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19 Nov 2009 - GBCORP Press Release - International Institute of Strategic Studies signs up with GBCORP Tower

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:17:19 GMT

"We are pleased to welcome IISS to the GBCORP Tower. It is a matter of pride for GBCORP to be chosen as a location for a globally respected organization whose research and activities have far-reaching impact both regionally and globally. IISS' decision to set up their Middle East base in Bahrain and operate out of the GBCORP Tower is a testament to our strategic location and the multi level integrated facilities on offer, which are among the best on the island and at par with international standards. We are

19 Nov 2009 - Al Bawaba - IISS signs up with GB Corp

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:10:27 GMT

The office in GBCORP Tower will be the base for the IISS’s many research programmes and activities throughout the region and will serve to connect IISS activities in Europe, North America and Asia with those in the Middle East. The IISS office in Bahrain will work closely with the entire IISS global network to provide not just first class information and analysis on Middle East and broader international strategic issues, but also strengthen links between the strategic community in the Middle East and those

18 Nov 2009 - - Bangkok Post - A required check-list for nuclear ambitions

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:22 GMT

By Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

17 Nov 2009 - - IISS Press Release - Manama Dialogue Spotlight on International Experts and Senior Fellows

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:18:16 GMT

In preparation for the forthcoming IISS Regional Security Summit, The Manama Dialogue, spotlights on IISS Senior Fellows and Experts will be distributed bi-weekly. The Manama Dialogue will be held in Bahrain from 11 to 13 December 2009. This week, we are pleased to feature Dr Andrew Parasiliti and Nigel Inkster CMG.

17 Nov 2009 - - Associated Press - Kurdish, Sunni demands may derail Iraqi elections

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:59:40 GMT

"You have an electoral law that generally the U.S. is desperate to get it through parliament, and so move heaven and Earth behind it," said Toby Dodge, an Iraq expert at Queen Mary college, University of London. "So the law goes through, and then the big beasts of Baghdad politics start quibbling ... to try to get a better deal for their own sectarian interests."

16 Nov 2009 - - Guardian - Britain's future role in Afghanistan: Six experts give their view

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:27:00 GMT

Nigel Adderley, defence analyst, International Institute for Strategic Studies We are ingrained in a complex situation in Afghanistan and it would be totally inappropriate to pull out now. At the moment, Isaf troops are operating in an area of the country that is largely ungoverned.

13 Nov 2009 - - The National - The Gulf’s powder keg

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:53:02 GMT

“It’s not necessarily a north-south divide, but there is a structural weakness to the state that came out of the civil war, which emboldens any kind of rebellious movement,” said Mahmoun Fandy, a Gulf security specialist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Strong tribal networks with access to arms further diminish state power, he added.

13 Nov 2009 - - ABS-CBN News - Philippine non-proliferation leadership role will need support

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:53:09 GMT

By Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

12 Nov 2009 - - Guardian - Guardian fined by Iraqi court in ruling seen as attack on press freedom

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:22:31 GMT

Mamoun Fandy, an expert on the Gulf at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the comparisons to Saddam were misplaced. He said: "It is new that a leader or an intelligence agency in that part of the world takes a journalist in their jurisdiction to court instead of jailing him or ordering him being bumped off." "These are the key strategic assets of the Pakistan Army. This is what prevents India from attacking them, in their view."

10 Nov 2009 - - Middle East Bulletin - Understanding the Nuclear Negotiations

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:42:25 GMT

Interview with Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

10 November 2009 - - The Iraq Inquiry - ‘What were the causes and consequences of Iraq’s descent into violence'

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:39:40 GMT

By Dr Toby Dodge, Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East

08 Nov 2009 - - Reuters - Pakistan's nuclear weapons are safe, for now

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:51:57 GMT

"If the Pakistan Army does one thing, it will be to ensure the nuclear assets stay with them," said Rahul Roy-Chaudhury at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "These are the key strategic assets of the Pakistan Army. This is what prevents India from attacking them, in their view."

06 Nov 2009 - - Daily Mail - Miliband may get Brussels job 'in days' as Blair's hopes fade

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:21:05 GMT

EU leaders are said to have been impressed by Mr Miliband's ferociously pro-European speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies a couple of weeks ago.

05 Nov 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Dalai Lama trip strains India-China ties

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:19:27 GMT

Rahul Roy-Choudhury, who runs the South Asia security program at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, agrees that New Delhi and Beijing approach their common disputes from different angles. "For India the border issue is much more of a concern, along with trade issues. For China, the greater concern is Tibet," Roy-Choudhury told AFP.

05 November 2009 - - The Iraq Inquiry - Evidence of Dr Toby Dodge

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:46:47 GMT

By Dr Toby Dodge, Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East

04 Nov 2009 - - Reuters - Mousavi Supporters Clash With Police In Tehran

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:50:07 GMT

The nuclear question and relations with the West have also caused deep divisions alongside the political furor. "There is real domestic turmoil in Iran," said Mark Fitzpatrick, senior non-proliferation fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.

03 Nov 2009 - - South China Morning Post - China 'to put weapons in space'

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:22:27 GMT

"We can see the building blocks are steadily being put in place for fully utilising space, but at the moment it looks to be just one of many priorities for the air force," said Gary Li, a researcher on the Chinese military at the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies.

03 Nov 2009 - - Bloomberg - Iran’s Military Power Subject to New U.S. Study Used for China

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:14:35 GMT

The Iran report might be more effective were it to include updates on diplomatic negotiations and Iran’s compliance with UN Security Council resolutions and the atomic energy agency, said Michael Elleman, a visiting senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Washington.

03 Nov 2009 - - Frontline - Friendship first

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:49:47 GMT

ccording to Tim Huxley, Singapore-based expert from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the beginning of the end of the American era in East Asia occurred more than 40 years ago. In 1968, the then U.S. President, Richard Nixon, “set the scene for the withdrawal of American combat forces from Vietnam and for American allies in the region doing more to defend themselves”, Huxley said in a recent conversation. While China might now want to “Finlandise Japan” into a “non-player”, as in the histor

02 Nov 2009 - - Fars News Agency - US Official: IAEA Guarantees Delivery of Fuel to Iran

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:02:59 GMT

Fitzpatrick, who is a Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation with the International Institute for Strategic Studies and acts as an advisor to the US State Department in nuclear affairs, said the best guarantee for Iran to ensure the West would deliver upon its promises to provide nuclear fuel to Iranian power plants was the one by the IAEA because the international nuclear watchdog was frankly after having the plan ratified and implemented.

02 Nov 2009 - - Russia Profile - Kiss and Make Up

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:41:37 GMT

Lavrov’s invitation to Miliband, and the Russian talk of a “reset” in relations, signifies a longstanding willingness, at least on the Russian side, to put those quarrels to rest. “There was always an attitude on the Russian side that we should forget the issue of Lugovoi and Litvinenko and move on,” noted Oksana Antonenko of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London.

01 Nov 2009 - - Miami Herald - Time for common Latin American visa

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:01:00 GMT

Sadly, the constant territorial and political conflicts among Latin American countries are resulting in rising military expenditures. Military spending in Latin America has skyrocketed by 91 percent over the past four years to nearly $47.2 billion last year, according to the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies.

01 Nov 2009 - - Mail on Sunday - Miliband emerges as frontrunner for key EU role as Sarkozy sinks Blair's chances of President j

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:24:11 GMT

EU leaders are said to have been impressed by Mr Miliband's pro-European speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies last week

31 Oct 2009 - - Houston Chronicle - U.S. should not give up on Iran diplomacy efforts

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:30:31 GMT

By Dr Andrew Parasiliti, Executive Director IISS-US, Corresponding Director IISS-Middle East

31 Oct 2009 - - Reuters - Senior Iran MPs Reject U.N. Atom Fuel Plan

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:54:28 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick, senior non-proliferation fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, described it as a "politically treacherous" issue for Iran. "They (the leadership) find it hard to strike any deal with the West even though this is an obviously good deal for them," he said. "It's stalling but it is not just tactical stalling. There is real domestic turmoil in Iran."

30 Oct 2009 - - Reuters - IAEA awaits urgent Iran reply on fuel deal

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:14:41 GMT

"Iran is stalling, but it isn't just a negotiation tactic," said Mark Fitzpatrick, senior non-proliferation fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. "It faces real political trouble as all the power centers jockey for position. Nobody wants the rival to get credit for landing the big prize of U.S. relations."

30 Oct 2009 - - Straits Times - Sino-Russian ties: Utility over affinity

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:34:50 GMT

Speaking at a conference organised by the International Institute for Strategic Studies last year, Mr Daniel Fung, a senior counsel from Hong Kong, noted that China has been dealing with Russia for 300 years. 'China is not starry-eyed about Russia, neither does it see Russia as the great ogre hell-bent on reviving the Cold War. In terms of political, military and economic power, Russia is no longer the Soviet Union,' said the president of the International Law Association, Hong Kong Chapter.

29 Oct 2009 - - Evening Herald (Plymouth) - Diplomat to give talk on Pakistan

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:45:51 GMT

The University of Plymouth will host a lecture on the state of Pakistan and its implications for world affairs by Sir Hilary Synnott, former British High Commissioner to Islamabad. Entitled 'Pakistan: How did it come to this?', Sir Hilary will assess historical developments in the country and the surrounding region at the 2009 Lord Caradon Lecture next month.

29 Oct 2009 - - Webster University Seminar - ‘Successes and Failure of NPT or World without NPT?’

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:05:41 GMT

By Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

28 Oct 2009 - - Gulf News - Gates to lead US delegation to Manama Dialogue

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:27:52 GMT

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will for the third consecutive time lead the US delegation to the Manama Dialogue in December in a clear indication of the importance the US is attaching to the annual security conference. The French, who have repeatedly said that Europe should play a bigger role in the region, will also enhance their participation and will most likely send their foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, diplomats told Gulf News.

28 Oct 2009 - - Financial Times - Power politics

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:56:45 GMT

But, whatever his secret musings, Miliband made an interesting and thoughtful speech on Britain and Europe a couple of days ago at the IISS in London. He argued that the world is heading for an "Age of Continents", in which sheer size will be increasingly important. The world will either be run by a G2 of China and the US, or by a G3 that includes the EU. The moral is that Britain has to throw its lot in with the EU, or face increas-ing irrelevance. As Miliband himself notes, the Tories' aversion to deeper

28 Oct 2009 - - Le Monde - Too Late...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:50:53 GMT

Le plus gravement atteint est le jeune et brillant secrétaire au Foreign Office, David Miliband. Déjà, au congrès du Labour, le mois dernier, il avait dit toute sa foi dans l'Union européenne. Lundi 26 octobre, il est allé plus loin. Dans un discours important, il a relégué au deuxième plan ce qui était depuis toujours le pilier numéro un de la politique étrangère britannique : la relation privilégiée avec les Etats-Unis. M. Miliband, qui pourrait être appelé à diriger le Labour, lui substitue une autre pri

28 Oct 2009 - - South China Morning Post - Pirates turn ancient trade into model modern business

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:24:03 GMT

"China's military is facing an unprecedented situation here," said Gary Li, a researcher on the PLA at Lon-don's International Institute of Strategic Studies. "So many of the challenges we know that they are going to have to face in the future are present ... whether it is questions over command-and-control issues and intel-ligence gathering to how it will handle domestic pressure demanding the use of force. It is going to be fascinating to watch this play out."

27 Oct 2009 - - CNN - U.S. Welcomes China #2 Military Chief

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:07:40 GMT

You just heard about china's military buildup and capabilities, and when you compare defense budgets, here's something else. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the U.S. budget for last year was $693 billion, the defense budget. China's a mere fraction of that, at about $61 billion. Take a look at this. China has more active troops, almost 2.2 million, compared to almost 1.6 million active troops for the U.S.

27 Oct 2009 - - Financial Times- Miliband warns on choice for European president

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:25:16 GMT

In a speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Mr Miliband said: "The choice for Europe is simple: get our act together and make the EU a leader on the world stage or become spectators in a G2 world shaped by the US and China." Mr Miliband said the EU's foreign policy was blighted by confused messages, patchy co-ordination and relationships with global powers that lacked "clarity, strategy or purpose". "It is very strongly in the British national interest for the EU to dev

27 Oct 2009 - - Independent - Mr Miliband makes a strong case

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:33:26 GMT

David Miliband yesterday delivered the kind of speech that is too seldom heard in British politics; a speech that made a strong and unambiguous case for a greater role for the European Union on the global stage. As the Foreign Secretary argued, it is in Britain's "national interest" to see the EU develop a strong foreign policy.

27 Oct 2009 - - Guardian - Blair's European bid: Don't mention the war

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:39:40 GMT

David Miliband yesterday made a comprehensive case for the role the EU can play on the world stage. He is right to argue that the EU does not get commensurate value for its provision of 40% of the UN's budget, almost two-thirds of the world's development assistance, 2 million men under arms, and 40,000 diplomats. Perhaps his speech was an extended job application for the post of foreign policy chief, for which he would be well suited. Yes, he voted for the Iraq war, but was not instrumental in the decision-

27 Oct 2009 - - Independent - David Miliband: this is my ambition for Europe

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:46:04 GMT

n the most pro-European speech by a British foreign secretary, Mr Miliband warned that the EU – and Britain – risks becoming marginalised by a Chinese-American "G2" elite unless its 27 members dropped their differences to develop a vigorous common international policy. His message contrasts with predecessors' emphasis on the so-called "special relationship" between Britain and the United States. Hours after Mr Miliband set out his vision of a more unified continent punching above its weight around the globe

27 Oct 2009 - - Independent - Britain, Europe and a history of lamentable mis-timing

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:54:17 GMT

How far this reassessment of Britain's relations with the outside world was reflected in the front ranks of government, as opposed to the corridors of power, was nonetheless hard to gauge. Until yesterday, that is, when the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, gave one of the most Europhile – and least Atlanticist – speeches ever delivered to a British audience by any minister since Labour took office 12 years ago. Setting the scene for Britain to enact its foreign policy primarily through the EU, Mr Milib

27 Oct 2009 - - Independent - Europe is a tempting opportunity

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:05:04 GMT

David Miliband has come to life. During his speech to Labour's conference last month he made a bold defence of the European Union and launched an uncharacteristically passionate onslaught against the Conservatives and their new allies in Europe. Yesterday he became even more vivacious on both fronts, articulating as powerfully as any Labour minister since 1997 the case for Europe and the dangers of the Conservatives' outdated isolationism. Occasionally Tony Blair delivered similar speeches, but only when he

27 Oct 2009 - - Times - Cameron will have to ditch European rightwingers, Heseltine predicts

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:05:57 GMT

David Miliband sought to capitalise on fresh tension among the Conservatives over Europe by declaring that any government pursuing a foreign policy “lost in hubris, nostalgia or xenophobia” would have to “watch our influence in the world wane”. The Foreign Secretary said that Tory plans to repatriate powers were based on a deception that “you can hate Europe as it exists today and remain central to European policymaking”.

27 Oct 2009 - - Daily Mail - EU backlash as David Miliband pushes President Boney Blair

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:15:10 GMT

Earlier, Mr Miliband delivered one of the most fiercely pro-European speeches ever to be delivered by a British foreign secretary. Addressing the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, he warned the UK would lose out internationally if it tried to oppose EU foreign policy on the grounds of 'hubris, nostalgia or xenophobia'. He added: 'To be frightened of European foreign policy is blinkered, fatalistic and wrong. Britain should embrace it, shape it and lead European foreign policy.'

27 Oct 2009 - - IISS Press Release - The IISS Announces 6th Regional Security Summit: The Manama Dialogue

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:44:40 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is pleased to announce that the 6th Regional Security Summit: The Manama Dialogue will take place from 11 to 13 December 2009 in Bahrain.

26 Oct 2009 - - Reuters - British foreign minister tries to revive Blair candidacy for EU job

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:36:25 GMT

In a television interview on Sunday, in a speech on Monday and at a briefing with reporters in Luxembourg, Miliband set out his vision for a strong Europe that needs a leader like Blair.

26 Oct 2009 - - BBC News - UK calls for EU muscle

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:37:37 GMT

The second job is the High Representative for Foreign Affairs. This is a kind of EU foreign minister with a diplomatic staff. Today David Miliband called for a more assertive European foreign policy. He said it was in the British interest. To be frightened of a more powerful European voice in the world was "blinkered, fatalistic and wrong". Britain, he said, should embrace it, shape it and lead it. Otherwise, he said, Britain's influence in the world would wane.

26 Oct 2009 - - Politics.co.uk - Miliband presses EU credentials

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:25:41 GMT

In a speech to the International Institute of Strategic Studies on the EU's role as a global actor and the benefits to the UK of a strong foreign policy, Mr Miliband avoided directly referring to Mr Blair but said the presidency offered an opportunity to provide "continuity and consistency" in EU policy.

26 Oct 2009 - - Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Miliband warns EU over global role - backs Blair

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:29:24 GMT

In his speech to the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) earlier, Miliband outlined his vision of a "strong Europe" once the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified by all members. He said the EU faced a stark choice between becoming a major global player or a "paper tiger" preoccupied with bureaucracy. "The choice for Europe is simple - get our act together and make the European Union a leader on the world stage or become spectators in a G2 world shaped by the US and China," sa

25 Sep 2009 - - Reuters - Obama accuses Iran of building secret nuclear plant

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:34:11 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick, chief nonproliferation analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said it had long been suspected Iran was doing enrichment work at another site. "I think Iran disclosed it because they knew it would soon be made public by the United States," he told Reuters.

25 Sep 2009 - - CNN - Iran fallout scenarios: 'Political damage' or diplomatic gains?

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:40:35 GMT

Ben Rhode, research analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, thinks the Iranians were trying to pre-empt an announcement that was going to prompt stiff "repercussions." He said it's not surprising that Iran held back from providing information to the IAEA, but he wondered what they had to gain from their secrecy, since they argue that their nuclear aspirations are strictly for energy and not military purposes.

25 Sep 2009 - - Radio Free Europe - Iran Threatened With More Sanctions After Revealing Second Enrichment Plant

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:53:34 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick, a nuclear nonproliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, explains that Iran is obliged under its nuclear safeguards agreement to report to the IAEA the planning of facilities like the uranium enrichment plant.

25 Sep 2009 - - Reuters - Iran Says Building Second Enrichment Plant

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:05:19 GMT

"It had long been suspected that Iran was conducting enrichment work somewhere else. I think Iran disclosed it because they knew it would soon be made public by the United States," said Mark Fitzpatrick, chief non-proliferation analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

25 Sep 2009 - - United Press International - Dissidents claim evidence of Iran's nukes

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:14:02 GMT

Nevertheless, Mark Fitzpatrick, a nuclear non-proliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, tells RFE/RL the claims go a long way to support many of the suspicions of Washington and its allies. "They (Iran) have been reporting to the IAEA and allowing access, somewhat fettered, to their main enrichment plant," Fitzpatrick continues. "But there has been a lot of interest and concern about what else they may be up to."

25 Sep 2009 - - Guardian - Iran's second nuclear plant 'a vindication for Israel'

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:11:20 GMT

"There will be a lot of worried phone calls from Arab to western capitals," said Mamoun Fandy of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. "Arabs will be suspicious rather than pleased: this confirms their fears of a package deal being done in which they are the package."

24 Sep 2009 - - Orange County Register - Obama a cheerleader for government action

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:05:58 GMT

The president may have been reflecting a report last week from the widely respected London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, which argued that, after Iraq, Afghanistan, and the financial collapse, “the U.S. share of ‘global power,’ however measured, is in decline.” Whether that is true or not, or whether the president believes it, he talked as if he were the right person to define what the problems are.

24 Sep 2009 - - New York Times - European Patrols Brace for Rise in Tension Over Report on 2008 War in Georgia

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:08:19 GMT

But Oksana Antonenko, who organized talks between Georgian and South Ossetian officials in 2005, said she doubted that the report would reach a stark conclusion. “People somehow think this report is going to apportion blame,” said Ms. Antonenko, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. “The truth is, this commission really did not have access to the type of intelligence that would have been necessary to indisputably assert something new.”

24 Sep 2009 - - Al Jazeera - Obama to host UN nuclear meeting

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:28:16 GMT

"All but three or four of the nations of the world have committed themselves to not pursuing nuclear weapons by signing the non-proliferation treaty," Mark Fitzpatrick, the director of the non-proliferation programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said.

23 Sep 2009 - - BBC World Service - UK to cut Trident subs

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:53:12 GMT

Interview with Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

23 Sep 2009 - - Financial Times - The nuclear options

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:32:35 GMT

"My personal view is that it will be impossible to find a solution that does not involve some degree of enrichment on Iranian soil," says Mark Fitzpatrick from the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. In return, he says, Tehran would have to accept a more intrusive inspections regime by the IAEA.

22 Sep 2009 - - Vatican Radio - Iran Makes New Model of Nuclear Centrifuges

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:02:01 GMT

Interview with Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

21 Sep 2009 - - The News International - The lecture circuit

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:52:25 GMT

Currently we have one ex-president working the lucrative lecture circuit in the US, whilst the incumbent president is doing the rounds of a less lucrative but perhaps more important set of venues. His latest foray into public speaking was at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, where it is reported that his prepared and scripted speech went well but that the question and answer session was a little less than informative. Much has been made in recent days of the fact that our president

21 Sep 2009 - - Time - Afghanistan: Looking for the way ahead

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:20:30 GMT

The election has “raised a question in people's minds,” says Colonel Christopher Langton, senior fellow for Conflict and Defense Diplomacy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. “Why should we be supporting such an individual and helping him to re-establish authority -- using British lives -- if he is so corrupt?”

21 Sep 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - EU: European army no closer as member states put own interests first

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:27:13 GMT

"The fundamental problem is that all this talk of European security and defence planning is a misnomer," explained Bastian Giegerich, research fellow for European security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. "It is not a defence policy – it is all about crisis management. Whenever there is a crisis everybody looks after their own national interests.

21 Sep 2009 - - Reuters - Europe to resist larger Afghan troops commitment.

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:32:27 GMT

"If it's more troops for combat, then there's not going to be much willingness," said Colonel Christopher Langton of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

20 Sep 2009 - - Times of India - Which way is Islamabad tipping?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:18:42 GMT

By Sir Hilary Synnott, Consulting Senior Fellow

20 Sep 2009 - - Sunday Telegraph - Barack Obama changes American missile plans in Europe, causing fear among allies

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:49:10 GMT

Mr Obama calls this as an "era of engagement" while his neoconservative critics dismiss the strategy as dangerously naïve appeasement. John Chipman, head of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London think-tank, characterises the new Obama approach as "No we can't" go-it-alone any longer - a reference to his campaign slogan last year, "Yes we can".

20 Sep 2009 - - Daily News and Analysis - A small step

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:45:20 GMT

Pakistan's obligation to deal with Saeed and other terrorists remains. Pakistan leaders cannot hope to establish their anti-terror credentials by loud protestations. Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari has spoken on the issue on predictable lines in London on Friday -- and ironically 33 people were killed in a bomb attack in the northwest of Pakistan the same day -- but it would not mean much if no credible action follows. Action against Saeed is one way that Pakistan can prove its sincerity to India.

20 Sep 2009 - - Associated Press of Pakistan - War against terrorism to get boost if India joins FoDP

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:06:12 GMT

Chidamabaram expressed satisfaction at the development in filing FIR against Hafiz Saeed and for him even a half step is a right step in this direction. He concluded that it was too early to comment and asked Indians to wait and watch how Pak proceeds in the matter. Whether they would interrogate him or investigate his role and that of others, would be tested in the days to come. President Zardari has earlier said in London that Pak would act certainly act against all those who were responsible for attack o

20 Sep 2009 - - Sunday Express - Iran Nuclear 'Nightmare' Months Away

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:10:08 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the West had entered a “new ball-game” and a “newly dangerous phase” with Tehran, because the regime now had enough low-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon and by February next year would have acquired enough material for two weapons.

19 Sep 2009 - - Indo- Asian News Service - Zardari cites past 'mistakes' for militants' rise

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:55:56 GMT

In a speech delivered to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, Zardari said he was determined to overcome the 'great challenges' currently faced by the leadership in Pakistan.

19 Sep 2009 - - Independent - Stop passing the buck on terror, Pakistan tells UK

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:49:32 GMT

His words amplified the message contained in a speech by President Zardari yesterday. Addressing the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, he reaffirmed his determination not to allow Pakistan to be used as a launch pad for attacks by Islamist terrorists, and called for more counter-terrorism aid from the West. Pakistan wants the US to arm it with unmanned drones and helicopters. "Let me assure you we have not come this far, at this price, to fail," he said.

19 Sep 2009 - - Independent - Progress in Pakistan

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:18:14 GMT

As if to counterpoint the Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari's plea in London yesterday for help in the fight against terror, a suicide bomber detonated an explosion that killed 33 and injured dozens of others near the garrison town of Kohat in the north-west of the country.

19 Sep 2009 - - Asian News International - Action against 26/11 perpetrators focus of talks with Pak in New York: India

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:29:25 GMT

Zardari while addressing a gathering at International Institute of Strategic Studies in London called for greater dialogue with India to increase regional security. He expressed a willingness to revive a dialogue with India ruptured by last November's assault by Pakistan-based militants on Mumbai.

