Center in Washington, DC, and addressed by Dr Shafeeq Ghabra, President, American University of Kuwait; Dr Bahiya Al-Jishi, Member of the Higher Council for Women,Bahrain; Professor Ali E. Hillal Dessouki, Professor of Political Science, Cairo University; and Dr Adel Abdellatif, Regional Coordinator, UNDP Programme on Governance in the Arab Region.
The last breakout group was chaired by Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Senior Vice President of the Boeing Company and member of the IISS Council. BP Group Vice President Nick Butler, EastLink Consulting Principal Jonathan Elkind, andRenmin University of China Associate Professor DrZha Daojiong debated the timely topic of energy security and international stability.
The IISS Global Strategic Review finished with a further two plenary sessions, the first on “ChinaandIndia: The Asian Rising Powers Debate,” chaired by Professor Heisbourg. India’s National Security Advisor, M.K. Narayanan, presented a authoritative and candid discussion from an Indian perspective, and Dr. Harry Harding, now Director of Research and Analysis with Eurasia Group, illuminated and clarified issues related to
China’s peaceful rise.
Dr Chipman again chaired the last session, on “Competing World Views and the Bases of International Order in the 21st Century.” Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of Singapore’s Lee Yew School of Public Policy and IISS Council member, elucidated a thought-provoking framework for alternatives to the existing world order, and Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Secretary General of the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation inEurope offered remarks rooted largely in Western democratic values.
Professor François Heisbourg concluded the successful weekend conference by underlining the growing challenges posed to the existing global order by evolving threats and the re-emergence of Asian power.
This third Global Strategic Review was made possible by generous support from the Swiss government, Democratic Control of Armed Forces, and IISS Executive Council member Andre Hoffmann.
Plans are already underway for next year’s GSR, which will return to Geneva on 8–10 September 2006 in Geneva.
