nexus
Chair: Adam Ward
Director of Studies, IISS
Nigel Inkster
Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk, IISS
Emile Hokayem
Senior Fellow for Regional Security, IISS-Middle East
13:00-14:45 Lunch
15:00-16:30 Simultaneous Break-Out Groups (first sitting)
Group 1: The EU after the Lisbon Treaty: a credible global security actor?
Chair: Dr Bastian Giegerich
Senior Researcher, Bundeswehr Institute for Social Sciences
Vladimir Voronkov
Director for All-European Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation
Philip Stephens
Associate Editor, Financial Times
Prof Lanxin Xiang
Professor of International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Pierre Morel
EU Special Representative to Central Asia, Council of the European Union
Group 2: Does India have a grand strategy?
Chair: Sir Hilary Synnott
Consulting Senior Fellow, IISS
Ambassador Shyam Saran
Centre for Policy Research; Former Foreign Secretary of India
Ambassador Robert D Blackwill
Henry A Kissinger Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations;
Former US Ambassador to India
Rahul Roy-Chaudhury
Senior Fellow for South Asia, IISS
Group 3: Is Indonesia outgrowing ASEAN?
Chair: Dr Tim Huxley
Executive Director, IISS-Asia; Editor, Adelphis; Director, Defence and Military Analysis, IISS
Ambassador Dian Triansyah Djani
Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the UN, WTO, and other International Organisations in Geneva
Barry Desker
Dean, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Andrew Shearer
Director of Studies, Lowy Institute for International Policy
Group 4: Iran, the US and the future of the Middle East
Chair: Mark Fitzpatrick
Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation, IISS
Dr Dana Allin
Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Affairs; Editor of Survival, IISS
Steven Simon
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Emile Hokayem
Senior Fellow for Regional Security, IISS-Middle East
Dr Ariel Levite
Non Resident Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Group 5: How can a South American security system be built?
Chair: James Lockhart-Smith
Research Associate, IISS
Dr John Chipman
Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
Dr David Mares
Professor, Political Science and Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego
Group 6: Towards a new framework for the South Caucasus?
Chair: Oksana Antonenko
Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, IISS
Peter Semneby
EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus
Dr Archil Gegeshidze
Senior Fellow, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies
Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh
Director, Patterson School of Diplomacy, University of Kentucky
Group 7: Calibrating International law for 21st Century international security challenges
Chair: Michael Crawford
Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East and South Asia, IISS
Jami Miscik
President and Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.
Prof Steven Haines
Head, Security and Law Programme, Geneva Centre for Secuirty Policy
Jonathan Sumption QC
Barrister, IISS
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Simultaneous Break-Out Groups (second sitting)
Group 8: Can US global leadership be sustained?
Chair: Prof Francois Heisbourg
Chairman, IISS
Dr Dana Allin
Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Affairs; Editor of Survival, IISS
Prof Erik Jones
Professor of European Studies, SAIS Bolgna Center, Johns Hopkins University
Ellen Laipson
President and CEO, Henry L Stimpson Center
Group 9: Yemen, Somalia and beyond: statebuilding as counter-terrorism
Chair: Dr Toby Dodge
Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East, IISS
Gregory Johnsen
Near Eastern Studies Department, Princeton University
Dr Ken Menkhaus
Professor of Political Science, Davidson College
Clare Lockhart
Director, Institute for State Effectiveness
Group 10: Has Turkey rejoined the Middle East?
Chair: Dr Andrew Parasiliti
Executive Director, IISS-US; Corresponding Director, IISS-Middle East
Kemal Kaya
Senior Fellow, Institute for Security and Development, Sweden
Dr Henri Barkey
Bernard L and Bertha F Cohen Professor for International Relations, Lehigh University
Karabekir Akkonyunlu
Department of Government, London School of Economics
Group 11: Military capabilities: new trends in sea, land and air power
Chair: Dr Tim Huxley
Executive Director, IISS-Asia; Editor, Adelphis; Director, Defence and Military Analysis, IISS
Douglas Barrie
Senior Fellow for Military Aerospace, IISS
Christian Le Miere
Research Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security, IISS
Brigadier Benjamin Barry
Senior Fellow for Land Warfare - Designate, IISS
Group 12: Addressing the drugs trade as an international security threat
Chair: Nigel Inkster
Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk, IISS
Daniel Rico Valencia
Former Advisor to the Colombian Defence Ministry on counter-narcotics policies
Rob Wainwright
Director, Europol
Group 13: Nuclear security
Chair: Ben Rhode
Research Associate for Non-proliferation and Disarmament, IISS
Ken Luongo
President, Partnership for Global Security
Dr Rajiv Nayan
Senior Research Associate, The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Dehi
Dr Teng Jianqun
Director for the Centre of Arms Control, China Institute of International Studies
Group 14: Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace: The Role of Economics
Chair: Prof Mats Berdal
Professor of Security and Development, King's College London; Consulting Senior Fellow, IISS
Dr Achim Wennmann
Researcher, Graduate Institute of International Development Studies, Geneva
James Cockayne
Director, New York office, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation
18:30-19:30 Reception
19:30-20:15 Discussion
The Strategy for Afghanistan
Chair: Dr John Chipman
Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
Dr Liam Fox
Secretary of State for Defence, UK
20:15-22:30 Dinner
Sunday 12 September 2010
08:45-10:00 Fourth Plenary Session
Strengthening the Global Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Regime
Chair: Mark Fitzpatrick
Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation, IISS
Mikhail Margelov
Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, Federation Council of Russia, Federal Assembly of Russia
Laura Kennedy
Ambassador, US Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:45 Fifth Plenary Session
Towards a Comprehensive Energy Security
Chair: Dr Andrew Parasiliti
Executive Director, IISS-US; Corresponding Director, IISS-Middle East
James Smith
Chairman, Shell UK
Richard Jones
Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency
Oksana Antonenko
Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, IISS
11:45-13:00 Sixth Plenary Session
Cyberpower and Strategy
Chair: Prof Francois Heisbourg
Chairman, IISS
Martin Libicki
Senior Management Scientist, RAND Corporation
Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar
Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary, Ministry of Defence, Estonia
13:00-13:15 Envoi
Prof Francois Heisbourg
Chairman, IISS
13:15-14:30 Closing luncheon