19 Sep 2009 - - India Today - Window on Pak Press: Try Musharraf & get tried too

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:47:56 GMT

On the other hand President Asif Ali Zardari while delivering a keynote lecture at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) in London on 'Pakistan: strategic challenges and opportunities' on Friday warned that Pakistan's failure in the war against terrorism would have dire repercussions for the world, adding: "It would not be the failure of one country, but the entire freedom-loving world."

19 Sep 2009 - - Indo-Asian News Service - Zardari wants India in Friends of Democratic Pakistan group

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:26:25 GMT

“We want India to be the part of Friends of Democratic Pakistan and will encourage any Indian investment in this regard,” Zardari said while speaking Thursday at the think tank International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), the Nation newspaper reported on its site.

19 Sep 2009 - - Press Trust of India - Pak to prosecute people with ''aggressive'' minds: Zardari

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:31:35 GMT

President Asif Ali Zardari has said Pakistan was determined to prosecute anybody “who is inclined towards aggressive mindset” in the wake of mounting international pressure to take action against Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

19 Sep 2009 - - Newsblaze - Chidambaram's Quiet Diplomacy Paid Off Pak Finally Acts Against Hafiz Saeed

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:26:55 GMT

18 Sep 2009 - - BBC News - Missile shift 'defends Iran's neighbours'

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:50:00 GMT

By Michael Elleman, Visting Senior Fellow for Missile Defence

18 Sep 2009 - - The News International - Baitullah Mehsud mindset responsible for Benazir’s killing: Zardari

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:45:05 GMT

The President made this comment in his wide ranging address and discourse with British intelligentsia gathered at London’s International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) - a prestigious and one of the high profile Think Tanks, a day after he arrived in the British capital from Dubai.

18 Sep 2008 - Associated Press of Pakistan - Militants, extremists created deliberately: President Zardari

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:47:14 GMT

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the extremists and militants were created decades ago by a deliberate policy to employ religious fanaticism for the achievement of certain strategic objectives. The President made this comment in his wide ranging address and discourse with British intelligentsia gathered at London’s International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) - a prestigious and one of the high profile Think Tanks, a day after he arrived in the British capital from Dubai.

18 Sep 2008 - Deutsche Presse Agentur - Pakistan's Zardari cites ''mistakes'' of the past for militants' rise

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:56:38 GMT

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday urged the international community to support his government's efforts to make democracy in his home country 'sustainable and irreversible.' In a speech delivered to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, Zardari said he was determined to overcome the 'great challenges' currently faced by the leadership in Pakistan.

18 Sep 2008 - Agence France Presse - Pakistan trying to stop terror plotters: Zardari

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:03:35 GMT

Zardari took issue with the accusation that many of the terror plots unleashed against the world originated in Pakistan, but acknowledged that many ‘passed through’ his country. ‘We are determined not to allow anyone to use our territory against a third country,’ he said in an address at the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

18 Sep 2008 - - Indian Express - Pak to prosecute people with 'aggresive' minds: Zardari

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:12:30 GMT

President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said Pakistan was determined to prosecute anybody "who is inclined towards aggressive mindset" in the wake of mounting international pressure to take action against Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

18 Sep 2009 - - Times Now- Zardari promises action against Saeed

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:10:01 GMT

Under pressure from the US, Pakistan today finally registered two FIRs against the alleged mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack - Hafiz Saeed and promised action against Saeed. "We'll take action against Hafiz Saeed," Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said in response to a question from TIMES NOW's Sr Editor Srinjoy Choudhury on the FIRs against Saeed.

18 Sep 2009 - - politics.co.uk - Protestors blight Zardari visit

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:12:48 GMT

Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari's first major policy international speech has been overshadowed by protests against his leadership in London.

18 Sep 2009 - - Bloomberg - Pakistan Needs Better Access to Western Markets, Zardari Says

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:59:53 GMT

“We need trade not aid,” said Zardari, 53, in a speech in London today to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a consultant on defense which advises Western governments. “We need to create economic opportunity to the teeming millions.”

18 Sep 2009 - - Times - Revised shield offers better protection for US from Iranian missiles, experts say

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:34:22 GMT

The revised shield, President Obama said, would deal with the changing nature of Iran’s missile programme.“If the reason is to protect against the Iranian threat, this move absolutely makes sense,” said Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It would also, he noted, be less expensive.

18 Sep 2009 - - Reuters - Russia-NATO joint missile defense seen years away

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:44:35 GMT

Michael Elleman, a U.S.-based visiting senior fellow for missile defense at Britain's International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), said work on missile cooperation would likely focus on early warning radar information exchange. "If you want to go beyond that, it gets really tricky," Elleman said. "I'm skeptical, but I remain open-minded."

18 Sep 2009 - - McClatchy Newspapers - Pakistan balks at pursuing anti-U.S. extremist groups

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:57:22 GMT

Experts on the Afghanistan war think that military progress and political stability won't be possible there unless the government roots out the havens the insurgents have established in western Pakistan. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based research center, concluded in its annual review this week that "Pakistan remained the biggest source of instability for Afghanistan."

18 Sep 2009 - - United Press International - Uruguay wants stronger, balanced Mercosur for Latin cohesion

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:41:46 GMT

The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said last week the Obama administration could capitalize on new signs of pragmatism among Latin American governments of different political shades after the "lost years" of the Bush presidency.

18 Sep 2009 - - Xinhua - Scrapping Missile Shield Sweeps Obstacles to Resetting Russian-US Ties

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:49:25 GMT

Antonenko said the strategic debate had already shifted to installing systems closer to Iran. "Israel, or possibly Turkey ... There are areas where missile systems with existing capabilities would make more sense," she said.

18 Sep 2009 - - Stars and Stripes - U.S. scraps Bush-era plans for Iron Curtain missile defense

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:12:08 GMT

The initiative “was clearly counterproductive” in getting Russia to help pressure Iran over its nuclear ambitions, according to Dr. Dana Allin, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy and transatlantic affairs at London’s International Institute for Strategic Studies.

18 Sep 2009 - - Times - Pakistan needs better schools to beat extremism, says President

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:02:16 GMT

President Zardari, speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, added that Benazir Bhutto, his late wife and twice prime minister, who was assassinated nearly two years ago as she campaigned for election, “would have done all this much better”.

HE President Asif Ali Zardari Address

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:16:23 GMT

On Friday 18 September 2009 H.E. President Asif Ali Zardari, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan deliveredd a Special Address on “Pakistan: Strategic Challenges & Opportunities”.

17 Sep 2009 - - Washington Post - A New Deal for The CIA

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:41:27 GMT

The question is how to put the pieces back together -- how to restore public trust in intelligence. I heard powerful presentations on that subject last Saturday in Geneva by Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA director, and Sir David Omand, former coordinator of British intelligence. They were speaking at a meeting of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

17 Sep 2009 - - Evening Standard - Sending more troops to Afghanistan won't beat Taliban, say US experts

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:42:42 GMT

"Counter-insurgency in Afghanistan would probably fail," they warn in the article to be published in Survival, the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. They say such an operation would need a reliable national government.

17 Sep 2009 - - Jane's Defence Weekly - Coalition seeks accelerated Afghan training schedule

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:28:13 GMT

The ANA is currently timetabled to number 134,000 by the end of 2011. However, in early September UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, said that he wanted the deadline to be brought forward to November 2010 and for the number of cadets graduating each month to be doubled from 2,000 to 4,000.

13 Aug 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Myanmar antics pose new headache for frustrated neighbours

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:31:35 GMT

"The verdict is an embarrassment for ASEAN because it has been grappling with the issue of human rights and trying to establish acceptable norms among members," said Tim Huxley from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. "If political confrontation was taken to its logical conclusion, Burma could be suspended or expelled but frankly that's not going to happen," he said.

13 Aug 2009 - - Wall St Journal - BAE's Global 'Homes' Weather Defense Cuts

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:08:29 GMT

Britain is squeezing defense spending amid economic woes and increasingly expensive operations in Afghanistan. "In the U.K. now, defense is perceived as being a bit of a waste of money," says Andrew Brookes, an aerospace analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank in London.

12 Aug 2009 - - IISS News Advisory - IISS Announces 7th Global Strategic Review: The New Geopolitics

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:12:59 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is pleased to announce that the 7th Global Strategic Review (GSR) will take place from 11-13 September 2009 at the Intercontinental Hotel Geneva in Switzerland.

09 Aug 2009 - - El Mercurio de Valparaíso - Chile debe tener más liderazgo en la seguridad regional

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:44:03 GMT

Interview with Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS

07 Aug 2009 - Xinhua News - Estabilidad en AL es prioridad para Chile

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:50:32 GMT

El seminario contó la participación de John Chipman, director de International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) de Londres, y expertos chilenos y extranjeros. El seminario contó la participación de John Chipman, director de International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) de Londres, y expertos chilenos y extranjeros. El evento, que comenzó el lunes y termina mañana, miércoles, en Santiago, cuenta con la participación de expertos chilenos y extranjeros. El seminario es organizado por

06 Aug 2009 - - Associated Press - Chavez: Venezuela to buy more tanks over US threat

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:45:35 GMT

Venezuela's arms spending has generated concern in Bogota for years. Chavez's military already has nearly 200 tanks, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, while Colombia has no tank units.

06 Aug 2009 - - La Segunda - Transparencia de la capacidad militar y confianzas

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:56:37 GMT

El seminario «América Latina en la perspectiva estratégica», organizado por el Ejército de Chile con la participación del Instituto Internacional para Estudios Estratégicos, de Londres (IISS), y del Centro de Estudios Internacionales de la UC, incluyó un interesante panel que recogió la creciente preocupación por el gasto y las capacidades militares en la región y sus implicancias.

05 Aug 2009 - - Cooperativa - Lagos respaldó reacción de Cancillería y rechazó dichos de Evo Morales

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:06:14 GMT

Por su parte, el abanderado de la Concertación, Eduardo Frei, también apuntó a que nadie debe que meterse en temas internos de Chile, tras participar, junto a Lagos, en el seminario internacional "América Latina en la Perspectiva Estratégica", organizado por el Ejército.

05 Aug 2009 - - ORBE - Ministro Vidal: “Sin paz no es posible alcanzar la justicia social”

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:04:57 GMT

La iniciativa, que contó con la participación del Instituto Internacional de Estudios Estratégicos de Londres (IISS), fue inaugurado el pasado lunes por la Presidenta de la República, Michelle Bachelet, y contó con la asistencia de expertos chilenos y extranjeros, entre ellos el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Mariano Fernández; el director del IISS, doctor John Chipman; Vittorio Corbo, Gabriel Gaspar, Juan Emilio Cheyre, el senador Eduardo Frei y el ex presidente Ricardo Lagos, entre otros.

05 Aug 2009 - - La Tercera - Frei critica proyecto bolivariano de Chávez y advierte sobre riesgo de conflicto regional

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:22:46 GMT

proyecto bolivariano” del Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez, realizó hoy el candidato presidencial de la Concertación, Eduardo Frei. En su intervención en el seminario “América Latina en la Perspectiva Estratégica”, organizado por el Ejército, el abanderado oficialista advirtió sobre los riesgos de conflictos diplomáticos, e incluso armados, que implica el estilo Chávez al intervenir en asuntos de otros Estados en la región.

05 Aug 2009 - EFE - Lagos dice que el uso político de los recursos naturales amenaza la seguridad

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:26:51 GMT

En la actualidad, los recursos naturales se han convertido en una herramienta de presión política y eso puede provocar situaciones de conflicto, aseguró Lagos al intervenir en Santiago en el seminario internacional "América Latina en la perspectiva estratégica", organizado por el Ejército de Chile.

05 Aug 2009 - El Mercurio - Canciller y comandante en jefe del Ejército critican populismos en la región

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:06:55 GMT

A sólo seis días de que la Presidenta Bachelet viaje a Ecuador para participar en la cita de Unasur -donde se encontrará con los Mandatarios de la región- el canciller Mariano Fernández expresó fuertes críticas a la "debilidad democrática" de algunos países de América Latina. Al exponer ayer en el seminario "América Latina en la Perspectiva Estratégica", organizado por el Ejército, el ministro criticó indirectamente a Hugo Chávez al decir que la situación descrita "hace emerger liderazgos mesiánicos" y para

04 Aug 2009 - EFE - Retroceso de democracia frena integración de A.Latina, dice canciller chileno

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:08:18 GMT

Los conceptos los formuló al intervenir en el seminario "América Latina en la perspectiva estratégica", que fue inaugurado la noche del lunes con una cena a la que asistió la presidenta chilena, Michelle Bachelet. El encuentro, que se celebra hasta este miércoles en Santiago, fue organizado por el Ejército chileno y cuenta con la participación del International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

04 Aug 2009 - EFE - Brasil deve liderar segurança na A.Latina, diz especialista

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:09:35 GMT

Brasil e Chile devem liderar uma agenda de segurança regional para a América Latina através do Conselho Sul-americano de Defesa, órgão criado pela União de Nações Sul-americanas (Unasul), disse hoje o diretor do Instituto Internacional para Estudos Estratégicos (IISS), John Chipman

04 Aug 2009 - - La Segunda - Canciller Fernández: Retroceso de la democracia frena integración de América Latina

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:11:32 GMT

El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, Mariano Fernández, alertó hoy sobre el debilitamiento de los partidos políticos, que lleva al retroceso de la democracia en América Latina y pone freno a la integración regional. "Después de veinte años de expansión democrática se vislumbra un proceso de debilitamiento institucional o de incapacidad para consolidar las instituciones,” sostuvo el canciller de Chile, país que ostenta la presidencia temporal de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (Unasur).

04 Aug 2009 - BBC News - MoD denies Merlin 'unsafe' claims

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:45:27 GMT

Independent aerospace analyst Andrew Brookes, from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said he could find no evidence of pilots or commanding officers expressing concern. "These helicopters are the same that have been flying in Iraq for some years - perfectly successfully, perfectly securely - in operational conditions." "For all of North Korea's neighbors," he wrote in a newly published report, "the collapse of the Kim regime could be best way out of a downward cycle - and the so

IISS Newsletter July 2009

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:52:12 GMT

View the Summer 2009 IISS Newsletter

04 Aug 2009 - ANSA - Unasur-Seguridad: ''Amenazas son Trasnacionales'', Chipman

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:42:58 GMT

John Chipman, director del Instituto Internacional para Estudios Estratégicos (IISS), con sede en Londres, afirmó hoy que "casi todas las amenazas a la seguridad en América Latina son trasnacionales".

04 Aug 2009 - EFE - Brasil y Chile deben liderar agenda de seguridad en Unasur, dice experto

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:44:55 GMT

Brasil y Chile deben liderar una agenda de seguridad regional para América Latina a través del Consejo Suramericano de Defensa creado por la Unasur, dijo hoy el director del Instituto Internacional de Estudios Estratégicos (IISS), John Chipman.

04 Aug 2009 - Xinhua News - Analizan perspectiva estratégica de AL en Chile

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:46:07 GMT

El seminario "América Latina en la Perspectiva Estratégica" fue inaugurado en Chile con el objetivo de analizar los temas vinculados a la política, la seguridad, la cooperación y la defensa en la región. El evento, que comenzó el lunes y termina mañana, miércoles, en Santiago, cuenta con la participación de expertos chilenos y extranjeros. El seminario es organizado por el Ejército chileno con la participación del International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

02 Aug 2009 - - El Mercurio - ''Chávez ha mejorado su cooperación con EE.UU. desde que llegó Obama''

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:42:09 GMT

Interview with Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS

02 August 2009 - - Sunday Times - Britain to send 2,000 extra troops to help train Afghans

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:08:02 GMT

Last week Dannatt, in his final speech in the job, told the International Institute for Strategic Studies that “success in Afghanistan is not discretionary and we must do whatever is necessary to succeed. If this means an uplift in Afghanspecific capabilities, so be it”.

01 Aug 2009 - Asia Times - Pyongyang purges for a new era

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:40:27 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for non-proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, sees whatever is happening in North Korea as "surely connected with the succession question that suddenly became more acute" after Kim's stroke. "For all of North Korea's neighbors," he wrote in a newly published report, "the collapse of the Kim regime could be best way out of a downward cycle - and the sooner this happens, the better."

01 Aug 2009 - Sydney Morning Herald - Burma's nuclear secrets

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:37:26 GMT

To add to the confusion, there are doubts over the existence of the Russian reactor. "I'm sure the Russian reactor has not been built already," says Mark Fitzpatrick, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a Burma watcher over most of the past decade. He will soon have a book published on nuclear plans across South-East Asia. "For all of North Korea's neighbors," he wrote in a newly published report, "the collapse of the Kim regime could be best way out of a downward cyc

31 Jul 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - General Dannatt is right – Justice for wounded: we failed Armed Forces, Defence Secretary Bob

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:37:09 GMT

His comments came as Gen Sir Richard Dannatt, the retiring Army chief, gave warning that the defence budget was “under huge pressure”. In his last speech as Chief of the General Staff, Sir Richard accused ministers of short-term thinking on defence.

31 Jul 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - General Dannatt is right – Britain is at war

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:38:55 GMT

There is much to commend in General Sir Richard Dannatt’s address on Thursday to The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), his last speech before stepping down as Chief of the General Staff of the British Army. General Dannatt, who has been an outspoken critic of defence cuts and the Labour government’s chronic underfunding of overseas military operations, delivered one of the most important speeches on British strategic thinking in the post 9/11 era.

31 Jul 2009 - - VOA News - Offensive against Taliban in Full Swing in Afghanistan's South

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:27:30 GMT

Christopher Langton served in the British Army for 32 years. He is now an analyst with the International Institute of Strategic Studies and says opium is complicating Britain's mission in Afghanistan. "Poppy produces finance for the insurgency, as well as for corrupt government officials, of course, and others in Afghanistan," Langton says. "And, ultimately it produces heroin on the streets of Britain. So it's always in peoples' minds. The question is what do you do about it?"

31 Jul 2009 - - Times - Britain needs 'war-like footing' to win, says general

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:40:41 GMT

We should be under no illusion, we are at war and if we want to succeed, which we must, we must get on to a war-like footing," General Sir Richard Dannatt, the Chief of the General Staff, said. "Not everyone in our nation realises that." Making his last public speech before he retires next month, General Dannatt said: "If that means an uplift of significant capabilities for Afghanistan, then so be it."

31 Jul 2009 - - Guardian - Ministers must assume war footing to defeat Taliban - army chief

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:22:03 GMT

General Sir Richard Dannatt, chief of the general staff, called yesterday for the government to be put on a "war-like footing" over Afghanistan. Success in the battle against the Taliban was "not discretionary", he said.

31 Jul 2009 - - Times - Ainsworth: we failed troops in Afghanistan and Iraq

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:26:33 GMT

The general, who has fought the Government for more resources in Afghanistan, pressed his case for the campaign to be adequately funded. Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, he said: “Success in Afghanistan is not discretionary. It will top the agenda for the future and we must do whatever we must do to succeed.

31 Jul 2009 - - Independent - Soaring casualty list forces Army to call on US medics

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:42:02 GMT

General Sir Richard Dannatt, the outgoing head of the Army, called on the whole of Government to be put on a "war-like footing" to deliver support for troops and security for Afghanistan. He said: "We should be under no illusion. We are at war and if we want to succeed, which we must, we must get on to a war-like footing. "Afghanistan is truly war among the people, about the people and for the people. We are succeeding in spite of the tragic losses that we have suffered. Our people have much to be proud

31 Jul 2009 - - Scotsman - 'Disclose full horror of our boys' injuries'

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:50:13 GMT

Gen Dannatt told the International Institute for Strategic Studies the review needed to be based on the future role the UK envisages playing on the global stage. He said: "We believe the result will be a force relevant to the evident and demanding challenges of the near term but with sufficient provision for the uncertainties of the long term. "Afghanistan is truly war among the people, about the people and for the people. We are succeeding in spite of the tragic losses that we have suffered. Our pe

31 Jul 2009 - - Guardian - British army surgeons call in US help as casualties rise

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:02:10 GMT

The figures were published as General Sir Richard Dannatt, the outgoing head of the army, warned that all of government had to be put on a "war-like footing" and that success in Afghanistan was "not discretionary". In a parting shot before retiring next month, he warned: "We must do whatever is necessary to succeed." He told the International Institute for Strategic Studies: "This must be demonstrated by a strengthened and enduring national, political, industrial, cross-Whitehall and departmental commitm

31 Jul 2009 - - Associated Press of Pakistan - British General speaks on Britain’s future Defence strategy

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:56:34 GMT

Top British general has called for a review of his country’s defence strategy including equipment procurement for the next decade during which he said Afghanistan and the tribal belt along Pakistan’s western border will remain a significant challenge. Delivering his last public speech at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Thursday before his retirement next month, General Sir Richard Dannat, Chief of the UK’s Army General Staff, speaking on the topic of ‘The Challenge for Defence in th

31 Jul 2009 - - Daily Mail - Our bloodiest month in war on the Taliban

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:08:39 GMT

The mounting death toll in Afghanistan could destroy public support for the war and lead to 'strategic disaster', the outgoing head of the Army has warned. General Sir Richard Dannatt, who yesterday gave his final public speech before retiring, called for urgent investment in surveillance systems to pinpoint Taliban booby-traps.

31 Jul 2009 - - Daily Express - Military Doctors Call in US Help as Casualties Soar

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:15:59 GMT

In one week alone, 157 wounded people were brought to Camp Bastion for treatment, including British, American and Estonian troops, as well as Afghan soldiers and civilians, and even enemy forces. Outgoing Army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt insisted yesterday that the military campaign was succeeding despite the casualties. But in his last public speech before retiring next month, the Chief of the General Staff said ultimate success would depend on cross-Whitehall commitment from the Government includ

31 Jul 2009 - - Daily Mirror - The Toll of Honour

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:38:55 GMT

"Very serious" means injuries were life-threatening. But Army chief Gen Sir Richard Dannatt insisted: "We are succeeding in spite of the tragic losses that we have suffered." But in his last public speech before retiring next month, the Chief of the General Staff said ultimate success would depend on cross-Whitehall commitment from the Government includ

30 Jul 2009 - - Reuters - Britain can't afford to lose in Afghanistan - general

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:34:10 GMT

General Richard Dannatt, who steps down as army chief next month after three years in the post, described Afghanistan as a complex and difficult war that the nation was only just beginning to acknowledge, and which it could not afford to lose. "We must ensure that we succeed in the current campaign. Success in Afghanistan is not discretionary and will set the agenda for the future," he told defence experts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

30 Jul 2009 - - Bloomberg - British Casualty Rate in Afghanistan Is Highest Ever

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:54:45 GMT

British army chief Richard Dannatt said the battle to beat the Taliban, the radical Islamist movement ousted by U.S.-led forces after the Sept. 11 attacks, is working. “We are succeeding in spite of the tragic losses that we have suffered,” Dannatt told an audience of academics in London today in his last public speech before he retires. But in his last public speech before retiring next month, the Chief of the General Staff said ultimate success would depend on cross-Whitehall commitment from t

30 Jul 2009 - - Reuters - Taliban threaten Afghan poll, deadly month nears end

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:07:58 GMT

"We must ensure that we succeed in the current campaign. Success in Afghanistan is not discretionary and will set the agenda for the future," British army chief General Richard Dannatt told London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.

30 Jul 2009 - - The National - Debates push boundaries in Doha

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:28:00 GMT

Mamoun Fandy, the director of the Middle East programme at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, was invited to participate in two debates but was refused entry to the country by Qatari authorities on both occasions. “The myth that the whole thing has free editorial control is just that – a myth,” Mr Fandy said.

General Sir Richard Dannatt Address

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:11:35 GMT

On 30th July, General Sir Richard Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff spoke on “The Challenge for Defence in the Next Decade”.

29 July 2009 - - United Press International - Latin America arms race looms amid rising tensions

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:57:46 GMT

Military analysts said recent purchases would likely revise last year's estimates of defense spending in Latin America and the Caribbean, which grew by 91 percent from 2003-08. London's International Institute for Strategic Studies said defense spending in the region during the 2003-08 period rose from $4.7 billion to $47.2 billion.

Survival Volume 51, No 4

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:44:12 GMT

Volume 51, Number 4 of Survival, the Institute's bi-monthly journal, has been published.

28 Jul 2009 - - Guardian - David Miliband: give the Taliban fighters alternatives

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:12:11 GMT

Christopher Langton, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said there was tension between the Afghan approach, which was to seek to reintegrate insurgents individually, and western troop contributors like Britain, who would rather deal with whole groups.

01 June 2009 - - Daily Times - Swat operation to end in 2-3 days

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:50:08 GMT

Speaking at a security summit in Singapore and talking to Reuters later for an interview, Ali said the military operation in Swat had “met almost complete success”, with only 5 percent to 10 percent of the job remaining. Resistance: “Hopefully within the next two to three days these pockets of resistance will be cleared,” Ali told the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual meeting of defence ministers, officials and experts.

01 June 2009 - - Indian Express - Can Antony boost India's defence diplomacy?

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:16:10 GMT

External Affairs Minister S M Krishna's categorisation of India as a 'responsible power' has found an echo in the just-concluded Shangri La dialogue - the impressive annual conclave on Asian security at Singapore run by the London-headquartered International Institute of Strategic Studies.

01 June 2009 - - Financial Times - NK moves missile towards launch site

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:33:45 GMT

US officials attending the Shangri-La defence forum in Singapore at the weekend said Washington had new ideas for dealing with North Korea, but declined to provide details. The US is also pushing the United Nations Security Council to impose tough new sanctions on Pyongyang.

