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  • UAE leads Gulf nuclear-power plans IISS Strategic Comments Banner The United Arab Emirates’ plan to become the first Arab country to operate a nuclear power plant came a step closer to fruition with the announcement in December 2009 that it had selected a Korean consortium to build four nuclear-power reactors. Though other Gulf states have in recent years declared their intention to explore nuclear power, the majority of their plans appear to be on hold. Fears that their nuclear-energy aspirations might be a preliminary step towards acquiring a nuclear deterrent against I
  • Receding prospects for Middle East peace IISS Strategic Comments Banner Efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian issue stalled in 2009, with both sides preoccupied with tackling domestic imperatives and restricted in their bargaining power by hardliners in their leadership. Attempts by the Obama administration to persuade the parties to make short-term sacrifices for the good of the long-term peace process have produced few results, save to demonstrate the limits of Washington’s influence in the region.
  • Strategic Comments – Vol 15, Issue 10 - Recovering Iraqi sovereignty Strategic Comments – Volume 15, Issue 10 – December 2010The dispatch of an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan, announced by President Barack Obama on 1 December, will improve the chances of reversing the growing momentum of the Taliban insurgency. While a new military strategy represents a clear step forward, many obstacles to success remain.
  • Survival Volume 51, No 6 - Structuring Middle East Security Survival 51-6 coverBy Peter Jones No single regional security system can possibly address the many questions in play. Rather, it might be best to conceive of the road ahead as leading to a ‘system of systems’.
  • Survival Volume 51, No 6 - Three Iraq Intelligence Failures Reconsidered Survival 51-6 coverBy David Hannay
  • Survival Volume 51, No 6 - A Prudent Decision on Missile Defence Survival 51-6 coverBy Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation
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