Gordon Brown Address - Q&A Session

Afghanistan - National Security and Regional Stability

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