01 June 2009 - - Sydney Morning Herald - Regional forum gains ground

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:40:45 GMT

The Indonesian Minister of Defence, Juwono Sudarsono, said he supported a broad dialogue that would encompass most of Asia and extend beyond security and defence discussions to include business and education. 'The security dimension is as important to business as business is to security," he told the Shangri-La Dialogue meeting in Singapore.

01 June 2009 - - The Hindu - India an important partner, says Rohitha Bogollagama

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:46:55 GMT

Addressing the Asian Security Summit, held here under the auspices of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mr. Bogollagama said Sri Lanka’s triumph over the LTTE would be “a classic textbook example” of an anti-terror campaign in a democratic society. With the LTTE’s international network remaining “largely intact” even after this, he called for a global crackdown on such remnants. 'The security dimension is as important to business as business is to security," he told the Shan

01 June 2009 - - Straits Times - Transparency in security

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:00:31 GMT

Speaking on the last day of the security forum, DPM Teo noted that such practices have helped foster a culture of dialogue and cooperation in the region as well as the acceptance of international mechanisms to resolve disputes peacefully.

01 June 2009 - - Washington Times - N. Korea could duck sanctions

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:04:01 GMT

Mr. Cohen is among current and former officials from 28 countries attending the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual conference organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He said the most important aspect of the Security Council's response to the May 25 test should be a "unified approach," even if China and Russia are reluctant to go as far as the other council members in terms of tough sanctions.

01 June 2009 - - Sydney Morning Herald - N Korea reported preparing missile

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:13:27 GMT

At a regional defence meeting in Singapore, the US Secretary of Defence, Robert Gates, said on Saturday that Washington and many of North Korea's neighbours are getting fed up. "We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia - or on us," he said.

01 June 2009 - - The Hindu - Pakistan too seeks role in Afghanistan

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:24:13 GMT

Pakistan on Sunday offered to play a constructive role in Afghanistan. The international community should “allow” Islamabad to do so, said Pakistan’s Defence Secretary Syed Athar Ali at the Asian Security Summit here. Speaking at a plenary session, under the auspices of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Lt. Gen. (Retired) Ali said: “I think India is making good progress in Afghanistan; and they are helping rebuild Afghanistan. 'The security dimension is as important to busi

01 June 2009 - - The Irrawaddy - Burma Locked Out of Region’s Prosperity, Says Gates

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:57:54 GMT

Burma is “one of the isolated, desolate exceptions to the growing prosperity and freedom of the region,” according to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Gates made his comment at a security conference in Singapore, where Burma’s deputy defense minister, Maj-Gen Aye Myint, tried to deflect criticism of his government and its latest action against opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

01 June 2009 - - ABS-CBN News - Analysis: Defense heads push for transparency

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:04:17 GMT

Transparency among generals? That seems unlikely as the armed forces are among the most secretive public institutions. But that’s exactly what some of them, led by Singapore’s defense minister, Teo Chee Hean, openly advocated—and in a place where transparency is not a buzz word. Surprises like this do happen at The Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual summit on Asian security.

01 June 2009 - - ABS-CBN News - Gates: US support for anti-terror fight to continue

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:07:51 GMT

In a speech last Saturday at a security forum in Singapore on America's security role in the Asia-Pacific region, Gates said US ties with the Philippines have deepened with bilateral cooperation on various fronts. "Our alliance with the Philippines has deepened as we tackle challenges ranging from terrorism to disaster relief to defense reform," he said at the 8th International Institute for Strategic Studies Asian Security Summit.

01 June 2009 - - Reuters - Allies consider how to punish North Korea

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:11:00 GMT

THE US and its Asian allies could consider tougher responses if diplomacy failed to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear programme, officials said at a security conference at the weekend. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates told his counterparts from South Korea and Japan on Saturday that while diplomacy was preferred, other steps may be considered

01 June 2009 - - Philippines Daily Inquirer - US ‘no position’ on Spratlys row—Gates

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:17:35 GMT

A media advisory from the Department of National Defense said Gates had just attended the Shangri-La Dialogue, an international forum of defense and military officials in Singapore.

01 June 2009 - - VOV News - Vietnam joins regional security summit in Singapore

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:21:28 GMT

A high-ranking Vietnamese military delegation led by Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh attended the 8th unofficial Asia Security Summit, known as the Shangri-la Dialogue, in Singapore from May 29-31

01 June 2009 - - Chosun Ilbo - S.Korea, U.S., Japan to Stand Firm Against N.Korea

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:23:39 GMT

Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee met with his U.S. counterpart Robert Gates and then with both Gates and Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada to discuss the issue in Singapore, where the eighth Asia Security Summit, also known as the Shangri-La Dialogue after the hotel where it takes place, is being held. It is the first time the defense ministers of the three countries met together.

01 June 2009 - - Today (Singapore) - Victory is near’

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:27:52 GMT

Pakistan’s Secretary of Defence Syed Athar Ali told delegates at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that three northwest districts were almost clear of Taliban rebels. .

01 June 2009 - - Today (Singapore) - Myanmar defends trial

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:29:28 GMT

Pakistan’s Secretary of Defence Syed Athar Ali told delegates at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that three northwest districts were almost clear of Taliban rebels.

01 June 2009 - - Today (Singapore) - A new look at military transparency

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:36:42 GMT

Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue yesterday, Mr Teo — who is also Defence Minister — illustrated his point when he said: “North Korea can tell all of us, ‘Yes, I am going to conduct a nuclear test next week. I am going to fire a long-range missile. It is completely transparent,’ ... But does it make you happy, does it make you more secure? Neither.”

01 June 2009 - - New Nation - Trial of war criminals: Documentary support from UK sought

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:53:20 GMT

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has sought documentary support from Britain to make the war crimes trial more transparent. She left for Singapore on Friday to attend a security summit, Shangri-La Dialogue, and met several world leaders including British minister of international defence and security Baroness Ann Taylor Bolton, the foreign ministry said in a press statement on Sunday. She also met US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates who assured her of providing co-operation in defence sector. '

01 June 2009 - - American Forces Press Service - Gates Visits Philippines to Reaffirm U.S. Commitment

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:38:48 GMT

Gates’ trip here was delayed by a day because of mechanical problems with his aircraft after he attended an Asia security summit in Singapore.

01 June 2009 - - Associated Press - Pakistan, Sri Lanka claim victories over terrorism

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:31:02 GMT

Senior officials of the two South Asian nations, speaking at a security summit in Singapore, provided an up-beat assessment of their counterinsurgency operations even though the two wars have spawned two of the region's biggest humanitarian crises.

01 June 2009 - - Straits Times - Transparency in security

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:47:10 GMT

BEING transparent about military armaments will help avoid misunderstandings and increase trust and con-fidence for the Asia-Pacific, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean suggested at the Shangri-La Dialogue yesterday.

01 June 2009 - - Wall St Journal - Gates, Allies Discuss Response to North Korea

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:05:33 GMT

But according to U.S. defense officials who attended the meetings on the sidelines of a major international security conference here, Mr. Gates also told the Asian leaders the U.S. was obligated to begin planning for new defensive measures in case such talks fall through.

01 June 2009 - - Straits Times - Maximising cooperation, minimising differences

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:08:42 GMT

NORTH Korea's nuclear test - and subsequent missile launches - dominated proceedings at the Shangri-La Dialogue. This was particularly so after US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, in his most forceful state-ment yet, stressed that Washington would not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea. Thankfully, other equally pressing issues were not completely overshadowed.

01 June 2009 - - China Daily - China, US militaries thaw ties

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:14:15 GMT

The resumption of the talks follows a meeting between Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army, and US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in Singapore at the weekend. Both were among military officials and experts from nearly 30 countries and regions at the Asia Security Summit, organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

31 May 2009 - - New York Times - Gates Looks to Tougher Approach on North Korea

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:58:49 GMT

Mr. Gates, who warned North Korea in a speech here early Saturday that the United States would not tolerate it becoming a nuclear-armed nation, met throughout the day at the conference, called the Shangri-La Dialogue, with defense officials from China, South Korea, Japan and other Asian nations to begin pulling together a consensus on how to proceed. James B. Steinberg, the deputy secretary of State, attended a number of meetings, as did Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence.

31 May 2009 - - New York Times - Gates Grounded in Singapore

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:59:42 GMT

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was grounded by his own plane on Sunday when the specially fitted 747 he uses for travel broke down because of a series of mechanical problems. Mr. Gates, who was due to travel to Manila on Sunday, instead spent another night in Singapore, where he has been since Friday for a regional security conference.

31 May 2009 - Associated Press - Junta Defends Trial of Opposition Leader Suu Kyi

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:00:19 GMT

The comments marked the first time a top official from the reclusive regime has publicly defended its actions, which have drawn widespread international condemnation, including from its closest neighbors in Southeast Asia. “If offenders are not (prosecuted), anarchy will prevail, and there will be breach of peace and security," Burmese Deputy Defense Minister Maj-Gen Aye Myint told a security conference.

31 May 2009 - - Straits Times - Asia back on priority list

Sun, 31 May 2009 16:18:50 GMT

The coming visits will 'reflect a very strong commitment...it's a real recognition that a critical part of our future is bound up in this region. We are here', said Mr Steinberg. He had accompanied US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates to the Shangri-La Dialogue - the first time two senior US officials had attended the meeting simultaneously.

31 May 2009 - - Straits Times - US pledges to defend allies

Sun, 31 May 2009 16:21:13 GMT

'We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia - or on us,' US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates said yesterday. Speaking to a group of defence ministers, military officers and academics at the Shangri-La Dialogue yesterday, Mr Gates said the US would not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea.

31 May 2009 - - Sunday Times - North Korea planning to launch long range rocket

Sun, 31 May 2009 16:28:27 GMT

An even stronger protest from the UN is expected this week in response to North Korea’s underground test of a nuclear weapon last Monday, followed by a spate of short-range missile tests. On Saturday the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, told an audience in Singapore that the US will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state, although he gave no concrete details of how the Obama administration intended to prevent this.

31 May 2009 - - Straits Times - Beyond counting weapons

Sun, 31 May 2009 16:31:13 GMT

BEING transparent about military armaments will help avoid misunderstandings and increase trust and confidence for the Asia-Pacific, suggested Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean at the Shangri-La Dialogue on Sunday.

31 May 2009 - Observer - Nuclear-armed North Korea is 'not acceptable', warns US

Sun, 31 May 2009 02:18:45 GMT

Washington does not fear a direct attack by North Korea, but is concerned that the country will export its nuclear technology to other rogue states or terrorist networks. The country, crippled by sanctions and its own disastrous economy, has already acquired billions of dollars by secretly exporting missile technology to the Middle East and Pakistan. In his speech in Singapore, Gates warned that America would hold Pyongyang "fully accountable" for the proliferation of any nuclear material or technology. "Th

31 May 2009 - New York Times - Gates Issues Warning to North Korea

Sun, 31 May 2009 02:28:37 GMT

Throughout the day at the annual conference in Singapore, called the Shangri-La Dialogue, Mr. Gates met with defense officials from China, South Korea, Japan and other Asian nations to try to begin pulling together an international consensus on how to proceed. James B. Steinberg, the deputy Secretary of State, attended a number of the meetings, as did Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence

31 May 2009 - - Washington Post - N. Korea Seen Moving Missile to Launchpad

Sun, 31 May 2009 12:32:49 GMT

Gates told defense officials at the meeting that the U.S. government understands and disdains the game of brinkmanship North Korea is playing. "They create a crisis, and the rest of us pay the price to return to the status quo ante," he said. "As the expression goes in the U.S., I'm tired of buying the same horse twice.

31 May 2009 - - Independent on Sunday - North Korea seen preparing to test long-range missile

Sun, 31 May 2009 12:45:39 GMT

China, which ignored the previous sanctions, has been unusually outspoken in its criticism of Monday's blast. "As a close neighbour of North Korea, China has expressed a firm opposition and grave concern about the nuclear test," Lt-Gen Ma Xiaotian said at the Singapore defence meeting. North Korea says it conducted the nuclear test in self-defence. Its main Rodong Sinmun newspaper warned yesterday that it "will deal decisive and merciless blows at the enemies who desperately run amok to dare pre-empt an att

31 May 2009 - - Straits Times - New Asean-centric set-up?

Sun, 31 May 2009 12:57:40 GMT

There is clearly a consensus that Asean has to be at the centre of any new Asia-Pacific security architecture that emerges to grapple with security challenges such as piracy, terrorism and natural disasters. Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, also the Defence Minister, was speaking to reporters after hosting lunch for his defence counterparts yesterday, on the second day of the Shangri-La Dialogue.

31 May 2009 - - Straits Times - N.Korea stumps world

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:01:34 GMT

'North Korea in the past has a track record of external transfers of missile technology to many countries and of nuclear cooperation with at least two - Syria and Libya,' said Mr Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for non-proliferation, at the London-based think-tank, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), which hosts the Shangri-La Dialogue.

31 May 2009 - - Korea Times - US to Reaffirm Nuke Umbrella for S. Korea

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:09:02 GMT

n a meeting with South Korean Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee on the sidelines of an international security conference in Singapore Saturday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to the security of South Korea.

31 May 2009 - - Reuters - Asians talk of peace, haggle over arms

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:19:13 GMT

Asia's defense policymakers spoke of peace in the region's top security conference in Singapore, but have been also huddling in the corridors of a luxury hotel haggling over deals with arms suppliers. The annual Asia Security Conference, a forum for discussion, brought together some of the world's main arms-makers with military chiefs nervously eyeing their neighbors' moves and looking to upgrade defenses in a region full of long-running insurgencies, potential maritime disputes and growing wealth.

31 May 2009 - - Reuters - Britain hopeful on U.N. action over North Korea

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:21:14 GMT

Britain said on Sunday it was hopeful the United Nations Security Council will deliver a resolution against North Korea that includes tougher financial sanctions, after the isolated state's nuclear test last week. "There is a genuine world concern, and hopefully a consensus will come from that," Ann Taylor, British Minister for International Defense and Security, told Reuters in an interview on Sunday on the sidelines of a regional defense conference.

31 May 2009 - - Reuters - Pakistan battles Taliban; Swat offensive ''near end''

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:24:22 GMT

"Only five to 10 percent of the job is remaining and hopefully within two to three days, the pockets of resistance will be cleared," Syed Athar Ali, secretary of defense for Pakistan, said at a regional defense meeting in Singapore.

31 May 2009 - - Reuters - U.S., allies prepare for tougher response to N.Korea

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:27:08 GMT

The United States and its Asian allies could look at tougher responses should diplomacy fail to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear program, officials at a security conference said at the weekend.

31 May 2009 - - Reuters - Myanmar says Suu Kyi trial an internal affair

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:37:09 GMT

Myanmar said on Sunday that the trial of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was in line with its laws and was a domestic issue other countries should not interfere with. "The legal action against Aung San Suu Kyi is merely the internal affairs of Myanmar, taking action through its legal system in accordance with domestic law," said Major General Aye Myint, Myanmar's Deputy Minister of Defense, at the Asia Security Conference in Singapore.

31 May 2009 - - People's Daily - Navy chief: Indian Navy stabilizing force in Indian Ocean region

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:40:36 GMT

Speaking Saturday at the eighth annual Asian security summit held in Singapore under the auspices of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mehta said the Indian Navy "has been a trend-setter in the anti-piracy efforts off the Gulf of Aden."

31 May 2009 - - Xinhua News - Singapore official: Military transparency crucial to avoid misunderstandings

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:43:21 GMT

Military transparency plays a crucial role in avoiding misunderstandings and increasing trust and confidence for the Asia-Pacific, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Teo Chee Hean said here on Sunday. Teo spoke at the 8th Asia Security Summit (Shangri- La Dialogue) that military transparency "is not an end in itself but a means to peace and stability," and it needs to operate at three levels, namely disclosure armaments and arsenals, statements of strategic intent, cooperative an

31 May 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Tiger networks still intact

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:47:58 GMT

'It is important for the international community to take all measures to assist the government of Sri Lanka to track down the global network of the LTTE,' he told an annual forum of defence and military officials organised by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies

31 May 2009 - - BBC News - Pakistan 'nearing Swat victory'

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:51:54 GMT

Pakistan's operation against Taliban rebels in the Swat valley region should be over in the next few days, the country's defence secretary has said. Syed Athar Ali told a meeting of Asian nations in Singapore that only "5% to 10% of the job" remains.

28 May 2009 - - Associated Press - Gates to press for Far East unity on N Korea threat

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:23:48 GMT

Gates flew to Singapore for meetings with foreign ministers aimed at a cohesive response to the North Korean atomic test. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued stern statements underscoring the firmness of U.S. treaty commitments to defend South Korea and Japan, U.S. allies in easy range of the North's missiles. Gates' trip to meet with leaders from South Korea, Japan and other Far East nations had already been planned, but U.S. officials said North Korea's bomb and missile tests an

28 May 2009 - - Defense News - North Korea Expected To Dominate Shangri-La Dialogue

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:01:21 GMT

North Korea's saber rattling - not maritime security and piracy, as planned - will likely dominate debate at this year's Shangri-La Dialogue scheduled from May 29-31 in Singapore. Pyongyang's second nuclear test and missile launches have earned it pariah state status at this year's edition of theannual meeting. Hosted by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the meeting has become the premier defense and security summit of Asia.

28 May 2009 - - Bloomberg - North Korean Threat Shapes Gates Talks at Asia Defense Summit

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:03:50 GMT

North Korea's saber rattling - not maritime security and piracy, as planned - will likely dominate debate at this year's Shangri-La Dialogue scheduled from May 29-31 in Singapore. e security talks, scheduled for three days starting tomorrow, follow North Korea’s threat that it would respond militarily to South Korea’s planned participation in a U.S.-led program to seize weapons of mass destruction. Gates aims to reassure allies that the economic crisis and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won’t dilute U.

27 May 2009 - - VOA News - Gates to Discuss North Korea's 'Potential Game Changer' at Singapore Conference

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:30:49 GMT

U.S. officials say North Korea's recent moves will be a key topic for Defense Secretary Robert Gates as he heads to Singapore late Wednesday, arriving Friday morning, to attend an annual regional defense conference.

27 May 2009 - - Associated Press - US looking for Russians, Chinese to lead

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:48:42 GMT

North Korea's nuclear test forced the Pentagon to scrap much of its planning for a Saturday meeting in Singapore with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts. "Undoubtedly, the developments in North Korea over the weekend will be a focus of that conversation," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters. Morrell said it was believed that the meeting would be the first discussion among the three nations' defense chiefs.

27 May 2009 - - RTT News - U.S., Allies To Meet On N. Korea

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:17:59 GMT

S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will meet with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Singapore Saturday as part of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue--a meeting of largely Pacific-region defense ministers--to discuss North Korea's recent nuclear tests and missile firings, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

27 May 2009 - - Business Times - Trilateral meeting on N Korea in S'pore

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:37:53 GMT

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates will meet on Saturday with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Singapore to discuss North Korea's recent nuclear tests and missile launches, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The trilateral meeting between Mr Gates, Japan's Yasukazu Hamada and South Korea's Lee Sang-Hee, will be the first between the defence ministers.

27 May 2009 - - Stars and Stripes - Gates plans meeting with Asian allies

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:46:21 GMT

Gates first will give a speech on Saturday on security issues in the region. Later, he will meet privately with the defense ministers of South Korea, Lee Sang-hee, and Japan, Yasukazu Hamada. The trilateral meeting between Mr Gates, Japan's Yasukazu Hamada and South Korea's Lee Sang-Hee, will be the first between the defence ministers.

27 May 2009 - - Agence France Presse - US still open to diplomacy with NKorea: report

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:44:25 GMT

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is due to meet his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Singa-pore Saturday to discuss North Korea.

27 May 2009 - - CanWest News Service - Halt tests or pay price, North Korea warned

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:51:22 GMT

The Pentagon said Tuesday Defence Secretary Robert Gates would discuss the recent weapons tests in a meeting Saturday in Singapore with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts.

27 May 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Gates heads to Asia amid crisis with North Korea

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:22:52 GMT

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates heads to Asia Wednesday to sound out regional leaders over tensions raised by a North Korean nuclear test and its threat to attack South Korea, a US ally. Gates will stop Friday and Saturday in Singapore to attend an annual security conference expected to be dominated by North Korea's belligerent stance. "This is clearly the most urgent issue in the region right now," said a senior US defense official.

27 May 2009 - - American Forces Press Service - Gates Leaves for Asia Security Talks

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:41:15 GMT

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates leaves today for two days of security talks with defense counterparts and other senior officials from across Asia. The Asia Security Summit, known as the “Shangri-La Dialogue” for the Singapore hotel at which it’s held annually, is sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It opens May 30, and comes on the heels of a week of provocative acts by North Korea, including reported nuclear and missile tests and rumors of threats to attack U.S. and South K

27 May 2009 - - United Press International - Gates travels to Asia

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:46:48 GMT

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates's Asia trip comes amid growing global concerns about North Korea's nuclear and missile testing, U.S. official say. Gates left for Asia Wednesday for the two-day Asian Security Summit in Singapore where he will meet with defense ministers and senior defense officials from the continent, the American Forces Press Service re-ported. The meeting, opening Saturday, is sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

27 May 2009 - - Xinhua News - Gates leaves for Asia for security talks

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:52:36 GMT

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates left on Wednesday for Singapore to attend a two-day security talks with the regional defense and other senior officials. According to the Pentagon, the defense chief would attend the Asia Security Summit, or the "Shangri-La Dialogue," which is sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

27 May 2009 - - Jiji Press - Japan, U.S., S. Korea Defense Chiefs to Hold Talks on N. Korea

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:51 GMT

.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will hold a meeting with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Singapore this week to discuss how the international community should act on North Korea's recent nuclear test, Defense Department officials said Tuesday. The meeting among Gates, Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada and South Korean National De-fense Minister Lee Sang Hee is seen to take place on Saturday on the sidelines of an annual Asian security meeting, the officials said.

Survival Volume 51, No 3

Fri, 22 May 2009 16:50:09 GMT

Volume 51, Number 3 of Survival, the Institute's bi-monthly journal, has been published.

27 May 2009 - - Chicago Tribune - Missiles escalate tensions between North and South Korea

Wed, 27 May 2009 10:13:56 GMT

U.S. officials said Defense Secretary Robert Gates would meet with Japanese and South Korean defense ministers in Singapore on Saturday to discuss the North Korean nuclear test.

27 May 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Obama reassures allies

Wed, 27 May 2009 10:31:57 GMT

Analysts expect North Korea's nuclear test to prompt closer US cooperation with its East Asian allies. South Korea said it would join US-led proliferation drills after long hesitation due to fear of riling Pyongyang. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will huddle with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts on Saturday at a conference in Singapore, the Pentagon said.

27 May 2009 - - ABC News (Australia) - North Korea told it will pay for nuclear test

Wed, 27 May 2009 10:47:09 GMT

KIM LANDERS: Meanwhile the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates will meet his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Singapore this weekend to discuss North Korea's nuclear test and recent missile launches.

27 May 2009 - - Bloomberg - Obama N. Korea Options May Be Limited by Regime Shift

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:12:44 GMT

In Washington, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said yesterday that the U.S. wants North Korea to “pay a price” for its “reckless behavior.” The U.S. is working within the UN Security Council to toughen sanctions on Kim’s regime. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, due in Singapore later in the week for a regional conference, will confer with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts on the North Korean threat.

27 May 2009 - - New York Times - Obama in Netanyahu’s Web

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:52:22 GMT

The third imperative is for Obama to shift from what Nader Mousavizadeh of the International Institute for Strategic Studies recently called a “mix of rhetorical innovation and policy continuation” to new thinking on Iran freed of carrot-and-stick redundancy.

27 May 2009 - - The Age - Indonesia rejects Rudd's Asia plan

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:22:30 GMT

INDONESIAN Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono has dismissed Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's push for an all-encompassing "Asia-Pacific community" to tackle regional security threats, suggesting the idea is too broad to have a realistic chance of success. Mr Rudd is expected to again raise his proposal - aimed at strengthening ties to combat common security, economic and political problems - at a meeting of regional defence ministers in Singapore this week.

27 May 2009 - - Le Figaro - Nucléaire : la Corée du Nord persiste et signe

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:28:22 GMT

Le dossier sera évidemment sur la table lors des entretiens trilatéraux que le secrétaire américain, Robert Gates, aura avec ses homologues japonais et sud-coréens, samedi à Singapour. Les options, pourant, ne sont pas légion.

26 May 2009 - - Xinhua News - U.S. secretary Gates to meet counterparts of Japan, S. Korea on DPRK's nuclear test

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:22:10 GMT

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will discuss Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests with his counterparts of Japan and South Korea on Saturday in Singapore, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Gates, Japan's Yasukazu Hamada and South Korea's Lee Sang-Hee will hold their first trilateral meeting, which is planned as part of an annual security forum of defense ministers from countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

26 May 2009 - - Agence France Presse - NKorea fires missiles, following nuclear test

Wed, 27 May 2009 10:41:25 GMT

As diplomatic moves on how to respond to the North's test gathered pace, the Pentagon said US Defence Secretary Robert Gates would meet his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Singapore on Saturday to discuss the issue. The meeting was already planned as part of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue -- a meeting of largely Pacific-region defense ministers -- but is set to center on Pyongyang's moves that have drawn global condemnation.

