Geo-economics and Strategy

Geo-economics and Strategy

With many Western economies in crisis and developing nations ascendant, is a new world order emerging? This programme - run from the IISS Middle East office, but with a bureau in Delhi - studies how financial shifts affect the global distribution of power.

'I applaud the IISS for building what has become a truly global think tank for an obviously globalised world.'

Former Senator Joseph Lieberman

Workshop

Economics in the new Middle East

Can Egypt's new Muslim Brotherhood government improve the lives of ordinary citizens? Will ex-militia members or a reinvented elite control Libya’s riches in the post-Gadhafi era? Papers from this workshop make fascinating reading.

Oberoi Discussion Forum

Returning geopolitics to the trade table

Economic growth is a vital tool in managing geopolitical tensions, the head of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, said at this recent forum in Delhi. He called for a return to thinking in geostrategic terms about the international policy environment that supports growth.

The Surprising Sources of Oil's Influence

Connections between the oil trade and international politics have declined in recent decades, but there is no reason to assume that these changes are permanent.