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Strategic Survey 2004 -2005 Cover

The IISS launched Strategic Survey   2004/5 on 24 May 2005. Strategic Survey , an assessment and forecast of security-related events around the world, is an invaluable tool for interpreting strategic developments. This book examines key issues in their political contexts and identifies important trends in international security. Background data and analyses are supplemented with detailed maps.

Strategic Survey 2004/5 edition contents:

Perspectives

Strategic Policy Issues
The US Military and the Limits of ‘Transformation’
Nuclear Proliferation: Avoiding the ‘Greatest Possible Danger’
Terrorism and the Stalled Evolution of International Law
Challenges of US Intelligence Reform

 

The Americas
The United States: Whose Nationalism?
Retrogression in the Andes
Brazil: Regional Leadership and Beyond

 

Europe / Russia
Europe: Soft Power, Hard Choices
Putin’s Dilemmas
Turkey: Pyrrhic Victory In Brussels?

 

Middle East / Gulf
Iraq: Quagmire or Opportunity?
Iran: Ongoing Crisis
Saudi Arabia’s Evolutionary Change
Tipping Point in the Middle East

 

Africa
Sudan: Africa’s New Test Case
Congo’s Political Break-out Year?
Roiling West Africa
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Impunity

 

Asia
Continuing Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
China: Growing Power, Troubled Diplomacy
India and Pakistan: Cautious Engagement
Afghanistan and the New Central Asian Security Complex
Fragile Stability and Resolve in Southeast Asia
Japan’s Diplomatic, Economic and Political Vitality

 

Prospectives