26 May 2009 - - Deutsche Welle - Rift between developed and developing countries mars IAEA

Tue, 26 May 2009 11:17:34 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick, a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Non-proliferation, who was in charge of liaison with the IAEA for the United States during a four year stint in Vienna, notes that while the tensions between developed and developing countries have existed for quite some time, things have gotten worse recently. "The IAEA used to operate on a consensus principle", he says, adding that earlier there was great emphasis at the IAEA on reaching decisions unanimously.

26 May 2009 - - New Zealand Government Press Release - New defence link with Singapore

Tue, 26 May 2009 11:43:43 GMT

Dr Mapp left this morning for a two-day official Defence visit to Singapore. He will go on to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual regional defence diplomacy forum attended by 27 countries over the weekend, and the biennial Five Power Defence Arrangements meeting of Defence Ministers in Malaysia early next week. The meeting is expected to happen on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional defence and secu-rity forum.

26 May 2009 - - Straits Times - Road blocks near Shangri-La

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:00:13 GMT

SINGAPORE will host the 8th IISS Asia Security Conference at the Shangri-La Hotel from Friday to Sunday. Delegates from 27 countries will be at the meeting to discuss issues on defence and security in the Asia Pacific region.

26 May 2009 - - Agence France Presse - US, Japan and S Korea officials to meet on N Korea

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:32:45 GMT

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates will meet his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Singapore Saturday to discuss North Korea's recent nuclear and missile tests, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The meeting was already planned as part of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue -- a meeting of largely Pacific-region defense ministers -- but is set to center on Pyongyang's moves that have drawn global condemnation.

26 May 2009 - - Straits Times - Outrage over N. Korean nuclear and missile tests

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:44:17 GMT

Citing an unnamed source, the Yonhap news agency reported that South Korean Defence Minister Lee Sang Hee is expected to hold tripartite talks with his counterparts from the US and Japan to discuss counter-action against North Korea's nuclear test. The meeting is expected to happen on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional defence and secu-rity forum.

26 May 2009 - - ABC News (Australia) - Mark Fitzpatrick discusses N Korea nuclear testing

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:59:03 GMT

Interview with Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

25 May 2009 - - BBC News - North Korea: engage, appease, oppose?

Mon, 25 May 2009 17:32:40 GMT

North Korea has a million-strong army, with more than 4,000 tanks and about 18,000 artillery pieces, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Its forces are encamped only a short distance from the South Korean capital, Seoul. An Iraq-style invasion is not possible.

25 May 2009 - - Yonhap News - Defense chiefs of S. Korea, U.S., Japan to meet over N. Korean nuke test

Tue, 26 May 2009 10:42:34 GMT

South Korea's defense minister will hold tripartite talks with his counterparts from the U.S. and Japan in Sin-gapore later this week to discuss counteraction against North Korea's nuclear test, a source said Monday. "The North's nuclear test will be high on their agenda when the three ministers meet in Singapore on Satur-day on the sidelines of a regional security forum," the South Korean source said, declining to be named. Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee was initially scheduled to hold talks with his pa

25 May 2009 - - Yonhap News - S. Korean defense head readjusts upcoming Asian trip: officials

Tue, 26 May 2009 10:48:54 GMT

He was scheduled to hold talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates during the three-day "Shan-gri-La Dialogue," but Lee may have to alter his plan because tension runs higher than ever on the Korean Peninsula, officials here said. "It's back to square one as far as the itinerary goes," an official said, declining to be named. Another official said Lee may shorten the length of each of his trips to China and Singapore, respectively.

25 May 2009 - - Kyodo News - S. Korea blasts N. Korea's nuclear test as 'serious threat'

Tue, 26 May 2009 11:03:38 GMT

South Korean Defense Minister Lee Sang Hee will hold three-way talks with his counterparts from the United States and Japan in Singapore later this week, a meeting set in the wake of North Korea's nuclear test, Yonhap News Agency said. Lee had planned to meet separately with his Japanese and U.S. counterparts, Yonhap said. They will be in Singapore for a regional security forum organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

25 May 2009 - - Agence France Presse - SKorea calls North's test 'provocation,' puts military on alert

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:31:39 GMT

The minister had been scheduled to leave for Beijing Tuesday before flying to Singapore to attend a re-gional security forum there and hold talks with US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates.

25 May 2009 - - CNN - North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:27:20 GMT

CHETRY: In the meantime, we have these tests coming as Defense Chief Robert Gates is getting ready to head into the region. Any word on whether or not this changes plans or adds to his agenda? STARR: Well, I think it certainly does add, in fact, as you say, to his agenda. This was a scheduled meeting. He is on his way to Singapore. He will also travel to other countries in the region on a six-day swing through the pacific. He will go to South Korea.

25 May 2009 - - Agence France Presse - S Korea military forms crisis team after nuke test report

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:16:05 GMT

Defence Minister Lee Sang-Hee cancelled a scheduled three-day trip to China, the ministry spokesman said. The minister was to leave for Beijing Tuesday before flying to Singapore to attend a regional security forum there and to hold talks with US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, he said.

25 May 2009 - - Defense News - Defense Leaders Get Together For Shangri-la Conference

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:15:17 GMT

The eighth annual Shangri-La Dialogue, a three-day event set to begin May 29, will again host defense ministers and top-tier defense officials from around Asia, Europe and the United States at the Shangri-La Hotel here. Sponsored by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the Asian Security Summit, as it is formally known, has become a key annual event for defense and security diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific since its debut in 2002.

24 May 2009 - - Channel News Asia - US defence secretary to attend Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore

Wed, 27 May 2009 23:16:08 GMT

Participants at the annual Asia security summit, dubbed the Shangri-La Dialogue, will be given a deeper in-sight into the security policies of the new Obama Administration when US Defence Secretary Dr Robert Gates takes part in the summit next week in Singapore.

24 May 2009 - - Boston Globe - US probes divisions within Taliban

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:08:15 GMT

“Some of them . . . may not be susceptible to dialogue or moderating influences,'' Hilary Synnott, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said recently in an online forum hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations. “But others, such as . . . those who are being coerced by extremists of whom they disapprove, or those who are frustrated by the lack of alternative opportunities, may be per-suaded or induced to lay down their arms and work for peace.''

21 May 2009 - - Economist - A merry dance

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:00:47 GMT

Yet Mr Kim’s fit of belligerence may be aimed less at testing America’s new president than at showing “strength” to shore up his regime, argues Mark Fitzpatrick of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. One reason perhaps is that South Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, has taken a firmer line than his predecessor, expecting reciprocity—such as more family reunions between the Koreas—if more than just humanitarian food aid is to flow northward. Another possible reason is that Mr Kim’

21 May 2009 - - Washington Post - Bringing Iran In From the Cold

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:15:43 GMT

By Nader Mousavizadeh, Consulting Senior Fellow

20 May 2009 - - Guardian - Iran test fires missile capable of reaching US bases or Israel

Thu, 21 May 2009 11:40:53 GMT

An earlier version of the Sajjil was tested in November last year.The Sajjil-2 appears to have a slightly longer range than the prototype. Mark Fitzpatrick, an analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the development of the Sajjil missile was significant because of the type of fuel it used, rather than its range.

20 May 2009 - - Associated Press - Iran tests missile with range that can hit Israel

Thu, 21 May 2009 11:52:40 GMT

But Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for nonproliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said the Sajjil-2 had a longer range than the first model, increasing Iran's missile threat. The moment could arrive when Iran can "mate" these capabilities with its growing nuclear capabilities, leading to "a nightmare situation," he said.

20 May 2009 - - Bernama - PM Najib Will Explore New Opportunies In Singapore

Wed, 27 May 2009 10:09:37 GMT

Najib, who will be accompanied by his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, last came to the city-state on May 31 last year to attend the 7th IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies) Asia Security Summit - The Shangri-La Dialogue where he was a regular speaker, when he was Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister.

06 Feb 2009 - - Daily Yomiuri - Japan's think tanks at crossroads

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:03:20 GMT

On the other hand, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, which was founded in 1958, managed to establish an international reputation through its publication of Military Balance, an annual assessment of the military capabilities and defense economics of 170 countries. Though the two institutes were established around the same time, JIIA seems to have been left far behind the British think tank.

06 Feb 2009 - - BBC World Service - Interview with Nigel Inkster

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:03:31 GMT

Interview with Nigel Inkster, Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk

06 Feb 2009 - - Los Angeles Times - Sunni rivals clash over elections in Iraq's Anbar province

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:18:25 GMT

For their part, the tribes have failed to present a united front and provide voters with an alternative to the IIP. Critics say they are just as focused on enriching themselves with contracts handed out by the U.S. military, whose support elevated their status and upset the age-old pecking order here. "It's not a political party. It's a bunch of rather quarrelsome individuals who are claiming popular support," said analyst Toby Dodge of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

05 Feb 2009 - - New York Times - Britain Suspends Cultural Office in Tehran

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:58:00 GMT

In a speech Wednesday, the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, said it was “very welcome indeed that the United States should be seeking to enter the multilateral debate about the Iranian nuclear program and also discussing its own bilateral engagement with the Iranian government.” “I think that we have said for a long time that this is a vital issue, not just for the Middle East, which has more than enough problems without a nuclear arms race,” he said.

05 Feb 2009 - - Associated Press - Britain Seeks New Talks Aimed at Ridding World of Nukes

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:01:44 GMT

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Wednesday called for new talks between major powers aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

05 Feb 2009 - - Reuters - A nuclear-free world?

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:20:31 GMT

Foreign Secretary David Miliband said it was a 'critical moment' for efforts to halt the spread of nuclear arms because 'more people and more countries are seeking the ultimate weapon', he said, mentioning the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programmes. 'But we are also at a moment of opportunity,' he said at an event to launch the paper, called 'Lifting the nuclear shadow'.

05 Feb 2009 - - Associated Press - Britain seeks new talks on nuclear disarmament

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:49:35 GMT

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband says he wants major world powers to begin new talks aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons. The British diplomatic chief says he hopes countries can agree on an international legal framework to reduce their arsenals.

05 Feb 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - The nuclear debate is back on the launch pad

Tue, 05 May 2009 10:38:04 GMT

In Britain, too, the subject is in vogue. Last August, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the world's pre-eminent military think tank, published a paper on abolishing nuclear weapons. This month it will host the launching of a book on the ultimate deterrent by Sir Michael Quinlan, former permanent under-secretary at the Ministry of Defence and a prolific writer on the subject.

05 Feb 2009 - - Times - David Miliband: now is the time to show we're serious about the treaty

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:36:22 GMT

Mr Miliband set out a six-point plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. The proposal calls for tight measures to halt the spread of atomic weapons, cuts in the US and Russian nuclear arsenals and the activation of a global test ban treaty.

04 Feb 2009 - - Glasgow Herald - Time ‘now right’ for removal of Trident missiles

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:27:37 GMT

The UK Government paper, due to be launched by David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, will set out Whitehall's current position on the nuclear deterrent and its hopes for making progress on future disarmament.

04 Feb 2009 - - Reuters - U.K. sets plan for nuclear weapons-free world

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:07:19 GMT

Britain sets out a six-point plan on Wednesday for a nuclear-free world, at a time when global powers fear Iran will produce a bomb and Barack Obama's inauguration has renewed interest in disarmament. The British document calls for watertight measures to stop terrorists or emerging states getting atomic weapons, deeper cuts in U.S.-Russian nuclear arsenals and the activation of a global nuclear test ban treaty.

04 Feb 2009 - - Press Association - Bid to speed up nuclear disarmament

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:45:40 GMT

Foreign Secretary David Miliband has set out a six-step programme to create the conditions to rid the world of nuclear weapons. The move came amid reports that US President Barack Obama is planning talks with Russia on a new agreement to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), with the possible aim of reducing stockpiles to 1,000 warheads on each side.

04 Feb 2009 - - Agence France Presse - UK Foreign Secretary: Obama ''Impetus'' To Nuclear Nonproliferation

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:27:33 GMT

"We're at a very, very critical moment, but we're also at a moment of opportunity" on the subject of nuclear nonproliferation, Miliband said at a thinktank event in London. "I suppose that every foreign minister's speech by any foreign minister anywhere in the world at the moment says that the Obama administration creates an opportunity, but in this case it's true."

04 Feb 2009 - - Independent - Iranian satellite launch prompts fresh concern

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:16:14 GMT

Andrew Brookes of the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies said the development was a logical progression of Iran's existing space and satellite programme and "perfectly reasonable" if applied only for civilian purposes. But he predicted they would use it for a parallel military development in due course. "They are not going to go to all that trouble just to beam down the voice of Ayatollah Khameini on satellite television. Eventually they will be able to site a surveillance or reconnai

04 Feb 2009 - - The National (UAE) - Iran launches space race ambition

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:49:25 GMT

Andrew Brookes of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank in London, said the satellite launch would worry Israel and other countries in the region. “They will think that this civilian capability will soon be transformed to a military reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering capacity,” he said. “You don’t invest all that just to launch a satellite TV channel.”

04 Feb 2009 - - Financial Times - Iranian satellite launch alarms west

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:18:00 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick, an expert on Iranian military technology at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, said Tehran had scored a notable breakthrough last November with the launch of the Sajjil missile. “The Sajjil has a solid fuel engine which is easier to handle than a liquid fuel engine and can be fired with little notice.”

David Miliband Address

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:44:06 GMT

On Wednesday 4 February The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addressed the IISS and launched ‘Lifting the Nuclear Shadow: Creating the Conditions for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons’, a Policy Information Paper by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

04 Feb 2009 - - Guardian - UK prisons: incubators for terrorism?

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:05:27 GMT

By Rafaelllo Pantucci, Research Associate

03 Feb 2009 - - Reuters - Arms control to start U.S.-Russia thaw

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:51:01 GMT

Whether such an initiative will launch a new era of U.S.-Russian detente is uncertain. Oksana Antonenko, senior fellow on Russia and the former Soviet countries at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says arms control alone cannot be the engine of a better relationship because suspicion on both sides is so deep. “It is hard to see who in the Obama team will advocate a strategic rapprochement with Russia. Russia isn’t on their radar screen at all,” she said.

03 Feb 2009 - - BBC News - Iran's slow but sure missile advance

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:13:58 GMT

"This launch represents another technological advance for Iran," says Mark Fitzpatrick, nuclear watcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "One concern is that the rocket used this time, the Safir 2, is basically the same as Iran's ballistic missile, the Shahab 3, so each launch increases its accuracy and reliability.

03 Feb 2009 - - Reuters - First Iranian-made satellite launched

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:23:27 GMT

But Andrew Brookes of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think-tank in London said the development would worry Israel and others in region. "They will think that this civilian capability will soon be transformed to a military reconnaissance and intelligence gathering capability," he said by telephone. "You don't invest all that just to launch a satellite TV channel."

02 Feb 2009 - - Wall St Journal - Senior Democrat Snubbed by Iran in Outreach Bid

Tue, 05 May 2009 10:36:58 GMT

The proposed meeting was brokered by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, organizer of the Manama Dialogue, an annual regional security conference. Rep. Berman canceled his trip to Bahrain after being notified by the institute that Mr. Larijani wouldn't attend, according to officials familiar with the episode.

01 Feb 2009 - - Associated Press - No answer at Davos forum to global meltdown

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:01:54 GMT

John Chipman, head of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, told the AP that no session in Davos examined "the links between the global economic downturn and financial difficulties, and the prospects for geopolitical conflict and conflict resolution." "Intuitively, one would think that with the current economic situation, there would be countries whose social stability would be a threat unless they were able to maintain growth levels," he said, citing China as one example.

30 Jan 2009 - - The Nation (Pakistan) - Weak, dependent and divided

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:23:40 GMT

India has officially described Pakistan as "the epicentre of terrorism" and keeps threatening it. The world media considers us "the most dangerous country in the world." In its annual review of world security, the London International Institute for Strategic Studies has noted that Al-Qaeda elements along the "disputed" Afghanistan-Pakistan border have increased their activity in Pakistan while continuing to support the insurgency in Afghanistan. The think-tank says that "in NWFP, security forces in general

30 Jan 2009 - - Canadian Press - Top Afghan official won't run for president

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:15:56 GMT

The Afghan constitution requires that a presidential vote be held this spring, but allows for delays in the event of security concerns. Afghanistan's election commission said yesterday the election will be pushed back to Aug. 20 to give coalition forces more time to bolster security. The delay comes one day after the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies warned Afghanistan is entering its most critical period since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

30 Jan 2009 - - International Herald Tribune - With Obama ready to talk, Iran must weigh options

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:59:33 GMT

The reaction of Mottaki added to a sense among diplomats and foreign policy observers here that contrary to conventional wisdom - and the official Iranian stance - it was politically even more difficult for Iran to re-engage than for the United States, particularly five months before elections in Iran. As John Chipman, director general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, put it: "Obama seems to have called Iran's bluff."

Survival Volume 51, No 1

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:01:42 GMT

Volume 51, Number 1 of Survival, the Institute's bi-monthly journal, has been published.

29 Jan 2009 - - Canadian Press - Key Afghan minister rules out presidential bid; vote delayed to August

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:27:50 GMT

The delay comes one day after the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies warned Afghanistan is entering its most critical period since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. In its annual report on the capabilities of national militaries around the globe, the British think tank warned that Karzai's government holds little sway beyond Kabul's city limits.

29 Jan 2009 - - Edmonton Journal - Afghan police on target for August vote: Official

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:48:36 GMT

Still, security in the country remains precarious. Police forces are rife with corruption and illiteracy and are behind the Afghan army in their development. On Wednesday, a London-based think-tank said rising violence in Afghanistan could threaten the elections entirely and put the international mission in peril. "There is a risk that it will not be possible to hold elections; or voter turnout may be below the minimum necessary for the ballot to be valid," The International Institute for Strategic Stu

29 Jan 2009 - - Times - Analysis: Obama's victory may result in a chastened Russia

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:43:14 GMT

Instead, as yesterday’s report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) highlighted, Russia is more rattle than sabre. Its military is outdated. Its economy is reeling. It faces huge social problems. As Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, will no doubt make clear this evening at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Kremlin needs all the friends it can get.

29 Jan 2009 - - National Review - Iranian Revolution@30

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:47:50 GMT

Today, the 30-year-old Iranian Revolution appears simultaneously dangerous and decrepit. Iran has made Syria its client, created Hezbollah as its proxy, and adopted Hamas. A new report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies says Iran is likely to produce enough low-enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb before the end of this year. Long-range ballistic missiles are under development as well.

29 Jan 2009 - - Chosun Ilbo - China 'to Flex Military Might Abroad as Recession Hobbles U.S.'

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:50:23 GMT

2009 will be the year China begins to flex its military muscle overseas while the United States encounters more obstacles in its "war on terror" in Afghanistan and elsewhere as allies cut back on military spending amid the global economic crisis. Russia remains a paper tiger, while Iran will be capable of producing a nuclear weapon before the end of this year. Those predictions come from the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies' annual assessment of global military power, titled "Mil

29 Jan 2009 - - Stars and Stripes - Report: Violence could delay Afghan elections

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:53:49 GMT

Faltering security and rising Taliban violence throughout Afghanistan could delay elections planned for later this year and put the international mission here at risk of failure, according to a leading think tank. In its annual publication, "The Military Balance," the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies warned that the war in Afghanistan is entering its most critical phase since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Those predictions come from the London-based International Institute

29 Jan 2009 - - Fox News - Gary Samore Tapped for Weapons of Mass Destruction 'Czar'

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:32:14 GMT

Prior to his job at the Council on Foreign Relations, he was Director of Studies and Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation at the International institute for Strategic Studies in Britain. His main responsibilities included directing the think tank's program called "Fostering an International Consensus on Fighting the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)", which the IISS says seeks to "strengthen transatlantic cooperation and promote coordinated responses to threats posed by the proliferation of nucle

29 Jan 2009 - - ABC News - New White House WMD Czar Wants Immediate Talks with Iran, to 'Manage' North Korea Until it Collapses

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:33:47 GMT

Samore served as Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls on the National Security Council from 1996-2001 and has been focused on non-proliferation issues throughout his career. He recently served as editor of three International Institute for Strategic Studies "dossiers" on weapons programs in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran.

28 Jan 2009 - - Press Trust of India - Iran 'could have a nuclear bomb by 2010'

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:00:09 GMT

Iran, labelled as an 'axis of evil' by the United States, could have a nuclear bomb by 2010, a leading international think-tank has warned.

28 Jan 2009 - - Times - Taking a new tack with Iran

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:56:22 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick, of the IISS think-tank in London, said that within a year Iran would have enough low-enriched uranium to make a weapon, if it then enriched the material further. He added that Iran had enough uranium in gaseous form to make 35 weapons.

28 Jan 2009 - - Fox News - Iran Capable of Producing Nuclear Bomb 'This Year'

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:56:26 GMT

Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) reported on Tuesday. The think tank made the prediction in its 'Military Balance 2009,' an annual assessment of global defense and military developments

28 Jan 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - Afghanistan enters 'critical period' as Nato's role is considered

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:18:04 GMT

"In Afghanistan, we are entering what is probably the most critical period since 2001," said John Chipman, the chief executive of the IISS. "Presidential elections are due to take place this year amid rising violence and with a government that is unable to exert its authority in the provinces. Against this background, there is a risk that it will not be possible to hold elections, or voter turnout may be below the minimum necessary for the ballot to be valid. The integrity of the whole international mission

28 Jan 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - Iran could have ability to build nuclear bomb by 2010, study warns

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:33:39 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies has said Iran is months away from crossing a vital threshold which could put it on course to build a weapon. Mark Fitzpatrick, the senior fellow for non-proliferation at the IISS, said: "This year, it's very likely that Iran will have produced enough low-enriched uranium which, if further enriched, could constitute enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon, if that is the route Iran so desires."

28 Jan 2009 - - Global Security Newswire - Iran Would Need One Year to Produce Bomb-Grade Uranium, Expert Says

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:44:06 GMT

Tehran insists it only intends to produce low-enriched uranium for use in civilian nuclear power plants. The United States and other Western powers have demanded that Iran halt its enrichment program because Tehran might continue enriching the uranium until it is suitable for use in a bomb, according to the International Institute of Strategic Studies. "This year, it's very likely that Iran will have produced enough low-enriched uranium which, if further enriched, could constitute enough fissile material

27 Jan 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - Russia defence spending soars

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:54:20 GMT

Russia's defence budget has risen by 34 per cent since last year and its armed forces are being completely overhauled, according to the most authoritative survey of global military trends.

27 Jan 2009 - - Guardian - Nato tensions damaging Afghanistan mission, warns thinktank

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:00:18 GMT

Tensions within Nato are undermining the west's mission in Afghanistan at the most critical period in the country since the invasion in 2001, a leading thinktank warned today. The warning, from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, comes at a time when Nato commanders are urging governments to deploy more troops to the country, against strong European opposition.

27 Jan 2009 - - Jerusalem Post - IISS report: Israel should seek support from ''moderate Arab states''

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:30:25 GMT

Israel should find common ground with "moderate Arab states" to garner support for its battles against terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hizbullah, according to a statement released by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) released Tuesday.

27 Jan 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - Nato losing battle against the Taliban, says IISS

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:31:23 GMT

The warning, in the IISS's annual Military Balance survey of armed forces around the world, comes as new US President Barack Obama is expected to appeal to America's European allies to send more troops in an attempt to force a strategic breakthrough. The report said that the Taliban insurgency had continued "unabated" throughout the past 12 months - even moving into previously quiet provinces - adding to pressures on the alliance.

27 Jan 2009 - - Press Association - Nato tensions 'hit Afghan mission'

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:31:53 GMT

Tensions within the Nato alliance and lack of progress in the fight against Taliban is undermining the international mission in Afghanistan, a leading think tank has warned. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said that the Taliban were stepping up the use of suicide bombings and expanding their operations into areas that were previously quiet.

AP 380: Libya and Nuclear Proliferation

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:59:57 GMT

Wyn Q. Bowen For over three decades, driven by the core motive of deterring external threats to its security, Libya sought to acquire nuclear weapons. Having attempted but failed to procure them ‘off the shelf’ from several states during the 1970s, by late 2003 it had succeeded in assembling much of the technology required to manufacture them. Nevertheless, following secret negotiations with the UK and US governments, in December 2003 Colonel Muammar Gadhafi resolved to abandon the...

Lieutenant General Karl W. Eikenberry

Wed, 31 May 2006 10:22:09 GMT

On Monday 10 April 2006 Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Army, Commanding General of Combined Forces Command – Afghanistan, spoke at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Military Leaders’ Forum on “Afghanistan: The Road Ahead.”

AP 379: Transformation of Strategic Affairs

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:03:54 GMT

Lawrence Freedman This paper examines the difficulty the US armed forces face in shifting their focus from preparing for regular wars, in which combat is separated from civil society, to irregular wars, in which combat is integrated with civil society. It argues that the political context of contemporary irregular wars requires that the purpose and practice of Western forces be governed by liberal values. This is also the case with regular wars, to the extent that they occur, but...

