Welcome to Manama Voices
Posted Friday 19 November, 10:00
By Alexander Nicoll, Director of Editorial, IISS
This new blog is the place to go to keep up to date with the Manama Dialogue. The 7th IISS Regional Security Summit will be held from 3 to 5 December in Manama, Bahrain. On this page, you can get news of speakers, and comments about regional security developments from IISS experts. You can follow the latest mentions of the Dialogue on Twitter as well as the most recent press coverage.
When the Dialogue begins on 3 December, we will feature blog posts and comments on the sessions from IISS experts, as well as key quotes from speakers in the plenary sessions, with photographs and video clips.
Since 2004, the Manama Dialogue has become established as the premier gathering for the national security establishments of regional countries to discuss key issues with important non-regional powers. It has seen lively sessions about key security and defence concerns of Gulf states, including the future of Iraq and of Iran’s nuclear programme. Government leaders, top ministers and officials, military leaders and academic experts have taken a full part in the debates. This unique forum has developed into an anchor of regional security.
The IISS, which this year opened a Middle East office in the Kingdom of Bahrain, is proud to convene the Dialogue. Over its 52-year history the IISS has been the leading independent authority on global security, through its research programmes and its publications such as the Military Balance. Each year it also convenes the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, the Global Strategic Review in Geneva, and the Bahrain Global Forum.
This year’s Manama Dialogue will have a busy agenda and a host of prominent speakers and delegates from more than 20 countries.
Follow it on Manama Voices. Contribute your insight via Twitter, using the hashtag #IISS_ME . Send your inquiries about the Dialogue to Manama@iiss.org.
