Press Coverage

Global Strategic Review 2011

Global Strategic Review

GSR 2011 Press Coverage

24 September 2011 - - The National - A concert of the Middle EastTwo weeks ago, at a meeting of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Geneva that I attended, Prince Turki outlined his proposal to deal with the region's most urgent issues through two broad arcs: reviving the Arab Peace Initiative (ie a comprehensive Israeli-Arab peace rather than a separate Israeli-Palestinian one) and the decades-old idea of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction (ie tackling the Israeli and Iranian nuclear issues together, rather than ignoring the former and fo
17 September 2011 - - The Nation (Pakistan) - 9/11 - a look back and into the futureThe fallout of the post-9/11 American adventurism was reviewed at the recently held conference organised by the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies. Here is an excerpt from Dr Maleeha Lodhis article, which she wrote after attending the conference: There was considerable agreement that the US had overreacted to the 9/11 attacks, tragic as they were. This also reflected a common theme in many analyses of the post-9/11 decade in the international media. Several thoughtful reviews have c
15 September 2011 - - The News International - Decade of strategic upsetsThis years annual conference organised by the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) coincided with the tenth anniversary of the attacks of 9/11. This focused the discussion not just on the dramatic changes sweeping the Arab world but on what the decade following 9/11 has entailed: the dilemmas and issues thrown up but not always resolved, and long term trends and their implications for international security policy.
14 September 2011 - - Arms Control Today - Obstacles for the Gulf StatesBy Dina Esfandiary, Elham Fakhro and Becca Wasser
13 September 2011 - - Agence Global - Egypt's Next President?The Treaty will continue to exist, he told me in an exclusive interview on 10 September, but Egypt needs forces in Sinai. The security situation requires it. Israel must understand that the restrictions imposed by the Treaty have to be reviewed. Amr Moussa was speaking in Geneva a day after delivering the keynote address at the annual conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a leading London-based think tank.
13 September 2011 - - World Policy Institute - NATO Heads Toward the Nursing HomeNATO won't be dismantled. Instead, it will move to an old people's home. Sure, member-state officials will drop by Brussels now and then to pat auntie on the head, but they won't expect her to do any heavy lifting. This pungent metaphor was coined by veteran U.S. diplomat Robert Blackwill at the conference that kicks off the transatlanticists' high season each fall. Surprisingly, virtually everyone at the Geneva palaver of the International Institute for Strategic Studies last weekend agreed.