New IISS website

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:36:42 GMT

The IISS is pleased to announce that we have upgraded our website and added new features including:. Remember me function*Enhanced website navigationNew site search facility Improved events calendar New online contact/feedback form Additional information on the IISS Members pages, such as special eventsFull compliance for partially sighted and vision impaired users Additional features will be introduced to the website in the months ahead. Should you have any comments or are experiencing

Year 2006 - Issue 1

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:18:52 GMT

Volume 48, Number 1 of Survival, the Institute's quarterly journal, has been published.

Mangala Samaraweera Address

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:13:27 GMT

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 The Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ports and Aviation of Sri Lanka, will give an Address on 'Challenges faced by Sri Lanka in dealing with terrorism'.

Jack Straw (March 06)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:16:31 GMT

On Monday 13 March 2006 The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, gave a speech on "Iran: The Path Ahead".

H.E. K.K. Tokaev

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:20:31 GMT

On Thursday 9 March 2006 H.E. K.K. Tokaev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, gave an address on "Kazakhstan in the Context of the Geo-Politics of the Caspian".

Mr Shaukat Aziz

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:23:24 GMT

Mr Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, gave an address on Tuesday 7 March 2006 on 'Pakistan's Pivotal Role for Regional Peace, Stability and Progress'. A transcript of his speech is available at the bottom of the page.

Alberto R. Gonzales

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:30:05 GMT

On Tuesday 7 March 2006 The Honourable Alberto R. Gonzales, United States Attorney General, gave an Address on 'International Cooperation in the Fight against Terrorism'. IISS Director Dr John Chipman chaired the event.

Brigadier General Mark T. Kimmitt

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:21:30 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies has launched the Military Leaders’ Forum, a new series of meetings with leading military practitioners from the UK and around the world. The Forum is co-hosted by the Director of Studies and the Defence Analysis Programme. The inaugural meeting took place on 6 February 2006, and featured Brigadier General Mark T. Kimmitt, U.S. Army. Brigadier General Kimmitt, Deputy Director for Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5) for the United States Cent

AP 378: Nuclear Terrorism After 9/11

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:29:40 GMT

Robin M. Frost The very mention of nuclear terrorism is enough to rouse strong reactions, and understandably so, because it combines the most terrifying weapons and the most threatening of people in a single phrase. The possibility that terrorists could obtain and use nuclear weapons deserves careful analysis, but discussion has all too often been contaminated with exaggeration, even hysteria. For example, it has been claimed that nuclear terrorism poses an ‘existential threat’ to the...

AP 377: Revitalising US–Russian Security

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:30:31 GMT

Richard Weitz Russia and the United States are the most important countries for many vital security issues. They possess the world's largest nuclear weapons arsenals, are involved in the principal regional conflicts, and have lead roles in opposing international terrorism and weapons proliferation. Despite persistent differences on many questions, mutual interests consistently drive Russians and Americans to work together to overcome these impediments. This Adelphi Paper argues...

Alastair Buchan Lecture 2005

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:25:14 GMT

On 6 December 2005 Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered the 2005 Alastair Buchan Memorial lecture at the IISS. Dr ElBaradei and the IAEA have recently been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

AP 376: The Proliferation Security Initiative

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:31:10 GMT

Mark J. Valencia The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), launched by US President Bush in May 2003, is intended to prevent traffic in elements of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Most WMD traffic moves by sea, and the focus of the PSI is on maritime interdictions and seizures. Although the PSI has had some significant successes, it has been criticised for lacking sufficient public accountability, stretching international law to the limits, undermining the UN system, potentially...

AP 375: Protracted Refugee Situations

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:31:57 GMT

Gil Loescher and James Milner Protracted refugee populations not only constitute over 70% of the world’s refugees but are also a principal source of many of the irregular movements of people around the world today. The long-term presence of refugee populations in much of the developing world has come to be seen by many host states in these regions as a source of insecurity. In response, host governments have enacted policies of containing refugees in isolated and insecure camps,...

Nicky Oppenheimer Address

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:24:28 GMT

On Monday 13 June 2005 Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers, gave an address entitled "Africa needs a hand-up not a hand-out".

General Abdul Rahim Wardak

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:40:36 GMT

On Tuesday 5th April 2005, His Excellency General Abdul Rahim Wardak, The Minister for Defence of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan spoke at the IISS from 1.15-2.15pm. The title of his speech is “Security Sector Reform and State-Building in Afghanistan”.

Major General Giora Eiland

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:51:23 GMT

On Friday 25 February 2005 Major General (ret.) Giora Eiland, Head of the Israeli National Security Council and National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, gave a talk on "The Middle East after Sharm el-Sheikh: The Peace Process and Beyond''.

Jacques Chirac Address

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:17:18 GMT

Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic, addressed the IISS on "Values and directions for the 21st century".

Jack Straw Address (Oct 04)

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:22:54 GMT

Jack Straw, UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addressed the IISS on 'The challenges ahead for Afghanistan'.Related Strategic Comment: 'Afghanistan and the Drugs Trade'

Dr Allawi Address

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:49:04 GMT

Dr Allawi addressed the IISS on 30 September 2004.

Sergei Ivanov Address

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:37:46 GMT

On 13 July 2004 HE Mr Sergei Ivanov, Minister for Defence of the Russian Federation gave a talk at the IISS on 'Russia and NATO: Strategic Partners Responding to Emerging Threats’.

Alexander Downer Address

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:02:14 GMT

On 5 July 2004 The Hon Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia, gave a talk on "International security - making progress in uncertain times".

Ehud Olmert Address

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:43:05 GMT

On 12 March 2004 Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert addressed the IISS on the subject of Israel’s plans for disengagement.

NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:05:19 GMT

The IISS was delighted to welcome the Secretary General of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, to give his Inaugural Speech to Members of the Institute on 12 February 2004.

President Bush delivers IISS address

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:08:12 GMT

President Bush gave an address (see below) to an invited audience at Whitehall Palace on 19 November at an event jointly hosted by the IISS and RUSI.

Condoleezza Rice Address

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:44:18 GMT

An address 'Responsibilities of Freedom' by US National Security Advisor Dr Condoleezza Rice was made to the IISS at 12pm (GMT) on 26 June, 2003 at Arundel House, London

Alastair Buchan Lecture 2003

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:27:41 GMT

French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin delivered the 2003 Alastair Buchan Memorial Lecture: 'Law, Force and Justice' at Arundel House on March 27 2003

Jack Straw Address (Feb 03)

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Wolfowitz Address

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Building Coalitions of Common Values, 2 Dec 2002

Alastair Buchan Lecture Transcripts

Tue, 19 May 2009 19:14:27 GMT

This lecture was established in 1976 to commemorate Alastair Buchan, the Institute's first Director (1958-69). The inaugural lecture was given by Dr Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State.

Air War Over Lebanon

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:38:40 GMT

AIR WAR OVER LEBANON Andrew Brookes 8 August 2006 At the end of June, Palestinian Hamas members tunnelled into Israel, killing two soldiers and abducting Cpl Gilad Shalit. The focus then switched to Lebanon where Hizbullah, the Iranian-inspired ‘Party of God’, crossed the border on 12 July and abducted two Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers. When the Israelis went in hot pursuit, Hizbullah destroyed one of their tanks with a mine – and fired on the tank’s would-be...

Challenges for an International Force

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:38:54 GMT

The Challenges for an International Stabilisation Force in Lebanon 8 August 2006 It is difficult at this stage to judge the precise timing and mandate for the possible deployment of an international stabilisation force to Lebanon. However, IISS military experts attempt below to outline some of the possible principles governing the deployment, and the elements that might make up the force. It is assumed that a multi-national Lebanon International Stabilisation Force (LISF) would...

26 Oct 2009 - - Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Miliband: EU faces choice between progress or isolation

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:31:51 GMT

His warning came in a keynote address to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, entitled EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon. Miliband pleaded for a strategic long-term relationship between the EU and China and said relations with Russia over trade and energy supplies had to be put on a "mature and predictable" footing.

26 Oct 2009 - - Xinhua News - British foreign secretary calls for strong Britain in strong Europe

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:36:42 GMT

Miliband made a speech at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), saying that to be frightened of European foreign policy is blinkered, fatalistic and wrong. Britain should embrace it, shape it and lead it. He said "I believe it is clearer than ever that the EU magnifies British influence in the world, rather than threatens it. In everything from trade negotiations to the training of the Afghan police to sanctions on Iran or the greening of our economies, the EU helps us achieve ou

26 Oct 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Britain must shape, lead EU foreign policy: Miliband

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:40:42 GMT

"My case today is simple," Miliband told the International Institute for Strategic Studies. "It is that it is very strongly in the British national interest for the EU to develop a strong foreign policy; that to be frightened of European foreign policy is blinkered, fatalistic and wrong (and) that Britain should embrace it, shape it and lead it." He also said the European Union as a whole faces a choice between becoming "a leader on the world stage or (becoming) spectators in a G2 world shaped by the

26 Oct 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Britain must take a lead in EU foreign policy: Miliband

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:47:15 GMT

Britain should "embrace, shape and lead" European foreign policy after the expected full ratification of the Lisbon Treaty on EU reform, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday.

26 Oct 2009 - - Press Association - UK 'Must Help Forge Strong European Foreign Policy'

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:50:31 GMT

Britain must take a lead in developing a strong European foreign policy if it is to retain its influence around the world, Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned today. The UK would lose out internationally if it tried to oppose the EU foreign policy on the grounds of “hubris, nostalgia or xenophobia'', Mr Miliband said. Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, he attacked the Conservative opposi-tion to the Lisbon Treaty - which creates an EU foreign minister and dip

26 Oct 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - David Miliband warns EU they need Blair and his motorcade

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:46:44 GMT

Mr Miliband, who will today give a major speech on Europe, had been touted as a possible candidate for the position of High Representative for Foreign Affairs, the other high-ranking job that the Lisbon Treaty has created.

26 Oct 2009 - - Guardian - Britain must take lead in developing EU foreign policy – Miliband

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:54:43 GMT

Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Miliband attacked the Conservative opposition to the Lisbon treaty – which creates an EU foreign minister and diplomatic service – as a "deception". "It is very strongly in the British national interest for the EU to develop a strong foreign policy," he said.

26 Oct 2009 - - BBC News - Miliband: Britain needs strong EU

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:00:19 GMT

Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mr Miliband said: "It is very strongly in the British national interest for the European Union to develop a strong foreign policy.

26 Oct 2009 - - Reuters - Miliband attacks Tory policy on Europe

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:11:53 GMT

"In fact, a failed attempt to renegotiate aspects of the European Union that the Conservative Party does not like will lead inevitably to more calls for Britain to leave the European Union," he said in a speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London thinktank.

26 Oct 2009 - - Bloomberg - Miliband Says Britain Must ‘Shape and Lead’ EU Foreign Policy

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:20:43 GMT

“A strong Britain in a strong Europe is the best way to preserve and advance our interests in the modern world,” Miliband said in a speech at the International Institute of Strategic Studies research organization in London. “To be frightened of European foreign policy is blinkered, fatalistic and wrong. Britain should embrace it, shape it and lead it.”

26 Oct 2009 - - Financial Times - EU needs big hitter, says Miliband

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:20:30 GMT

The foreign secretary admitted that Mr Blair divided opinion in Europe, but urged EU leaders to consider the broader geopolitical picture. In a speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Mr Miliband said: “The choice for Europe is simple: get our act together and make the EU a leader on the world stage or become spectators in a G2 world shaped by the US and China.”

David Miliband Address (Oct 09)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:44:08 GMT

On Monday 26 October, The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addressed the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon".

26 Oct 2009 - - Politics.co.uk - Miliband speech viewed as 'EU audition'

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:13:35 GMT

David Miliband's European credentials will be up for scrutiny this morning as he makes a keynote speech on Europe.

26 Oct 2009 - - Daily Mail - Miliband launches EU campaign to crown Boney Blair

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:57:57 GMT

The Foreign Secretary will ram home the message today with a major speech making the case for a strong UK presence at the centre of a reinvigorated Europe.

25 Oct 2009 - - Sunday Express - Nuclear Weapons Raise the Stakes

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:18:56 GMT

By Sir Hilary Synnott, Consulting Senior Fellow

24 Oct 2009 - - Independent - Why he might like to take his leave of Labour

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:35:33 GMT

A speech intriguingly on "EU foreign policy after Lisbon"at the International Institute for Strategic Studies on Monday, a visit to Moscow at the beginning of next month, a keynote address at a Fabian conference in a week's time – there's barely a day or an invitation received when he isn't competing for the limelight. Is it because his hunger has returned for the Labour leadership, or has he given up that hope and turned his ambitions instead towards Europe with the soon-to-be-instituted post of EU foreign

24 Oct 2009 - - Agence France Presse - FM denies run for EU 'foreign minister'

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:39:07 GMT

Miliband's denial comes before what is being billed as a keynote speech on Europe next week, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London on Monday.

24 Oct 2009 - - Independent - Could it be Miliband – and not Blair – for Europe?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:10:01 GMT

On Monday, Mr Miliband is set to give a speech setting out his vision for the EU's meatier role on the world stage. He may now struggle to make clear that his interest in the new "EU Foreign Office" is not tied to any interest in becoming its boss.

23 Oct 2009 - - Guardian - David Miliband tipped as EU foreign minister

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:29:30 GMT

Miliband is to deliver what is being billed a keynote speech on his vision of European foreign policy under the Lisbon regime in London on Monday before joining EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

23 Oct 2009 - - Times - David Miliband touted for EU foreign post as Blair’s chances wane

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:35:34 GMT

Speculation will be fuelled by a keynote speech on the future of the EU under the Lisbon treaty that Mr Miliband is due to give on Monday. The Times understands that he will set out a detailed vision for what the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy — the long-winded title that many in Brussels openly refer to as EU foreign minister — should do.

Strategic Comments Volume 15 - Issue 8

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:21:16 GMT

Volume 15, Issue 8 of Strategic Comments, the Institute's online journal, has just been published. The first article, Signs of Myanmar's emergence from diplomatic isolation, is free to all readers, while the remaining four - Obama's new missile-defence strategy, Long wait for EU reform ends, The Iranian nuclear crisis and China's military might on display - are accessible to IISS members or Strategic Comments subscribers. A pay-per-view facility is also available. The charge for each article is £5

21 Oct 2009 - - Los Angeles Times - U.S., Iran move closer to nuclear deal

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:30:42 GMT

"I think that [President] Obama and his European allies have played their hand well in using the Qom revelation to their advantage and taking advantage of Iran's various vulnerabilities to encourage it to find a way forward," said Mark Fitzpatrick, a nonproliferation expert and former U.S. diplomat now at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "The major powers have done this in a way that gives Iran a face-saving way to make some concessions."

21 Oct 2009 - - Los Angeles Times - Iran, world powers agree to draft deal on uranium

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:57:12 GMT

"It's a big risk for Obama because the deal implicitly accepts Iran's right to enrichment," said Mark Fitzpatrick, a nonproliferation specialist and former U.S. diplomat at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "And it delays the sanctions that are seen as part of the key to an ultimate solution."

15 Oct 2009 - - Associated Press - Britain's Brown pledges more Afghanistan troops

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:34:24 GMT

Retired Col. Christopher Langton, a senior fellow at The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said it is extremely unlikely that Brown will ultimately decide to cancel the deployment even if the conditions he demanded are not met, in part because Brown has said he is responding to requests from senior military advisers.

15 Oct 2009 - - Reuters - Pakistan spies stoke violence - Afghan advisor

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:32:07 GMT

"The intelligence community in Washington and London agree (with the allegations) but they are not in a position to make policy," said Moradian, speaking on the sidelines of a seminar at Britain's International Institute for Strategic Studies.

13 Oct 2009 - - Financial Times - France opens way for ship sale to Moscow

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:53:11 GMT

But Jason Alderwick, a naval analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said the Mistral class was a “specialist military vessel” with sophisticated machinery for aircraft decks, disembarking forces and aviation support which the Russians do not have. A Mistral-class ship can carry up to 16 helicopters, 900 troops and 13 battle tanks.

13 Oct 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Somalia's Shebab radicalising Western youths: expert

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:05:07 GMT

Pantucci, a consulting research associate at the UK-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, said Shebab was reaching out to Somalis as far afield as Sweden and Canada. "At this stage it would seem unlikely that al-Shabaab (Shebab) would attack the West," Pantucci wrote. "What is clear, however, is that we are likely to see an increase in Westernised Muslims appearing on the battlefield in Somalia," he added.

12 Oct 2009 - - Foreign Policy - The Safe Haven Myth

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:17:07 GMT

At the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London earlier this month, Gen. Stanley McChrystal admonished an audience of listeners to question "generally accepted, 'bumper sticker' truths" about Afghanistan. As U.S. President Barack Obama and his advisors decide on the best way to proceed with the war, they might want to reconsider one in particular: safe havens.

Building Peace After War

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:38:47 GMT

Mats Berdal The widespread practice of intervention by outside actors aimed at building 'sustainable peace' within societies ravaged by war has been a striking feature of the post-Cold War era. But, at a time when more peacekeepers are deployed around the world than at any other point in history, is the international will to intervene beginning to wane? And how capable are the systems that exist for planning and deploying 'peacebuilding' missions of fulfilling the increasingly complex tasks set for them?

12 Oct 2009 - - Daily news and Analysis - For Obama, India isn't special

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:58:30 GMT

The difficulty is that policymakers in New Delhi seem to be unsure of what they want and how to get it. Says Rahul Roy-Chaudhary, senior fellow at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, "The world is changing rapidly. We have to raise our game and build our leverages so that we can move beyond the parapet of South Asia."

11 Oct 2009 - - Japan Times - ASEAN response to nuclear risks

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:49:04 GMT

By Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

10 Oct 2009 - - Newsweek - Let Generals Speak Their Minds

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:59:07 GMT

In politics and in war, truth can be elusive; often all we can do is muddle through, trying to make the best of things. McChrystal knows better than anyone the complexities of what he faces, and if you read the whole speech he delivered in London you see that he was at pains to make the difficulties at hand as clear as possible.

09 Oct 2009 - - Time - Why Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Could Hurt Obama

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:42:45 GMT

And now Obama is the Nobel Peace Prize winner. "Frankly, it seems premature when he hasn't been in office even a year yet and has not yet actually achieved the goals he set out — although he certainly has made some very noteworthy efforts," says Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for nonproliferation at the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies. "I think he will be embarrassed by it, and it will be unhelpful in the domestic milieu."

09 Oct 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Obama's speedy Nobel prize could rebound: analysts

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:25:12 GMT

Crowning a man who has only been in power for 10 months could leave him open to criticism, according to Dana Allin, Senior Fellow for US foreign policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

09 Oct 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - Barack Obama 'surprised and humbled' by Nobel Peace Prize

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:34:10 GMT

Dana Allin, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said: “Even for people who are generally supportive of Obama and what he is trying to achieve, this is going to be very easily parodied.”

09 Oct 2009 - - New York Times - Iranian Site Reports a Death Sentence for Protester

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:48:43 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based research group focused on international security, said he saw the severe sentence as another effort by the government to ward off any return to the protests and unrest that shook the country after the elections. While the government succeeded in ending street protests, students returning for the school year have protested at universities around the country. One of the most respected experts on Iran’

08 Oct 2009 - - Fox News - Iran Nuclear Developments Broken Down

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:06:38 GMT

So, is alarm or relief in order? Even the most seasoned observers of this story may have a hard time deciphering where it all stands. One of the most respected experts on Iran’s nuclear program, Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, gave some answers today—or at least put developments in perspective.

07 Oct 2009 - - Wall St Journal - Obama and the General

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:39:31 GMT

Then Gen. McChrystal gave a speech last Thursday before the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London. It was scheduled and approved by the Pentagon weeks before the Afghan political jitters seized official Washington. The General was hardly incendiary.

07 Oct 2009 - - Washington Post - A General Within Bounds

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:40:36 GMT

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has come under fire for making public comments about the war. While answering questions after an Oct. 1 speech -- in which he avoided taking sides in the policy debate -- McChrystal challenged a popular alternative to the approach that President Obama sent him to Afghanistan to pursue. An op-ed on this page Saturday argued that a battlefield commander should not get ahead of his president in public. Next, national security adviser James L. Jones fa

07 Oct 2009 - - Independent - Kim all smiles as he offers US a nuclear olive branch

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:43:19 GMT

"I am sceptical," commented Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "I do not think that North Korea wants to give up its nuclear weapons. The North might even want the US to accept it as a nuclear state."

07 Oct 2009 - - Times - President Obama tries to heal rifts over war strategy in Afghanistan

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:22:07 GMT

In that speech, General Stanley McChrystal had said that significantly more troops were needed in Afghanistan to execute the counter-insurgency strategy launched by Mr Obama in March. He dismissed the narrower, counter-terrorism approach now being advocated internally by officials such as Vice-President Joe Biden as “short-sighted”.

06 Oct 2009 - - United Press International - Obama calls the Afghan shots, Gates says

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:34:49 GMT

U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander for Afghanistan, caused a stir with his comments on Afghanistan delivered last week at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. During that speech, McChrystal tacitly undermined recommendations for a drone-based mission in Afghanistan, a strategy that runs counter to the general's push for a ground-based offensive.

06 Oct 2009 - - Slate - Insubordination?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:43:57 GMT

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. commander in Afghanistan, set off the rumbles of a political storm last week by saying publicly, during a speech in London, that a more limited strategy than the one he's proposing would lead to failure in the war against the Taliban.

06 Oct 2009 - - New York Times - The General Has Spoken

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:13:29 GMT

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal gave a speech last Thursday in London in which he discussed the state of the war in Afghanistan, for which he has requested up to 40,000 more troops, and counseled against a “more narrowly focused war,” as some in the administration, most notably Vice President Joe Biden, have advocated.

06 Oct 2009 - - Washington Post - Out of Line on Afghanistan

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:46 GMT

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is entitled to his opinion about the best way forward. But he has no business conducting a public campaign to build support for his preferred option, which is to send tens of thousands more troops into a country once called the "graveyard of empires."

06 Oct 2009 - - Washington Post - Critics Don't See the Nuance in McChrystal's Comments on War

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:29:03 GMT

"I'm certainly not going to circumvent any political leadership, because at the end of the day the political leadership are the people who I work for, and I'm proud to do that," McChrystal told the International Institute for Strategic Studies last Thursday. Once a decision on troop levels is made, he said, he will carry it out.

06 Oct 2009 - - Wall St Journal - Gates Silences Strategy Talk

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:28:49 GMT

Supporters of Gen. McChrystal have said that his address Thursday to the International Institute for Strategic Studies has been widely misinterpreted as an effort to press for an increase in troops when it was a restatement of the importance of a counterinsurgency -- a policy backed by Mr. Obama in March and one Gen. McChrystal has advocated in public comments repeatedly.

06 Oct 2009 - - Times - Yet again Tehran spins it all to its advantage against the West

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:18:22 GMT

"“Knowing that they’re liars and cheats doesn’t mean you can’t do a deal,” said Mark Fitzpatrick, an Iran nuclear specialist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think- tank in London. “It makes it all the more necessary to do a deal.” I’d put Fitzpatrick, a consistent advocate for diplomacy, on the optimistic side of the argument in reckoning that we might have a chance of a worthwhile deal.

06 Oct 2009 - - BBC News - Scepticism over N Korea's talks offer

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:23:56 GMT

In London, Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies doubted whether North Korea would change its behaviour significantly. "I am sceptical. I do not think that North Korea wants to give up its nuclear weapons. The North might even want the US to accept it as a nuclear state." He said: "Iraq is not a useful guide to the Iranian nuclear program. Close co-ordination with the IAEA dates back some time, and was significantly strengthened by the way in which the IAEA was gi

06 Oct 2009 - - Indpendent - Obama defence chief's rebuke on Afghan war

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:52:42 GMT

"I think that [General] McChrystal and the others in the chain of command will present the President with not just one option ... but a range of options that the President can consider. Troops are a portion of the answer but not the total answer." In his speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London last week, General McChrystal acknowledged that security in Afghanistan was not improving. "We need to reverse the current trends, and time does matter," he said. "Waiting does not pro

17 Sep 2009 - - Russia Profile - Quid Pro Quo?

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:18:56 GMT

Secondly, regardless of costs and development, the strategic value of the project was always questionable. “It wouldn’t cover the whole territory of Europe, and even from the American point of view the location was not ideal,” said Oksana Antonenko of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. According to Antonenko, the strategic debate has already shifted to installing systems closer to Iran. “Israel, or possibly Turkey …there are areas where missile systems with existing capabilities would make m

17 Sep 2009 - - United Press International - Loss of leader seen to hit al-Qaida hard

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:25:22 GMT

Nigel Inkster of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, a former deputy director of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, commented: "It's a lot harder for al-Qaida Central to continue to orchestrate a coherent suite of operations against Western targets."

16 Sep 2009 - - Times - Israel will attack a nuclear Iran, International Institute for Strategic Studies says

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:45:53 GMT

If Iran gets nuclear weapons, Israel will make a military attack on it. That was the most dramatic pronouncement from the launch of the strategic survey from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), its annual stocktaking of the world’s problems.

16 Sep 2009 - - Guardian - US forced to seek regional alliances as its power wanes, says thinktank

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:45:47 GMT

The election of Barack Obama and America's declining economic power and authority are forcing the US to seek regional alliances to cope with world crises, a leading thinktank said today. The Obama administration has recognised this in Afghanistan, where it said Pakistan was the key, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said. But the US should engage regional powers elsewhere, including the Middle East, over the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, and in Afghanistan.

