The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Sunday 12 February 2012

04 Sep 2009 - IISS Special Address - Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP

On Friday 04 September 2009 Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a special address to the IISS on Afghanistan - National Security and Regional Stability.

Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1983.

His speech followed his recent visit to Afghanistan.

This address was chaired Dr John Chipman, Director-General and CEO of the IISS

Strategic Survey 2009- Afghanistan: Insurgency Grows

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 the IISS will launch Strategic Survey 2009: The Annual Review of World Affairs. The book examines in detail important events such as the worsening violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Read More

Strategic Survey 2009 is available for pre-order. Copies will be dispatched after the launch.

Survival - The Struggle for Afghanistan

The lead article in the February-March issue of Survival is ‘Doctrine and Reality in Afghanistan’ by Adam Roberts, a long-time Survival contributor and professor at Oxford.

Also in this issue: The Way Forward in Afghanistan: Three Views by Barnett R. Rubin, Amin Saikal and Julian Lindley-French; Afghan Q&A: Robert Gates and David Petraeus and an Afghan Diary by Rodric Braithwaite.

The Search for Security in Post-Taliban Afghanistan

Afghans have become increasingly disillusioned with a state-building process that had failed to deliver the peace dividend that they were promised. Read more