When we opened the IISS-Middle East Office in Bahrain, Dr John Chipman, the Institute’s Director-General said: “The IISS will translate the best of its work into Arabic and distribute it to government, business leaders, the media and academics in the region.”
Today we are pleased to preview, here on Manama Voices, two recent articles from Strategic Comments, the Institute’s online source of analysis of international security and politico-military issues, in Arabic.
Lebanon indictments set to raise tensions
Tensions are growing in Lebanon ahead of the issuance of indictments, expected later this year, in the February 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister. On 27 October, two investigators working for the United Nations-mandated Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) were attacked by a group of women affiliated with Hizbullah while searching the records of a clinic located in the Hizbullah stronghold of Dahiyah, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. This incident and other significant difficulties met by the STL prompted the UN Security Council to meet on 5 November and reiterate its support for the tribunal.
اتهامات مقتل الحريري ستسبب تصاعد التوتر في لبنان
China's three-point naval strategy
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has in 2010 taken part in numerous exercises, experimented with long-range force projection and represented China abroad in a number of diplomatic visits. This heightened level of activity results from an ambitious naval strategy which seeks to secure China's access to energy resources and to give it more diplomatic leverage in territorial disputes with its neighbours.
إستراتيجية القوات البحرية الصينية ثلاثيّة المُقوّمات
'Strategic Comments fills an important niche in the pantheon of publications of the IISS. Foreign-affairs experts and business executives who rely on timely and accurate analyses of breaking international developments will find it invaluable' Dr Henry Kissinger