16 Sep 2009 - Asian News International - British troops far from defeating Taliban, says Brit Defence Secretary

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:09:06 GMT

A leading thinktank warned earlier that the presence of large numbers of foreign troops in Afghanistan made it harder to achieve a political settlement to the conflict. The International Institute for Strategic Studies said western forces in Afghanistan needed a “more cunning” strategy if they were to achieve their aims.

16 Sep 2009 - - Times - President Obama's top military adviser exposes Afghanistan rifts

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:12:29 GMT

The argument was echoed in London by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which warned that the continued presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan could be more destabilising than withdrawal.

16 Sep 2009 - - Daily Times (Pakistan) - Pakistan blamed for Afghan insecurity

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:15:59 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said Pakistan had become the “key battleground” for Al Qaeda-linked fighters who fled Afghanistan in 2001, AFP reported. “It is clear that Pakistan has become the key battleground in Al Qaeda’s efforts to establish a base area to replace the one lost in Afghanistan,” it said in its annual report.

16 Sep 2009 - - China Daily - US needs Afghan plan with regional players: Experts

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:19:56 GMT

United States needs a more cunning strategy on Afghanistan, with Russia, Iran, China and others brought into the policy debate if it is to achieve long-term success, a leading think-tank said yesterday.

16 Sep 2009 - - Gulf Daily News - US 'still a power to reckon with'

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:25:46 GMT

US was dealt a blow by the financial crisis but remains the world's main power and can maintain its influence if it works with allies to achieve its goals, a study said yesterday. A report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think-tank in London said that despite taking an economic hit, the downturn has highlighted how other states look to Washington for their lead.

15 Sep 2009 - - Le Temps - Le président Barack Obama est malgré lui un stratège à temps partiel

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:22:34 GMT

Trois cents jours après l’élection de Barack Obama, les efforts du président des Etats Unis pour relancer les divers dossiers de politique étrangère dont il a hérité se heurtent à une série d’obstacles. Zbigniew Brzezinski, l’ancien conseiller de Jimmy Carter, qui a également participé à la campagne d’Obama, s’en est expliqué à l’ouverture de l’Examen stratégique mondial organisé chaque année à Genève par l’Institut international d’études stratégiques de Londres (IISS).

15 Sep 2009 - - Zee News - 'Pak N-weapons falling into Taliban hands premature'

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:24:03 GMT

International worries over Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into the hands of the Taliban appeared premature, a leading London-based think tank said on Tuesday.

15 Sep 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Crisis-weakened US embraces 'mini-lateralism': study

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:25:52 GMT

The United States was dealt a major blow by the world financial crisis but can maintain its global influence if it works more cooperatively with other countries, a British study said Tuesday. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said President Barack Obama is already pursuing a strategy of "mini-lateralism" -- in contrast to the perceived unilateralism of his predecessor, but short of full-blooded UN-style multilateralism.

15 Sep 2009 - - PRESS TV (Iran) - Think tank says financial crisis changing US attitude

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:27:49 GMT

The financial crisis prompted the White House to reevaluate its relations with powers around the globe and cooperate more closely with its allies, a prestigious think tank says. In the wake of the economic meltdown, US President Barack Obama admitted that the United States was not totally free to impose its will on the rest of the world.

15 Sep 2009 - - BBC News - US foreign policy: 'No we can't'?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:30:46 GMT

The phrases are used in the latest edition of the annual Strategic Survey, issued by the London think tank the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). In analysing how a "weakened" United States should lower its sights and try to form regional groupings to help it, the IISS Director General Dr John Chipman said: "Domestically, [President] Obama may have campaigned on the theme 'yes we can'; internationally he may increasingly have to argue 'no we can't'".

15 Sep 2009 - - ITN - 'Cunning' needed to beat Taliban

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:34:08 GMT

Coalition forces need a "more cunning" strategy if they are to win in Afghanistan, a leading think-tank has warned. The International Institute for Strategic Studies said the Western powers need to make clear they are not seeking to "garrison" the country, and the current troop "surge" should not become a permanent military presence.

15 Sep 2009 - - CBS News - British Think-Tank: U.S. Power Fading

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:35:07 GMT

weakened United States could start retreating from the world stage without help from its allies abroad, an international strategic affairs think-tank said Tuesday. The respected London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said President Barack Obama will increasingly have to turn to others for help dealing with the world's problems - in part because he has no alternative.

15 Sep 2009 - - Associated Press - No we can't - UK think tank says US power fading

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:37:01 GMT

A weakened United States could start retreating from the world stage without help from its allies abroad, an international strategic affairs think tank said Tuesday. The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said President Barack Obama would increasingly turn to others for help dealing with the world's problems — in part because he has no alternative.

15 Sep 2009 - - Radio France Internationale - US military chief thinks more troops required for Afghanistan

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:39:15 GMT

US President Barack Obama's military chief said Tuesday that winning the war in Afghanistan will "probably" require sending more US troops there and thousands more trainers for Afghan forces, Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The London-based think-tank the International Institute of Strategic Studies disagrees. A report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think-tank in London said that despite taking an economic hit, the downturn has highlighted how

15 Sep 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - The ghost of Donald Rumsfeld lives on in this year's Strategic Survey

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:45:03 GMT

Now it appears Mr Rumsfeld’s philosophy has been adopted by Britain’s leading think tank on resolving international conflict. Paraphrasing Mr Rumsfeld, Dr Chipman talks of the need to create “coalitions of the relevant”, where Washington seeks to bring together the best number of relevant states to address a particular issue.

15 Sep 2009 - - Reuters - U.S. needs shrewder Afghan strategy, say experts

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:30:15 GMT

Launching its annual review of world affairs, the International Institute for Strategic Studies argued that, amid declining public support for the war in both the United States and Europe, more combat troops on the ground coupled with aid and political reform was not a sufficient strategy. "A more cunning regional strategy is also necessary," John Chipman, the head of the IISS, said at the unveiling of the 2009 Strategic Survey in London.

15 Sep 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Pakistan causing Afghan insecurity: study

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:31:58 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said Pakistan had become the "key battleground" for Al-Qaeda-linked fighters who fled the US-led invasion in 2001 that ousted the Taliban from power. "Pakistan remained the biggest source of instability for Afghanistan," it said in its annual review report.

15 Sep 2009 - - Guardian - Troops far from winning in Afghanistan, admits defence secretary

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:37:35 GMT

Earlier, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), said western powers fighting in Afghanistan needed to develop a "more cunning" strategy if they were to succeed in achieving their aims. It said that the coalition needed to make clear that it was not seeking to "garrison" the country and that the current troop "surge" should not become a permanent military presence.

15 Sep 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - US and Britain 'must avoid pitfalls of broad campaign' in Afghanistan

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:45:23 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies said the growing influence of fanatical Taliban-style groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan has thrown into doubt the value of an expanding war effort. Dr John Chipman, director of the London-based think tank, said al-Qaeda's role in Pakistan now loomed larger than battles in Afghanistan.

15 Sep 2009 - - Christian Science Monitor - Europeans set low expectations for Iran talks

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:19:38 GMT

"The headline in Tehran is that 'Iran won,'" argues Mamoun Fandy of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "They see themselves talking from a position of strength not weakness." That strength, analysts say, runs in numerous directions. Iran believes Russia and China are not strongly in the American or European camp, even though Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday he did not rule out fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. There is also deep skepticism

15 Sep 2009 - - Los Angeles Times - Iran, world powers to hold nuclear talks in October

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:02:14 GMT

President Obama is "being consistent with what he has been saying for over a year," said Mark Fitzpatrick, a former State Department arms control expert now at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. "He's willing to meet with the enemies as well as friends without preconditions."

14 Sep 2009 - - Reuters - Afghan exit seen worsening risks to region, West

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:15:49 GMT

Former British High Commissioner in Pakistan Hilary Synnott, speaking at a weekend meeting of strategists in Geneva hosted by Britain's International Institute for Strategic Studies, said critics of Western strategy had to consider "the very great consequences of perceived American defeat".

14 Sep 2009 - - New York Times - A Somber Warning on Afghanistan

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:20:45 GMT

In a speech opening a weekend gathering of military and foreign policy experts, Mr. Brzezinski, who was national security adviser when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in late 1979, endorsed a British and German call, backed by France, for a new international conference on the country. He also set the tone for a weekend of somber assessments of the situation.

14 Sep 2009 - - KUNA - IISS US chief says there is room to achive Mideast peace

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:38:24 GMT

Talking to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) at the conclusion of the annual IISS meeting in Geneva, Parasiliti said that there is hope for peace in the Middle East because the Obama administration has come in and given this topic a great deal of urgency. "The intention of the Obama administration seems to be to give the Middle East the strategic priority that it merits, obviously these issues are not resolved easily nor fast, but looking at the past six months one can say that the administration has given t

13 Sep 2009 - - Jerusalem Post - 'Iran won't discuss its nuclear rights'

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:42:44 GMT

Iran could be dissuaded from its nuclear course, but the time constraints were severe, Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor, who is a member of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's inner cabinet, said on Friday. "If there is enough political and economic action put together, there is a good chance that Iran will listen to reason. I don't think they are irrational," Meridor said. But, he cautioned, the Islamic republic was already "not very far away" from being able to construct nuclear weapons.

13 Sep 2009 - - Observer - How Islamists track and kill Iraq's gays

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:11:46 GMT

Dr Toby Dodge, of London University's Queen Mary College, believes that the violence may be a conse-quence of the success of the government of Nouri al-Maliki. "Militia groups whose raison d'etre was security in their communities are seeing that function now fulfilled by the police. So their focus has shifted to the moral and cultural sphere, reverting to classic Islamist tactics of policing moral boundaries," Dodge said.

13 Sep 2009 - - Haaretz - Tehran is wasting time

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:55:59 GMT

Meanwhile, Israel is being careful with its words. The minister charged with the intelligence portfolio, Dan Meridor, told Reuters late last week that "there is not much time to waste," while emphasizing the Iranian nuclear program is a global problem, and that he was not necessarily referring to a military option.

12 Sep 2009 - - BBC News - Afghan pull-out 'not an option'

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:02:25 GMT

It is simply not an option for Britain or any other Nato country to pull out of Afghanistan while the US remains committed, a senior diplomat has said. Britain's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Sherard Cowper-Coles was speaking at a conference in Geneva.

12 Sep 2009 - - Reuters - Netanyahu visited Russia - Israeli deputy PM

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:05:34 GMT

"He was in Russia. It created some controversy about the way it was published in Israel," Dan Meridor told Reuters in Geneva on the sidelines of a conference about global issues hosted by Britain's International Institute for Strategic Studies.

12 Sep 2009 - - BBC News - US 'risks Afghan Soviet failure'

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:13:46 GMT

"In my view, we in fact are running the risk of replicating, obviously unintentionally, what happened to the Soviets," he said during the conference, organised by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

12 Sep 2009 - - Press TV (Iran) - Brzezinski warns of Soviet 'failure' in Afghanistan

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:01:11 GMT

In a speech at a global strategy conference in Geneva, Zbigniew Brzezinski said the West risks replicating the Soviet Union in Afghanistan without a fundamental change in policy, the BBC reported. "In my view, we are in fact running the risk of replicating, obviously unintentionally, what happened to the Soviets," he said during the conference.

12 Sep 2009 - - Associated Press - British official: Remain committed to Afghanistan

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:13:45 GMT

Britain's special representative to Afghanistan says he remains committed to help bringing peace to Afghanistan but the country needs long-term funding from all nations involved. Sherard Cowper-Coles says the international community needs no new strategy for Afghanistan.

12 Sep 2009 - - Canadian Press - British official urges more funding for Afghanistan, says no new strategy needed

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:22:34 GMT

Britain has come under increasing pressure from voters demanding its troops pull out of Afghanistan. But Cowper-Coles says ''while Obama remains committed, we remain committed.'' He spoke at a conference of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies in Geneva Satur-day.

12 Sep 2009 - - Press Association - Britain 'committed to Afghanistan'

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:09:37 GMT

Britain's special representative to Afghanistan said he remains committed to help bringing peace to Afghanistan but the country needs long-term funding from all nations involved.

12 Sep 2009 - - KUNA - Palestinian FM urges radical approach for Mideast peace

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:11:55 GMT

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Al-Malki urged on Saturday for a radical new approach to peace in the Middle East, and that the US would embrace such an approach by embracing old approaches and UN resolutions including 181. Al-Malki was speaking at the morning plenary of the International Institute for Strategic Studies' annual conference. Al-Malki was speaking at the morning plenary of the International Institute for Strategic Studies' annual conference.

12 Sep 2009 - - Fox News - 'Missing' Netanyahu Made Secret Trip to Russia

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:10:23 GMT

"He was in Russia. It created some controversy about the way it was published in Israel," Dan Meridor told Reuters while in Geneva for an international conference.

12 Sep 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Afghanistan needs 'unshakeable' financing commitment: envoy

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:11:52 GMT

Sherard Cowper-Coles, who is Britain's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, told a forum on geopolitical issues in Geneva that a prerequisite for success in Afghanistan is enduring long-term commitment... not in terms of combat troops on the ground."

12 Sep 2009 - - Reuters - Pressure can alter Iran nuke goals - Israel official

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:27:26 GMT

"I don't want to go into details but they are going in that direction...It's not in the distant future," he said, speaking on the sidelines of a conference about global issues hosted by Britain's International Institute for Strategic Studies.

12 Sep 2009 - - Reuters - Israel: ''Time is now'' for all to act on Iran

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:31:02 GMT

Following are excerpts from an interview with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor, who is also Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, about the Iranian nuclear dispute.

12 Sep 2009 - - Jerusalem Post - Deputy PM: Netanyahu visited Russia

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:36:41 GMT

Intelligence Affairs Minister Dan Meridor on Saturday confirmed that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu secretly visited Russia on Monday.

12 Sep 2009 - - Jerusalem Post - Meridor: 'The clock is ticking' on Iran

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:39:39 GMT

Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor on Saturday urged immediate action on the Iranian nuclear threat, during an interview with Reuters. "The clock is ticking," he warned, adding, "If there is enough political and economic action put together, there is a good chance that Iran will listen to reason. I don't think they are irrational."

12 Sep 2009 - - VOA News - US Aims to Focus on Nuclear Issue in Iran Talks

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:45:59 GMT

Meanwhile, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor says "the clock is ticking" for getting Iran to halt nuclear projects with bomb-making potential.

11 Sep 2009 - - Radio Free Europe - Expert Says Further Sanctions On Iran Could Be Effective

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:57:20 GMT

Interview with Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

11 Sep 2009 - - IISS Press Release - Global Strategic Review Opens

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:58:58 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) opened the 7th IISS Global Strategic Review this evening with some 350 government officials, academics, foreign policy experts and IISS Members. During the opening Keynote Address, Dr Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former US National Security Advisor; delivered an impressive and comprehensive speech regarding the issues that President Obama faces in the current global geopolitical climate.

11 Sep 2009 - - Agence Télégraphique Suisse - L'Américain Brzezinski met en garde contre le risque d'enlisement

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:39:33 GMT

L'Afghanistan et le Pakistan sont les théâtres où "le besoin" d'une réforme stratégique est le plus important pour les Etats-Unis, a estimé M. Brzezinski dans un discours lors de la réunion annuelle à Genève de l'Institut international d'études stratégiques de Londres (IISS).

27 Jul 2009 - - Reuters - Lack of Afghan troops hamstrings NATO efforts

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:26:53 GMT

"The security forces of Afghanistan still lack some critical capacity, especially the police," Colonel Christopher Langton, a military expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, told Reuters. "Once we have cleared and hold the ground, the aim must be that international forces can move on and allow Afghan national security forces to continue to hold while building is done. The Afghan army's capacity at the moment is not sufficient for that."

27 Jul 2009 - - Christian Science Monitor - Short-lived cease-fire with Taliban dims prospects for broader deals

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:41:50 GMT

Badghis is "a fairly natural target for negotiation because of its separation from the Pashtun heartlands of southern Afghanistan where the Afghan Taliban have most of their hardcore support," says Col. (ret.) Christopher Langton, an Afghanistan expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

27 Jul 2009 - - EurActiv - The UK Tories' European policy: The road to oblivion

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:43:45 GMT

The tone of UK Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague's 21 July speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London "takes us back to Winston Churchill's image of Britain at the centre of three concentric circles: transatlantic, Commonwealth and European - a world that no longer exists," writes Stanley Crossick, founder of the European Policy Centre, in a July post on Blogactiv.

27 Jul 2009 - - Business Line - Mischief in cyberspace

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:19:03 GMT

It is also the assessment of Andrew Brooks of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London, that countries such as Iran and North Korea are now making huge investments in trying to equip themselves for a cyber war. The US President, Barack Obama’s recent decision to appoint a Cyber Czar in the White House also strengthens the country’s preparedness to meet challenges on this front and should be viewed in the context of the July attacks on the US and South Korea.

24 Jul 2009 - - Associated Press - Rising casualties raise doubts abroad on war

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:55:25 GMT

Christopher Langton, senior fellow at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, said he saw an "underlying resilience level of support" for the war among voters in U.S. allies with troops in Afghanistan but that may not include backing for a high level of combat operations.

24 Jul 2009 - - Heritage Foundation - Will Britain Chose “Strategic Shrinkage”?

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:20:28 GMT

In an important speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies this week, William Hague, the Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary, explicitly rejected what he described as “strategic shrinkage.” Hague said that Britain must “seek to retain her influence wherever possible and, in some places, seek to extend it,” adding that “we must not disconsolately cease to make the effort.” This is the right vision for Britain, for the U.S., and for NATO. The only problem is that Britain’s current 35 billio

23 Jul 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - Are the Tories ready to pay to keep Britain a power in the world?

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:34:28 GMT

William Hague, who could be foreign secretary in less than a year, has given an emphatic answer to the question of Britain's future role. In a closely argued, 7,000-word speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies this week, he explicitly rejected "strategic shrinkage" along the lines of the "East of Suez" decision.

23 Jul 2009 - - Forbes - What Indonesia Has To Fear

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:28:43 GMT

By Tim Huxley, Executive Director, IISS-Asia;

22 Jul 2009 - - Blogactiv - The British Conservatives’ European policy: the road to oblivion

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:00:26 GMT

‘Shadow’ Foreign Minister William Hague’s speech yesterday to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, seems not to have been influenced by the débacle marking the first stage of the new Conservative policy towards Europe.

22 Jul 2009 - - NPR - Obama Draws Criticism For Iran Response

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:05:36 GMT

KELLY: But Andrew Parasiliti of the International Institute for Strategic Studies says Senator Graham and other critics are missing the point. Dr. ANDREW PARASILITI (International Institute for Strategic Studies): The U.S. hand in Iran is limited. This is an Iranian crisis. There's really very little we can do to influence events there.

22 Jul 2009 - - EurActiv - Tories see reduced EU role for Britain

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:15:46 GMT

In a speech setting out Conservative foreign policy aims, Hague said Britain should strengthen its alliance with Commonwealth allies such as India and reduce its involvement with Europe and the United States.

22 Jul 2009 - - Scotsman - State debt soars after borrowing a record £5,000 every second

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:28:35 GMT

In a speech on the future of British foreign policy, Mr Hague said: "One of the damaging effects of Gordon Brown's catastrophic stewardship of Britain's finances, and of additionally reducing Britain from second to twelfth place in the international league of competitiveness according to the World Economic Forum, is the diminishing of our economic power and by extension the effectiveness of our international role."

22 Jul 2009 - - Press Association - Hague warns Britain risks losing global authority

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:27:41 GMT

Mr Hague, in a speech to the Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said: “Britain stands to lose a good deal of its ability to shape world affairs unless we decide we will not accept that and are prepared to do what is needed.” He went on: “One of the damaging effects of Gordon Brown’s catastrophic stewardship of Britain’s finances is the diminishing of our economic power and by extension the effectiveness of our international role.

22 Jul 2009 - - Financial Times - UK opposition plans to downgrade EU ties

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:39:28 GMT

Addressing the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, he said a Conservative government would be "solid but not slavish" in relations with the US, but otherwise said the transatlantic alliance was "indispensable to the United Kingdom". He said relations with the British Commonwealth - which includes India and South Africa - had been "neglected and undervalued" under Britain's Labour government, adding that the Commonwealth was "a tool to be picked up and used more often" in British fore

22 Jul 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - William Hague: we won't shrink from tough defence decisions

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:55:32 GMT

Mr Hague in a speech yesterday made it clear that the Tories would look hard at how money can be saved and the armed forces adapted in the current economic climate.

22 Jul 2009 - - Global Security Newswire - U.S. Could Extend ''Defense Umbrella'' Against Iran, Clinton Warns

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:08:57 GMT

Iran's contested presidential election last month might force Tehran to make nuclear concessions to outside powers, said Mark Fitzpatrick, a former State Department official now with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

22 Jul 2009 - - Times - William Hague strikes a realistic tone on Britain’s place in the world

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:02:46 GMT

William Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, largely avoided those traps yesterday in his best speech to date on the Conservatives’ foreign policy, delivered at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

21 Jul 2009 - - Politics.co.uk - Hague blames Brown for diminished UK voice

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:12:46 GMT

In a major speech on the Conservative party's foreign policy plans the shadow foreign secretary linked Gordon Brown's handling of the economy with Britain's diminishing influence overseas. "Economic success makes a big difference to foreign policy influence and sometimes quite quickly so," he told an audience at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in central London.

21 Jul 2009 - - Guardian - National interest would dominate Tory foreign policy, says Hague

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:26:17 GMT

Hague's speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies was billed last night as the Tory leadership's most significant overview of its approach to foreign policy as it prepares for government. Hague aims to show that a Conservative government would uphold its commitments to human rights but would ensure that it pursues what aides described as "realpolitik" in foreign affairs.

21 Jul 2009 - - Reuters - Conservatives see less interventionist UK role

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:46:18 GMT

"As a nation we will have to accustom ourselves to there being more situations which we dislike but cannot directly change," Hague, who is likely to become foreign minister in any Conservative government, will say in a speech in London. "But it is our contention that Britain must seek to retain her influence wherever possible and in some places seek to extend it."

21 Jul 09 - - Wall St Journal - UAE Nuclear Energy Push May Start Gulf Contract Bonanza

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:51:53 GMT

Ben Rhode, a research analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said while nuclear companies have a strong commercial interest in the U.A.E.'s nuclear power program, political security and business interests don't necessarily clash.

21 Jul 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - William Hague: Gordon Brown's economic mismanagement threatens Britain's standing in world

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:59:29 GMT

Mr Hague will go on to reject the assumption that the United Kingdom's influence will inevitably decline over the coming decades. He will tell the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London: "Looking a decade or two ahead, powerful forces of economics and demography elsewhere in the world will make it harder for us to maintain our influence.

21 Jul 2009 - - Financial Times - Tories’ views on Europe dismay diplomats

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:53:23 GMT

In a keynote address on the Conservatives’ foreign policy prospectus, William Hague said his party envisaged forging close relations with the US, the Commonwealth, China and Russia in a bid to promote Britain’s role on the world stage. He said relations with the British Commonwealth - which includes India and South Africa - had been "neglected and undervalued" under Britain's Labour government, adding that the Commonwealth was "a tool to be picked up and used more often" in British fore

21 Jul 2009 - - Guardian - Do the Tories have a real foreign policy?

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:14:07 GMT

21 Jul 2009 - - Guardian - The Tories' path to disaster

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:24:54 GMT

But today's Tories? William Hague has outlined a doctrine of neo-realism, but its core content seems suspiciously like the foreign policy of the John Major years – with the coddling of petty tyrants like Slobodan Milosevic, ending in the Srebrenica massacres, combined with a willingness to promote the "national interest" ending in the Pergau Dam or Matrix-Churchill scandals.

21 Jul 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Tories lay out pragmatic foreign policy

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:40:59 GMT

"As a nation we will have to accustom ourselves to there being more situations which we dislike but cannot directly change," foreign affairs spokesman William Hague said in a keynote speech in London. "But it is our contention that Britain must seek to retain her influence wherever possible and in some places seek to extend it."

21 Jul 2009 - - Daily Mail - Manpower shortages hitting our war effort, by the MoD

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:02:06 GMT

In a speech today, Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague will urge the Government to establish more 'tightly drawn' goals for Afghanistan and for ministers to review progress and report to Parliament more frequently Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201043/Manpower-shortages-hitting-war-effort-MoD.html#ixzz0LzmvQJSg "But it is our contention that Britain must seek to retain her influence wherever possible and in some places seek to extend it."

21 Jul 2009 - - United Press International - West gains advantage in Iranian nuke talks

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:32:39 GMT

Fitzpatrick, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says Iran lost some of its influence in the post-election fallout, leaving Western negotiators in a position of relative strength.

William Hague Address (Jul 09)

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:13:49 GMT

On Tuesday 21 July 2009 The Rt Hon William Hague, MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, delivered an address to the IISS on "The Future of British Foreign Policy with a Conservative Government”.

20 Jul 2009 - - Council on Foreign Relations - Negotiating With a Troubled Iran

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:31:25 GMT

Interview with Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

17 Jul 2009 - - NBC Nightly News - Jakarta Bombings point to Islamic Terrorist Group

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:24:59 GMT

Eight Americans were among those injured in a suicide bomb blast that killed eight people at the American Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta on Friday. NBC's Ian Williams reports.

