• West Africa's drug problem

    The cocaine coast

    West Africa's drug problem

    A surge in drug-trafficking through West Africa has hit regional security, stability and development. Two advisors to Kofi Annan’s new West Africa Commission on the Impact of Drugs (WACD) discuss their recent research in the field.

    This event will be streamed live

  • Middle East oil refinery Photo BP

    Global Perspectives Lecture Series

    The new environment for Middle East oil

    With Asia importing more oil and the US producing more of its own, the market for Middle East oil is changing. But the shift is more complex than substituting one buyer for another. 


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  • The 10th GSR

    IISS members' conference Stockholm-bound

    'Assessing Global Risk' is the theme of this year’s IISS Global Strategic Review conference, which will be held in Stockholm from Friday 20 September to Sunday 22 September, at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre and the Grand Hotel.

    Registration is now open

  • AP436-USPACOM-exercise

    Adelphi Book

    Whose South China Sea?

    Rival territorial claims by China and other nations have wider ramifications in a region where the US and China are vying for hegemony. In their book Regional Disorder, Sarah Raine and Christian Le Miere explore the detail.


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  • The essential military reference

    The Military Balance 2013

    The latest edition of the institute’s flagship book, The Military Balance, has essays on the wars in Afghanistan and Syria, and on trends in capabilities  – as well as our regular inventory of 171 countries’ troops, arsenals and defence budgets.


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  1. The cocaine coast

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  3. The 10th GSR

  4. Adelphi Book

  5. The essential military reference

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Survival: Global Politics and Strategy

Learning lessons from Mali

Operations in Mali, Obama's drone war, the cyber attack on Saudi Aramco and how Iran’s fatwa on nuclear weapons could help defuse its standoff with the West - all these and more are covered in the latest edition of the IISS journal, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy.

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Nguyen Tan Dung

12th IISS Asia Security Summit

Shangri-La Dialogue 2013

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung will be among the speakers at this year's Dialogue, in Singapore on 31 May-02 June.

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Liu Xiaoming

Power shift in Beijing

Generation Xi

Chinese Ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming discusses what foreign policy will look like in an ever-more powerful China led by President Xi Jinping.

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Heizo Takenaka

Explaining 'Abenomics'

CPR for Japan's economy

Since taking office at the end of 2012, Japan’s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has launched an aggressive monetary, fiscal and growth policy, in an all-out bid to finally revive his country’s moribund economy. One of Abe's tops economic advisers, Dr Heizo Takenaka, spells out the policy.

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