17 Jul 2009 - - Russia Profile - Evolutionary Road

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:35:18 GMT

By Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow (Russia and Eurasia)

17 Jul 2009 - - Global Security Newswire - India, Pakistan Pledge to Resume Peace Talks

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:29:19 GMT

"The threat is exaggerated quite a bit," said Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, an analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Although "there is a concern that extremists may be able to infiltrate into the nuclear command and control authority," Pakistan's military "is very aware of this, it knows a threat exists, they are not in a state of denial," he said.

16 Jul 2009 - - Financial Times - Look to Anglo-French defence savings

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:27:26 GMT

By Alexander Nicoll, Director of Editorial

16 Jul 2009 - - Global Security Newswire - Iranian Election Seen Undermining U.S. Attempts at Outreach

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:32:55 GMT

“It’s much harder for any engagement strategy to be successful" in the wake of the repressed protests, said Mark Fitzpatrick, a former U.S. diplomat now with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

16 Jul 2009 - - RIA Novosti - Danger of Taliban Pakistan takeover exaggerated by West - analyst

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:21:36 GMT

"I think the threat is exaggerated quite a bit," International Institute for Strategic Studies South Asia analyst Rahul Roy-Chaudhury said. "Pakistan is not anywhere near a failed state. There is a lot of resilience in the people. Pakistan is a united state." The Taliban's advance was met by a fierce reaction from the Pakistani army, which has advanced into the militants' Swat Valley stronghold, and Roy-Chaudhury said the campaign has proved that, "The Pakistani military can and will act when it knows it

16 Jul 2009 - - Bloomberg - Iran Spurns Engagement on Nuclear, Thwarting Obama

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:26:08 GMT

“It’s much harder for any engagement strategy to be successful” in the post-election atmosphere, said former U.S. diplomat Mark Fitzpatrick, who now heads the non-proliferation program at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

15 Jul 2009 - - Reuters - Germany's BND denies report on Iran bomb timing

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:33:55 GMT

"(Six months) is absolutely a worst-case analysis," said Mark Fitzpatrick, senior non-proliferation fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. He said that while it might be plausible in theory that Iran could further enrich uranium in a large enough quantity for a bomb as well as restarting the weapon design work it halted in 2003, these actions would not go unnoticed.

15 Jul 2009 - - Reuters - 10-year Chinook saga grounds Britain in Afghanistan

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:43:00 GMT

"If you gave the air force those eight Chinooks tomorrow, they couldn't do anything because there aren't the crews and maintenance teams to support them," said Andrew Brookes at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

15 July 2009 - - New Republic - The Bystander

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:09:21 GMT

By Nader Mousavizadeh, Consulting Senior Fellow

14 Jul 2009 - - South China Morning Post - Al-Qaeda 'vows to avenge Uygurs'

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:35:16 GMT

Nigel Inkster, an expert in transnational risk at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said he had not heard of the specific threat but it fitted with the group's recent actions. AQIM's recent attacks showed it was willing to serve the leadership's global agenda, as it sought support in the wider Muslim world, he said.

14 Jul 2009 - - Reuters - Russia says no Iran sanctions for START deal: report

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:58:01 GMT

Obama's special assistant for arms control, Gary Samore, made his comments about the potential for a change in Russia's stance at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies last week. "If we make concessions on strategic nuclear issues the Russians are much more willing to be cooperative when it comes to Iran," Samore told experts.

13 Jul 2009 - - Guardian - More troops needed, but Afghans must take fight to the Taliban, say experts

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:54:32 GMT

Col Christopher Langton, senior fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies:
The ideas are there but the difficulty is matching these ideas with the right type of effort, the right equipment and right skills. There is already a recognition of the lack of civilian capacity to help build Afghan institutions.

13 Jul 2009 - - Deutsche Welle - Fighting piracy militarily has mixed success so far

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:37:29 GMT

But without American logistical support Germany's elite troops were grounded. Jason Alderwick, a maritime defense analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, supports the stance taken by the US. "The German contribution is just part of a wider international coalition. So unilaterally deciding to storm a ship isn't necessarily the right approach."

10 Jul 2009 - - Financial Times - Listening to Obama’s nukes guy

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:20:21 GMT

Yesterday he was in London on his way back from the Moscow summit and he gave an on-the-record briefing at the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Naturally there are limits to how frank you can be in such a setting, but I still thought he had several interesting things to say:

10 Jul 2009 - - Financial Times - Washington to host nuclear talks

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:43:11 GMT

Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Mr Samore made clear the Washington summit would be focused on nuclear security and would be distinct from the more broad ranging nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) conference to be held two months later. At the NPT review conference, the US will want to ensure that there is a toughening of the rules to stop states that run civil nuclear energy programmes diversifying into atomic weapons production.

Gary Samore Address

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:17:06 GMT

On Thursday 9th July, Gary Samore, Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism, addresses the IISS on “The Obama Administration’s arms control and non-proliferation strategy”.

09 Jul 2009 - - Globe and Mail - North Korea could be behind hacking

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:40:01 GMT

Countries like Iran and North Korea, as well as terrorist groups, are devoting increasing amounts of resources to cyber and electronic warfare, said Andrew Brookes, a defence analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

09 Jul 2009 - - Associated Press - North Korea a suspect in cyber attacks in US

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:53:49 GMT

There is likely some collaboration between North Korea, Iran and others on cyber warfare technology, Brookes said, but added that the likeliest culprits in the attacks are small-scale computer hackers rather than hostile governments.

Strategic Comments Volume 15 - Issue 6

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:17:00 GMT

Volume 15, Issue 6 of Strategic Comments, the Institute's online journal, has just been published. The first article, Deadlock on climate change, is free to all readers, while the remaining four - Ethnic strife in Xinjiang, New impetus for test ban treaty, South Africa under Zuma and Election crisis in Moldova - are accessible to IISS members or Strategic Comments subscribers. A pay-per-view facility is also available. The charge for each article is £5

08 Jul 2009 - - Christian Science Monitor - What's behind cyber attacks on South Korea, US?

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:36:58 GMT

"Some of these missiles looked to have a real purpose, to demonstrate firing them all at once," says Mark Fitzpatrick, senior non-proliferation researcher at the Institute for International Strategic Studies in London. He notes, however, that the missile launches, including seven on July 4, "did not get much attention."

07 Jul 2009 - - Daily Express - Obama Hails Deal with Russia to Cut Back Nuclear Arms

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:44:24 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London said: “The cuts themselves are not that significant. “But it does get the ball rolling because arms control has been dead in the water for the last eight years. There’s now a prospect for further cuts in the upcoming years.”

31 May 2009 - - Agence France Presse - US will not accept nuclear-armed N Korea

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:01:34 GMT

Gates met with his counterparts from South Korea and Japan to discuss the nuclear issue on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual meeting organised by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. "We have pledged to craft a common response to such situations," South Korea's Lee Sang Hee said after the nearly hour-long meeting.

31 May 2009 - - BBC News - Sri Lanka rules out outside probe

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:35:56 GMT

But Mr Bogollagama, speaking during a summit of Asian defence ministers in Singapore, told Reuters: "Sri Lanka is a sovereign country with its own legal framework. "We have a very strong separation of powers (and) the judiciary is independent."

31 May 2009 - - The Hindu - U.S. sees India as security partner

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:05:46 GMT

The United States will “look to India to be a partner and a net provider of security in the Indian Ocean and beyond” in the coming years. Such a political preference was outlined by U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates at the eighth annual Asian Security Summit, being held here under the auspices of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

31 May 2009 - - The Hindu - India, China discuss anti-piracy cooperation

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:08:01 GMT

Spelling out the commitment, Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee Sureesh Mehta told an Asian Security Summit here that “we see the Indian Navy as a significant stabilising force in the Indian Ocean region.” The eighth annual summit is being held here under the auspices of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies

31 May 2009 - - Bloomberg - Gates Warns N. Korea on Nuclear Transfers as Russia, Japan Talk

Sat, 30 May 2009 20:27:01 GMT

Gates held talks with his counterparts from Japan and South Korea yesterday to coordinate their response to North Korea’s May 25 nuclear test and subsequent missile firings, marking the first time the military chiefs of the three countries had met jointly.

31 May 2009 - - Washington Times - Gates issues tough warning to N. Korea

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:21:19 GMT

In a closely watched speech before Asian defense ministers, military chiefs and diplomats five days after North Korea tested a nuclear device for the second time, Mr. Gates issued a tough warning to the reclusive state. "The choice to continue as a destitute, international pariah, or chart a new course, is North Korea's alone to make," Mr. Gates said. "The world is waiting."

31 May 2009 - - Sunday Telegraph - Leaders live in luxury while North Koreans starve to pay for nuclear bomb

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:25:56 GMT

In a speech in Singapore, he urged "tough sanctions" against Pyongyang and pledged that Washington would not accept its possession of a nuclear arsenal. Kim Jong-il's regime was, he said, starving its own people in order to develop weapons of mass destruction.

31 May 2009 - - New York Times - Pakistan Marches On in Bastion of Taliban

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:16:36 GMT

Defense Secretary Syed Athar Ali, who was speaking at a conference in Singapore, was quoted by Reuters as saying that “only 5 to 10 percent of the job is remaining” and that the pockets of resistance would be cleared in two to three days. Mr. Gates also told reporters that six-party talks between the United States, North Korea and other countries in the region had not worked so far.

31 May 2009 - - Xinhua News - Peace, cooperation issues dominate Asia Security Summit

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:43:19 GMT

The eighth Asia Security Summit, also known as the Shangri- La Dialogue, concluded here Sunday with de-fense ministers and senior officials from 27 countries calling for peaceful and cooperative solutions toward security challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region. Teo spoke at the 8th Asia Security Summit (Shangri- La Dialogue) that military transparency "is not an end in itself but a means to peace and stability," and it needs to operate at three levels, namely disclosure armaments and arsenals, stateme

31 May 2009 - - Sky News - US Warns N Korea Over Nuclear-Armed Weapons

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:48:57 GMT

The threat from North Korea, which this week detonated a nuclear device and launched a series of missiles, could start an arms race in Asia, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said in a speech to the Asia Security Conference in Singapore. "We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region or on us," he said.

31 May 2009 - - Sunday Business Post - Obama’s nuclear headache over Kim Jong-il tactics

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:37:21 GMT

A more overt, diplomatic effort is already under way. US defence secretary Robert Gates and a coterie of top advisers are scheduled to travel to Singapore this weekend for the so-called ‘Shangri-La Dialogue’, a regional security conference, at which North Korea will be central to the agenda. But it has also emerged that deputy secretary of state James Steinberg will lead a US delegation to the capitals of China, South Korea and Russia in the immediate aftermath of the conference. Defense officials and ex

31 May 2009 - - VOA News - Sri Lanka Defends Offensive Against Tamil Rebels

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:01:49 GMT

Minister of Foreign Affairs Rohitha Bogollagama told a gathering of security officials and experts in Singapore on Sunday that Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of human rights violations itself. Bogollagama said Sri Lanka is a sovereign nation with rule of law and an independent judiciary Gates was speaking in Singapore at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual meeting of Asian defense ministers and experts on the region. "We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak

31 May 2009 - - VOA News - Burma, Other Asian Nations Defend Security Actions

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:06:51 GMT

Burma has defended its prosecution of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at an Asian security summit in Singapore. Delegates to the summit have urged her release along with 2,000 other political prisoners in the military-ruled country. Sri Lanka and Pakistan also defended their own internal security measures at the summit. Aye Myint was speaking to Asian security officials and experts at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.

31 May 2009 - - Jane's Defence Weekly - US 'will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state', says Secretary of Defense

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:17:30 GMT

The United States Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, has warned that the US "will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state" amid reports that Pyongyang is preparing to fire another long-range missile hard on the heels of its second nuclear weapon test on 25 May. Gates told the Shangri-La Dialogue, an Asian defence and security summit held in Singapore, that the US would "not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia - or on us".

30 May 2009 - - domain-b.com - Shangri-La Dialogue: Gates says watershed in Indo-US relations news

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:24:53 GMT

He was speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue 2009, a three day regional conference on Asian defence and security organized by the non-government, London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.Gades was also categorical that the United States would never accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state.

30 May 2009 - Xinhua News - U.S., Japan, S Korea reaffirm position on DPRK's nuclear issue

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:43:35 GMT

Speaking at a joint press briefing on the sidelines of the 8th Asia Security Summit, Gates said that the United States' policy has not changed. Washington's goal is complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, and will not accept the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a nuclear weapon state.

30 May 2009 - Agence France Presse - U.S., Japan, South Korea forging 'common response'

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:49:49 GMT

The United States, Japan and South Korea agreed here Saturday to forge a "common response" to North Korea's nuclear and missile tests, amid signs that Pyongyang was preparing a fresh missile test. The news came after US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates met with his Japanese counterpart Yasukazu Hamada and South Korea's Lee Sang Hee on the sidelines of a top-level regional security forum in Singapore.

30 May 2009 - - Kyodo News - Gates says U.S. won't stand idly by as N Korea boosts nuclear arsenal

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:55:31 GMT

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned at an Asian security forum Saturday that the United States will not ‘‘stand idly by’’ as North Korea builds up its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities. At the same high-powered forum in Singapore, a top Chinese military official later Saturday urged all sides to remain ‘’ coolheaded’’ in the wake of North Korea’s recent nuclear and missile tests. ‘‘We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to reap destruction on any target in the region

30 May 2009 - Xinhua News - Chinese military officer calls for promotion of Asia-Pacific security co-op

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:58:26 GMT

Peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region requires all countries concerned to work together to promote cooperation in security, a senior Chinese military officer told the Asia Security Summit here on Saturday. "We are encouraged to see that the Asia-Pacific security situation is generally stable. Peace, development and cooperation remain the mainstream of the region," Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, said in an address to the annual confere

30 May 2009 - - Straits Times - New regional body needed

Sun, 31 May 2009 15:02:15 GMT

Addressing defence officials, military officers and journalists at the Shangri-La Dialogue last night, Mr Rudd stressed that Asia needed to start a 'regional conversation' about the Asia-Pacific Community.

30 May 2009 - - Defense News - Shangri-La Opens with Concerns over North Korea

Sat, 30 May 2009 20:30:43 GMT

The North Korean debate dominated this year's annual Shangri-La Dialogue, held in Singapore from May 29-31. Sponsored by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the Shangri-La is officially known as the IISS Asian Security Summit. It has become the premier summit of defense ministers and foreign ministry officials from around the Asia-Pacific.

30 May 2009 - - American Forces Press Service - Gates Calls North Korea’s Actions ‘Reckless, Ultimately Self-destructive’

Sat, 30 May 2009 19:05:49 GMT

“We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region – or on us,” Gates said at the opening of the “Shangri-La Dialogue” Asia security summit here.

30 May 2009 - - Associated Press - Gates: NKorea nuke progress sign of 'dark future'

Sat, 30 May 2009 20:21:35 GMT

North Korea's progress on nuclear weapons and long-range missiles is "a harbinger of a dark future" and has created an urgent need for more pressure on the reclusive communist government to change its ways, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday.

30 May 2009 - Xinhua News - U.S. not to accept DPRK as nuclear weapon state: Gates

Sat, 30 May 2009 18:41:10 GMT

Speaking at the annual summit, known as the Shangri- La Dialogue, Gates said that the DPRK has chosen to focus the limited energies and resources on nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. He said that these programs and actions have isolated the DPRK globally, and have constituted a threat to re-gional peace and security.

30 May 2009 - - Xinhua News - Chinese military official urges for calm on Korean peninsula issue

Sat, 30 May 2009 18:50:46 GMT

All parties concerned should remain cool-headed and take measures to address the problem on the Korean peninsula, a senior Chinese military official said here on Saturday. Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, spoke at the 2009 Asian Security Summit that the nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) on May 25 further complicated the situation on the Korean peninsula.

30 May 2009 - Xinhua News - Robust regional framework imperative to address security challenges: defense ministers

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:12:45 GMT

Defense Ministers attending the Asia Security Summit agreed here on Saturday that it was imperative to build a robust framework that could address various security challenges in the region. In conjunction with the Asia Security Summit, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean hosted 22 Ministers and Ministerial representatives to lunch on Saturday.

30 May 2009 - Associated Press - Gates: Tougher sanctions against NKorea needed

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:16:06 GMT

The U.S. defense chief urged Asian allies Saturday to consider tougher sanctions against North Korea, noting that past efforts to cajole the reclusive regime into scrapping its nuclear weapons program have only emboldened it.

30 May 2009 - - The Australian - Arguing delays UN response to North Korea N-test

Fri, 29 May 2009 16:46:36 GMT

Today, in Singapore at the annual Shangri-La regional security conference, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Assistant Defence Secretary for East Asia Wallace Gregson will meet defence ministers from Japan and South Korea. They are also expected to meet Kevin Rudd at the Singapore meeting.

30 May 2009 - - Straits Times - New regional body in the works

Sat, 30 May 2009 08:46:16 GMT

The new body is needed to bring leaders of the region together to enable them to cooperate across the breadth of security, economic and political challenges in the future, PM Rudd said in his keynote address at the 8th Shangri-La Dialogue.

30 May 2009 - - BBC News - US 'opposes' nuclear North Korea

Sat, 30 May 2009 09:03:53 GMT

The US "will not accept" a nuclear-armed North Korea, Defence Secretary Robert Gates has told an Asian summit. Mr Gates said the US would "not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region or on us".

30 May 2009 - - Financial Times - N Korea military steps 'not out of the ordinary'

Sat, 30 May 2009 10:06:46 GMT

“I am not aware of any military moves in the North that are out of the ordinary,” Mr Gates said. He was speaking to reporters en route to Singapore where he was expected to discuss the situation in North Korea with Asian defence ministers. His visit came amid reports that North Korea had fired another short-range missile, the sixth since it conducted a nuclear test on Monday.

30 May 2009 - - Los Angeles Times - Gates draws the line on North Korea's nuclear program: No proliferation

Sat, 30 May 2009 10:17:46 GMT

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates promised today to hold North Korea accountable for selling or transferring nuclear material outside its borders, providing the first clear expression of the Obama administration's thinking on a vexing foreign policy challenge. A succession of U.S. presidents have tried to persuade the reclusive government to give up its nuclear arms, and Gates made it clear that President Obama was open to using diplomacy to end the threat.

30 May 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - US defence secretary Robert Gates warns North Korea

Sat, 30 May 2009 11:40:21 GMT

Mr Gates's unequivocal message came during a conference of Asian defence ministers in Singapore. In his audience were representatives of the countries most threatened by Mr Kim – South Korea and Japan – and a delegation from China, North Korea's only ally.

30 May 2009 - - ABC News (Australia) - Turnbull doubts Rudd's Asia-Pacific community plan

Sat, 30 May 2009 12:05:26 GMT

Federal Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull says the region has no appetite for a meeting planned by the Prime Minister aimed at developing an Asia-Pacific Community. Kevin Rudd told a regional summit in Singapore last night that he would invite governments, academics and strategists to Australia to begin discussions on a new community.

30 May 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Gates appelle la Chine à la coopération et la transparence dans la défense

Sat, 30 May 2009 15:03:31 GMT

Le secrétaire américain à la Défense Robert Gates a appelé samedi la Chine à coopérer de manière accrue avec les Etats-Unis et à faire preuve de transparence dans le domaine de la défense, alors que la moderni-sation militaire de Pékin inquiète Washington et ses alliés en Asie. "Il est essentiel pour les Etats-Unis et la Chine de trouver des opportunités de coopérer à chaque fois que cela est possible", notamment de "maintenir une relation dans la défense marquée par des réseaux ouverts de communication

30 May 2009 - - Associated Press - Gates: North Korea should weigh moves carefully

Sat, 30 May 2009 15:07:12 GMT

The United States and its Asian allies are walking a fine line following North Korea's nuclear and missile tests: condemning the weapons threat without overplaying it. How to respond to last week's tests was a top topic Saturday for military officials and diplomats attending an annual security conference in Singapore. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called North Korea's ac-tions "reckless." South Korean Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee called it a "serious challenge."

30 May 2009 - - Associated Press - US urges Europe, China to step up Afghan help

Sat, 30 May 2009 15:20:43 GMT

"A lot of our allies are there in very large numbers ... so it's not like people have been sitting with their hands in their pockets," Gates said, answering questions from delegates after his speech. But to establish a sustainable and effective government in Afghanistan, the country needs additional aid and expertise to build infrastructure and more funding to expand and maintain the Afghan army, Gates said in the speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue.

30 May 2009 - - Deutsche Presse Agentur - US defence chief warns against new arms race in Asia

Sat, 30 May 2009 15:25:19 GMT

The United States would not accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday while warning that Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests might lead to a new arms race in Asia. "Our goal is complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," Gates told participants at a summit on Asian defence and secrurity in Singapore.

30 May 2009 - - Kyodo News - Gates says U.S. won't stand idly by as N. Korea boosts might

Sat, 30 May 2009 16:24:23 GMT

Hamada will simultaneously meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and South Korean Defense Minister Lee Sang Hee on the sidelines of an annual regional defense conference in Singapore. "The trilateral talks involving the defense chiefs signify the fact that our coordination has become in-creasingly important in this region. I believe it is very important to share awareness about the North Korean situation," Hamada told reporters.

30 May 2009 - - Kyodo News - Gates warns N. Korea U.S. will react to Pyongyang's recent provocation

Sat, 30 May 2009 16:26:42 GMT

"We will not accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state," Gates said in a speech to a high-powered Asian security forum better known as the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. "At the end of the day the choice to continue as a destitute international pariah or chart a new course is North Korea's alone to make. The world is waiting," he said.

30 May 2009 - - CNN - Gates: Nuclear-armed N. Korea not acceptable

Sat, 30 May 2009 16:35:59 GMT

The United States will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday at an international conference. "We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region -- or on us," said Gates, speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore.

30 May 2009 - - South China Morning Post - Response to nuclear test a challenge for allies

Sat, 30 May 2009 16:42:43 GMT

The Shangri-La Dialogue is expected to examine rising tensions sparked by China's military modernisation and rival build-ups by neighbouring militaries, as well as questions over the future US role. An informal meeting, the gathering traditionally sees lively question-and-answer sessions - the only such venue allowing regional military figures to debate publicly.

30 May 2009 - - Sydney Morning Herald - PM sets out Asia-Pacific choice: talk or be torn

Sat, 30 May 2009 16:45:24 GMT

THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, issued a stark warning to leaders in the Asia-Pacific last night: act now to build better regional co-operation or risk conflict on the scale of that experienced by Europe last century. In a major speech in Singapore, delivered to regional military and security leaders at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Mr Rudd said managing power relations in the context of the rise of China and India would be "crucial for our collective future".

30 May 2009 - - ITAR-TASS - Russian MP believes UN should set up tribunal for pirates

Sat, 30 May 2009 16:50:54 GMT

It would make sense for the UN to set up an international tribunal for piracy, Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of foreign policy committee is going to tell an international conference on security that will be held in Singapore May 30 and May 31. The conference is called Shangri La Dialogue and is organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. It is an Asiatic analogue of the annual Munich conference for security policy.

20 May 2009 - - Reuters - How big is Iran's military?

Thu, 21 May 2009 12:19:28 GMT

There are nearly 1,700 tanks including some 100 Zulfiqar locally produced main battle tanks. A large number of Iran's tanks are elderly British-made Chieftains and U.S.-made M-60s. Soviet-made T-54 and T-55s, T-59s, T-62s, and T-72s were also part of the inventory, all captured from the Iraqis or acquired from North Korea and China. A report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies says that some of the tanks' serviceability may be in doubt.

20 May 2009 - Financial Times - Iran missile test adds to nuclear fears

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:54:51 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for non-proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said: “This is a significant development. They first tested a solid fuel-fired rocket in November. This second test extends the range slightly but the fact that they are continuing to make progress in solid fuel-propelled missiles suggests Iran is on the march with its missile programme.”

19 May 2009 - - BBC News - Lessons of war from Tigers' defeat

Thu, 21 May 2009 12:32:14 GMT

The basis of the plan can be seen in the dominance of artillery in the government's arsenal. It has 157 heavy guns, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. These are led by 40 massive 152mm artillery pieces, called the Type 66, a Chinese copy of a Soviet weapon.

19 May 2009 - - Russia Profile - A Long Road to Peace

Thu, 21 May 2009 12:14:03 GMT

“We now have a situation where we have no security regime whatsoever,” noted Oksana Antonenko of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which monitors conflict resolution. “We have no agreement on the separation of forces, on ceasefire enforcement, on monitoring confidence building measures. All that makes the situation more fragile.”

18 May 2009 - - Defpro Daily - No Guts, No Peace?

Mon, 18 May 2009 12:01:16 GMT

Defence Minister Mustafa Najjar claimed in November 2008 that "the S-300 air defense system will be delivered to Iran on the basis of a contract signed with Russia in the past." According to Mark Fitzpatrick, former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Non-proliferation, Russia has not yet delivered those systems to Iran: "It seems clear that Russia entered into a contract with Iran for the S-300, but it's also clear that the Russians have not delivered on it and are holding on to it as potential

17 May 2009 - - Observer - Obama makes his bid for Middle East peace

Mon, 18 May 2009 11:18:14 GMT

Time, however, is short. Mark Fitzpatrick, nuclear specialist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, says the Iranians could be, in a worst-case scenario, 12 to 18 months from building a nuclear weapon. According to King Abdullah, failure to find a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians would lead to war within the same period. Tomorrow's meeting with Netanyahu is only the first step on a long, hard road.

Alastair Buchan Lecture 2009

Wed, 20 May 2009 15:30:53 GMT

On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic delivered the 2009 Alastair Buchan Memorial Lecture ' Will Europe live up to its responsibilities in a globalized world?'.

14 May 2009 - - Reuters - Loose nukes in Pakistan: how real is the risk?

Thu, 14 May 2009 10:59:24 GMT

Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the Non-proliferation and Disarmament Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said the military was "the one institution that actually works well in Pakistan" and would step in if necessary to prevent the country sliding into chaos.

12 May 2009 - - Guardian - Echoes of Vietnam in Afghanistan

Wed, 13 May 2009 13:29:14 GMT

Clear appreciation of the facts on the ground seems elusive now as it was then in Vietnam. This week America, Britain and Australia's favourite expert on counterinsurgency methods and tactics, David Kilcullen, has been in London promoting his book The Accidental Guerrilla. His work with General Petraeus in Iraq and his book have won high praise. Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, he had a strange prescription for tackling the Taliban insurgency in the north-west of Pakistan and i

China's African Challenges

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:41:42 GMT

Sarah Raine China’s relations with African nations have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China’s oil imports, and China is Africa’s second-largest single-country trading partner, as well as a leading lender and infrastructure investor on the continent. Yet these developments are bringing challenges, not only for Africa and the West, but for China as well. This book examines these challenges, considering Africa as a testing ground, both for Chines

12 May 2009 - - Reuters - Pakistan's Swat offensive risks wider backlash

Wed, 13 May 2009 13:59:19 GMT

"On this occasion, the Pakistan army has accepted that the breach of the Swat agreement by the Taliban did in fact represent a threat which it couldn't overlook or fail to respond to," said Nigel Inkster, an expert on transnational threats at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies and a former director in Britain's secret intelligence service.

12 May 2009 - - The Australian - Iran split revealed by freeing of Roxana Saberi

Mon, 18 May 2009 11:36:22 GMT

Dana Allin, a senior fellow for US foreign policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said: "It removes a big obstacle to the engagement that the Obama administration has laid out as a strategy for Iran."

12 May 2009 - - Times - David Kilcullen's Iraq invasion lesson for the US: don't do it again

Wed, 13 May 2009 14:11:53 GMT

The big lesson out of all this stuff is: don’t do it again.” That is, don’t invade countries in pursuit of a few Islamic terrorists and turn the whole population against you. That is the message from David Kilcullen, an Australian academic turned military strategist and one of the most influential advisers to General David Petraeus. Kilcullen, the author of a thoughtful new book on lessons from fighting radical Islamists, is blunt about the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan — and invasions in general.

12 May 2009 - - Defense News - More Coordination Needed for Anti-Piracy Effort, Teo Tells IMDEX

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:53:19 GMT

He said the Malacca Straits Patrols bring together Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand in a cooperative effort to lower piracy levels, calling it "collaborative deterrence." Other organizations contribute to the securing of the region, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defense Ministers' Meeting, the East Asia Summit, ASEAN Regional Forum and the Shangri-La Dialogue, scheduled for the end of May.

10 May 2009 - - McClatchy Newspapers - West looked the other way as Afghan drug trade exploded

Wed, 13 May 2009 13:38:22 GMT

Christopher Langton, a retired British army colonel who's a senior analyst at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, pointed to the fragile state of the Afghan government, "which has little control over the country," as a major factor.

09 May 2009 - - Straits Times - The changing face of JI

Tue, 19 May 2009 17:34:14 GMT

Dr Tim Huxley, executive director of the International Institute of Strategic Studies-Asia, said this adjustment in JI doctrine arose because the many civilian casualties in JI attacks had caused 'a real revulsion' against JI among ordinary Indonesians.

08 May 2009 - - Xinhua News - Too early to judge U.S. policy on Iran

Wed, 13 May 2009 13:23:16 GMT

According to a study by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Iran could cross the vital technological threshold needed to produce a nuclear bomb by the year 2010, giving it the ability to produce its first nuclear bomb within one-year's time.

07 May 2009 - - Gulf News - Abbas and Netanyahu prepare to meet Obama

Fri, 08 May 2009 11:51:42 GMT

Gates and the US military brass have voiced distaste for pre-emptive strikes on Iran, which says its uranium enrichment is for legitimate electricity production, not weapons. But their public comments have acknowledged that Israel could break rank. "I do not doubt that Israel will do what it thinks it needs to do, regardless of whether the US approves," said Mark Fitzpatrick, non-proliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "Israel would seek forgiveness, not perm

07 May 2009 - - Deutsche Welle - Prague Summit to launch ''Eastern Partnership''

Fri, 08 May 2009 12:37:06 GMT

The Eastern Partnership builds up a stronger regional dimension that goes further than the ENP, says Oksana Antonenko, a senior Russia analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. ENP offers bilateral relations with all countries that border the entire EU by land and sea, including the Mediterranean Union countries, whereas the EP is a multilateral agreement involving only six countries, she explained. "Israel would seek forgiveness, not permission." The comments,

06 May 2009 - - Reuters - Israel would inform, not ask U.S. before hitting Iran

Fri, 08 May 2009 11:22:02 GMT

"I do not doubt that Israel will do what it thinks it needs to do, regardless of whether the U.S. approves," said Mark Fitzpatrick, non-proliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "Israel would seek forgiveness, not permission." The comments, made by Nigel Inkster, who was deputy director of MI6 at the time, make clear there were reservations over the war at a very senior level within the Secret Intelligence Service.

04 May 2009 - - Guardian - Appearance is key in tackling terrorism

Sat, 30 May 2009 18:01:00 GMT

By Rafaelllo Pantucci, Consulting Research Associate

03 May 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - Former MI6 chief says Britain was 'dragged' into Iraq war

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:47:52 GMT

Britain was "dragged into a war in Iraq which was always against out better judgment" the former deputy head of MI6 has claimed, in a remark that will reignite the debate over political interference in the war. The comments, made by Nigel Inkster, who was deputy director of MI6 at the time, make clear there were reservations over the war at a very senior level within the Secret Intelligence Service.

03 May 2009 - - Independent on Sunday - If we move in, we have to stay committed

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:49:04 GMT

By Dr Toby Dodge, Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East

Strategic Comments Volume 15 - Issue 4

Thu, 14 May 2009 12:26:51 GMT

Volume 15, Issue 4 of Strategic Comments, the Institute's online journal, has just been published. The first article, The drones of war, is free to all readers, while the remaining four - Power-sharing in Zimbabwe, Kenya's political stalemate, UK rethink on counter-terrorism and Economic stress continues - are accessible to IISS members or Strategic Comments subscribers. A pay-per-view facility is also available. The charge for each article is £5

Japan's Remilitarisation

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:58:00 GMT

Christopher W. Hughes Is Japan on a path towards assuming a greater military role internationally, or has the recent military normalisation ground to a halt since the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi? In this book, Christopher W. Hughes assesses developments in defence expenditure, civil–military relations, domestic and international military–industrial complexes, Japan’s procurement of regional and global power-projection capabilities, the expansion of US–Japan cooperation, and attitudes towards nuclear w

28 Apr 2009 - - Lloyd's List - Report links climate change and security threat

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:14:49 GMT

The study, 'Climate Change and security: risks and opportunities for business', published with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), says India and Pakistan may clash over the diminishing water supply from the Indus river basin. Tension between Russia and China may increase as the latter finds it increasingly difficult to feed itself, while growing shortages of oil and gas could see five states compete to exploit the rich reserves in the Arctic, says the report.

28 Apr 2009 - - Arab News - Prince Faisal named to Council of IISS

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:25:31 GMT

Prince Faisal bin Salman, chairman of Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG), a leading publishing house in the Middle East, has been appointed a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), an independent think tank based in London. “All of us at the IISS are delighted to benefit from His Royal Highness’ knowledge and experience. As we build a greater presence in the Middle East, Prince Faisal’s counsel to the IISS will be invaluable,” said IISS Director-General

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26 Apr 2009 - - Straits Times - The inevitability of China's military build-up

Tue, 19 May 2009 15:43:47 GMT

On the flip side, growing understanding between Washington and Beijing has developed over issues such as the status of Taiwan, North Korea's nuclear programme and the global economic crisis. US officials are pleased that China is participating in regional fora such as the Shangri-La Dialogue. At last week's military observances, President Hu Jintao stressed - again - that China will never seek hegemony. It is becoming more attuned to how foreign quarters view its actions. Such confidence-boosting statements

24 Apr 09 - IISS Press Release - A Conference on the Global Security Implications of Climate Change

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:46:55 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is pleased to announce the latest conference installment of the Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate Change and Security (TDCCS), entitled: Defining Global Security in the 21st Century: the Global Security Implications of Climate Change, on Tuesday, 5 May 2009, from 8:30 to 3:00 pm at the Ritz Carlton, Washington (1150 22nd St NW, Washington DC). A light breakfast and lunch will be provided. Attendance is by invitation only, or with prior approval.

23 Apr 2009 - - Radio Free Europe - Russia and NATO At Odds Over Planned Military Exercise In Georgia

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:12:04 GMT

Christopher Langton, head of defense analysis for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, told RFE/RL that the exercise had been planned in Georgia since the beginning of 2008 and, therefore, could not be construed as a deliberate attempt by NATO to provoke Moscow over August's conflict.

23 Apr 2009 - - CNN - China's navy on parade

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:45:21 GMT

As China's navy celebrates its 60th anniversary critics raise concerns about its future. CNN's John Vause reports.

22 Apr 2009 - - Gulf News - France plans to set up university in Bahrain

Tue, 05 May 2009 15:24:25 GMT

France has recently been pushing for a stronger presence in the Arabian Gulf region. In 2005, then French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie called for a strategic co-operation between Europe and the Gulf. "I am convinced that the time has come to go up a level in our cooperation. Regarding security issues, the Arabian Gulf seems like the private domain of the US. Europe could provide a very important contribution to the region because it is a heavyweight actor," she told the Manama Dialogue.

17 Apr 2009 - - Guardian - Iraq voices: 'It's easy to look OK if you're next to an idiot'

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:08:48 GMT

Mamoun Fandy, Institute for Strategic Studies, London Saddam certainly represented a problem for the Middle East, so removing him was a desirable outcome for the region. We only learned later that the legal foundations for the war were undermined by false evidence about WMD - but this was not the doing of the British. I understand the logic behind supporting the US in the light of Britain's alliance with Washington, and UK interests and influence in the Gulf and the Middle East. Whether it was right to go

17 Apr 2009 - - New Straits Times - Embattled Tigers mull taking their war abroad

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:40:20 GMT

The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said three years ago that the LTTE was building commercial links with al-Qaeda and other militants in Afghanistan, and that several of its cadres had been spotted in Afghan militant camps.

17 Apr 2009 - - Channel News Asia - Australian PM Rudd to give keynote speech at Shangri-La

Wed, 27 May 2009 23:10:23 GMT

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will be the keynote speaker on the conference opening night, said the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which is the organiser of the event. Defence ministers, chiefs of defence staff, foreign ministers and other senior officials from 27 governments will attend the conference.

17 Apr 2009 - - Wall St Journal - U.S. Weighs Changes in Strategy to Fight Pirates

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:42:58 GMT

Loosening rules of engagement can increase the risk of mistakenly killing civilians. "Terrorist, tourist, fisherman, pirate, they all look the same until the last moment," says Jason Alderwick, maritime-defense analyst for the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

17 Apr 2009 - - Guardian - Iraq: the legacy - Ill equipped, poorly trained, and mired in a 'bloody mess'

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:44:18 GMT

"The best we can do is to hope to keep piracy at a moderate level," said Jason Alderwick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. By September that year, 2007, British and Iraqi military commanders had had enough. British troops had become a magnet for Iraqi insurgents, many of them armed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Amid recriminations still echoing around the corridors of Whitehall and Washington, British soldiers said they were only staying in southern Iraq "because of our

16 Apr 2009 - - Reuters - Better navy coordination needed against Somali pirates

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:06:05 GMT

"The best we can do is to hope to keep piracy at a moderate level," said Jason Alderwick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "At the moment there are about 15-16 naval ships in the area and that's clearly not enough. But what would be enough?"

16 Apr 2009 - - Miami Herald - Stopping climate change — and starvation

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:09:07 GMT

This is a situation that noted security experts believe could place dangerous new stresses on international stability. In fact, according to a 2007 International Institute for Strategic Studies report, the effects of continued and unchecked carbon emissions could be catastrophic, with impacts "on the level of nuclear war." Many scientists, however, believe that it's still possible to avert such nightmarish scenarios if we start to act now.

15 Apr 2009 - - The Australian - China is no great power

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:28:51 GMT

Ten years ago Gerry Segal, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, asked an important question: Does China matter? As he said at the time, it's not a silly question, just one that doesn't get asked often enough. It's time for policymakers to ask that question again.

15 Apr 2009 - - IISS News Advisory - IISS Announces 8th Annual Asia Security Summit, the Shangri-La Dialogue

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:41:33 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is pleased to announce that the 8th Annual Asia Security Summit, the Shangri-La Dialogue, will take place from 29 May to 31 May 2009 in Singapore. The 2009 Dialogue will gather the highest concentration to date of policy-makers involved in Asian security as official delegations from some 27 governments will be represented by defence ministers, chiefs of defence staff, foreign ministers and other senior officials. The Honourable Kevin Rudd MP, Pri

15 April 2009 - - Guardian - The disaster of Basra is all too likely to be repeated

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:12:31 GMT

By Dr Toby Dodge, Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East

14 Apr 2009 - - Reuters - Q&A-Is Iraq sliding back into violence?

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:04:06 GMT

Toby Dodge, professor at the University of London: "I think what's driving this forward is Maliki's hubris. I think he was quite successful in taking down aspects of the Awakening Councils in Diyala and in Sunni areas of Baghdad. I think he now is taking that a step further and is going all out to crush them and that must be a causal factor in the renewed violence. "I think that the balance of power is very precarious. I think that the Iraqi military, especially the police end of it, hasn't got the capac

14 Apr 2009 - - BBC News - North Korea: engage, appease, oppose?

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:00:53 GMT

North Korea has a million-strong army, with more than 4,000 tanks and about 18,000 artillery pieces, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

13 Apr 2009 - - Defense News - Europeans Ramp Up Regional Market Push

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:00:00 GMT

As Brazil boosts spending on major platforms such as fighter aircraft, helicopters, and conventionally and nuclear-powered submarines, Spain may lose its spot as its top supplier. To start funding those requirements, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva earlier this year started pushing for a more than 50 percent increase in defense spending through to 2010. Business Monitor International reported in February that Brazil's defense minister, Nelson Jobim, is raising the equipment procurement budget

14 Apr 2009 - - Calcutta Telegraph - Another Divisive Measure

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:07:17 GMT

The break-up of the armed forces of India, as reported by Military Balance 2009, published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, is as follows: army 1,100,000; navy; 55,000; air force 1,40,000 and the paramilitary 1,300,586. One may safely infer that the jawans who constitute at least 95 per cent of the total strength are unlikely to fall under the tax bracket. That will leave a total of 1,29,780 Class I officers out of the income-tax net.

27 Jan 2009 - - Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Afgan mission threatened by NATO tensions, think tank warns

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:32:28 GMT

The warning, in the IISS's annual Military Balance survey of armed forces around the world, comes as new US President Barack Obama is expected to ask European NATO members to send more troops to the country. The report said that the Taliban insurgency had continued "unabated" for the past 12 months - even moving into previously quiet provinces - adding to pressures on the alliance.

27 Jan 2009 - - The News (Pakistan) - Economic slowdown to squeeze Obama's military options: study

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:32:48 GMT

The global slowdown will stretch defence budgets worldwide, notably complicating the task of new US President Barack Obama as he switches foreign policy focus, a top think tank said Tuesday.

27 Jan 2009 - - Indo-Asian News Service - India should prepare for Obama’s regional strategy: expert

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:15:43 GMT

Roy-Chaudhury’s comments came as the IISS Tuesday published its Military Balance 2009 - a report that predicts that the failure of Western forces to counter the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2008 could prompt these powers to “reappraise their commitments” this year. Roy-Chaudhury, who heads the South Asia division of IISS, said that with President Barack Obama shifting US strategic priority from Iraq to Afghanistan, New Delhi should be prepared for greater regional engagement.

27 Jan 2009 - - Asian News International - NATO losing battle against the Taliban: IISS

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:40:47 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has claimed that NATO is losing its battle in Afghanistan because of tensions within the alliance. The think tank claimed that the Taliban has been stepping up the use of suicide bombings and expanding their operations into areas that were previously quiet.

The Military Balance 2009

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:59:26 GMT

The Military Balance is the annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 170 countries worldwide, produced annually by the IISS since 1959. It is an essential resource for those involved in security policymaking, analysis and research.

27 Jan 2009 - - Sky News - 'Uranium For Iran Nuke By 2009'

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:17:04 GMT

Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) predicts.

27 Jan 2009 - - Press Trust of India - Pak has not rolled up extensive terror network: IISS

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:40:09 GMT

"Pakistan subsequently closed down training camps and offices of the banned Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toeba and its front organisation Jamaat-ud-Daawa, held responsible for the Mumbai attacks," the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said today. "There, no doubt, remains an extensive element of the network that has not been rolled up," Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive of the IISS told media persons.

27 Jan 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Crisis hits defence budgets

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:42:49 GMT

THE global slowdown will stretch defence budgets worldwide, notably complicating the task of new US President Barack Obama as he switches foreign policy focus, a top thinktank said on Tuesday. As Mr Obama moves to pull troops from Iraq and bolster forces in Afghanistan he will face continuing tensions with Nato allies, themselves also tightening belts at home, said the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

27 Jan 2009 - - Agence France Presse - China to begin projecting military around the world: analysts

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:44:20 GMT

China is likely to begin deploying its military increasingly further from its borders, analysts at a top thinktank said on Tuesday. The Asian power was also unlikely to constrain its defence budget because of an economic downturn that has left the World Bank forecasting the slowest pace of growth in China since 1990, the analysts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies said.

27 Jan 2009 - - Reuters - Afghanistan at critical point, poll at risk - IISS

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:11:42 GMT

Afghanistan is entering its most critical phase since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, a leading think-tank said on Tuesday, with the risk that widening violence will mean planned elections cannot be held this year. "The integrity of the whole international mission in Afghanistan is ... very substantially at stake," John Chipman, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said as he unveiled the group's 2009 global military outlook.

27 Jan 2009 - - United Press International - Report: Lack of unity hurts Afghan effort

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:41:45 GMT

are showing in the NATO alliance's campaign in Afghanistan, just as a new U.S. president has vowed to beef up efforts there, a think tank says. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, in a report released in London Tuesday, warned the lack of what it called a "unified approach" by NATO in Afghanistan is undermining its efforts to defeat the country's Taliban insurgency.

27 Jan 2009 - - Deutsche Presse Agentur - Gaza war has not ended Hamas threat to Israel: Think tank

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:53:04 GMT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), in its Military Balance 2009 report, said that while Hamas had suffered ’serious blows’, the anxiety over the level of civilian casualties had ’served to legitimise Hamas in the eyes of part of Arab public opinion and even amongst some regional leaders, weakening the position of the co-called moderates’.

27 Jan 2009 - - Daily Mail - Tensions within Nato are 'tearing the Afghanistan mission apart'

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:02:16 GMT

Tensions within the Nato alliance and lack of progress in the fight against Taliban is undermining the international mission in Afghanistan, a leading think tank warned today. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said that the Taliban were stepping up the use of suicide bombings and expanding their operations into areas that were previously quiet.

27 Jan 2009 - - Associated Press - Afghanistan mission faltering, think-tank says

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:07:38 GMT

British security think-tank says NATO's mission in Afghanistan is faltering. The International Institute for Strategic Studies says Taliban insurgents pushed into new areas of Afghanistan and increased the use of suicide bombers last year.

27 Jan 2009 - - Financial Times - Think-tank warns Afghan mission ‘faltering’

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:24:31 GMT

The integrity of the international mission in Afghanistan will be “very substantially at stake” in the course of 2009 as the country enters what is probably the most critical period it has been through since 2001, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. As President Barack Obama’s administration presses ahead with a review of its overall policy in Afghanistan, the London-based IISS has issued a stark warning over Nato’s mission in the country, arguing that the western intervention

27 Jan 2009 - - Times - Russian military a 'paper tiger' despite symbolic comeback, says IISS

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:27:54 GMT

Russia may be flexing its military muscle once again, sending warships into international waters and dispatching long-range bombers on reconnaissance trips, but the former superpower remains a paper tiger, a respected London think-tank has concluded. The recent warship manoeuvres in the Mediterranean and Latin America were just “symbolic” gestures, carried out by the former maritime giant that was able to deploy only a small number of ships while the rest of the fleet was tied up at home without enough

26 Jan 2009 - - Fars News Agency - EU for Palestinian Unity with Abbas in Charge

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:10:57 GMT

Based on various leaks, such as a report by the British International Institute for Strategic Studies, the US supplied $59 million worth of guns, ammunition and training to Palestinian Fatah activists to take on Hamas in the streets of Gaza and the West Bank, while encouraging its Arab allies to do the same.

25 Jan 2009 - - Independent on Sunday - Is Afghanistan going to be Obama's Iraq?

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:37:19 GMT

"There are fears that this could become a US war rather than a Nato one," said Christopher Langton, senior fellow for conflict at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. "With other Nato members already planning to scale back, the US could find itself isolated. Rather than being an international operation, it would become another 'coalition of the willing', as in Iraq – though with the crucial difference that the Afghan mission has had a United Nations mandate throughout."

23 Jan 2009 - - Reuters - Sunni anti-Qaeda sheikhs vie for west Iraq in poll

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:10:32 GMT

Analysts say they stand a good chance. "The working assumption is that the IIP will get wiped out in Anbar," said Toby Dodge, an Iraq specialist at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.

20 Jan 2009 - - Survival - Real America

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:46:26 GMT

By Dana Allin, Editor, Survival, Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs

20 Jan 2009 - - Financial Times - Will US foreign policy change under Obama?

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:29:53 GMT

Interview with Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

20 Jan 2009 - - Thinkpiece - Responding to the terrorist threat: Implications for UK businesses and insurance

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:06:28 GMT

By Rafaelllo Pantucci, Research Associate

17 Jan 2009 - - Guardian - The Bush Years: Colin Powell

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:22:29 GMT

If the need is for deep reaching change then Colin Powell would not be the man. But there is also a continuing need for American leaders who combine firmness and experience with a natural courtesy and willingness to listen. Colin Powell is an authentic part of that tradition. Listening to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and General Petraeus at the recent International Institute for Strategic Studies conference in Bahrain, I was glad to find that the tradition remains alive and powerful.

17 January 2009 - - Arms Control Today - Drawing a Bright Redline: Forestalling Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:06:12 GMT

By Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation

17 Jan 2009 - - Associated Press - Gaza battles show 'nasty' face of urban combat

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:25:32 GMT

"Hamas will seek to suck the (Israeli) forces as much into the urban terrain as possible," said retired British Col. Christopher Langton, a military analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "They will attempt to shape the battlefield."

15 Jan 2009 - - World Affairs Journal - The Human Element: When Gadgetry Becomes Strategy

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:48:28 GMT

By Colonel H.R. McMaster, Consulting Senior Fellow

15 Jan 2009 - - In the News - Don't mention the war on terror, says Miliband

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:39:13 GMT

Dana Allin, senior fellow for transatlantic studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told politics.co.uk there had been a "myopic and distorting focus on the concept" since September 11th. "As a framework for American foreign policy, driven by… understandable but excessive fear, it is not particularly inspiring to the rest of the world," he commented.

12 January 2009 - - Österreichischer Rundfunk - Interview with Jason Alderwick

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:54:57 GMT

Interview with Jason Alderwick, Maritime Analyst, Defence Analysis Department

11 Jan 2009 - - Independent on Sunday - UK forces in Afghanistan in worst ever winter campaign

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:00:27 GMT

“Casualties can be attributed to the unusually high presence of Taliban in certain areas. Also to the reaction of the international forces, particularly the British, who seem determined, quite rightly, to disrupt the Taliban presence,” explained Colonel Christopher Langton, a senior analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “It is hard to gauge numbers but it is certainly a firm impression, not just by me, that there is a larger presence. The numbers may not be bigger but it could be t

10 Jan 2009 - - Straits Times - Are we talking up the recession?

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:09:10 GMT

Booms and busts are in the nature of a free market economy and a financial crisis is not the end of the world, as Mr Lee Kuan Yew said last September, at the height of the turmoil unleashed by the Lehman collapse. 'Let's say there is a complete collapse,' he said. 'Does that mean the end of the world...the free market economy? No.' What is important in a meltdown is to restore confidence, said the Minister Mentor during a dialogue at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.

08 Jan 2009 - - Lloyds List - Looking ahead

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:46:39 GMT

We’ve recently teamed up with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), “the world’s leading authority on political-military conflict” established in 1958, to forecast how climate change and security may merge to become a future ‘mega-risk’. In the first quarter of the year, we’ll set out what this means for business.

07 Jan 2009 - - The News - A carrot and a stick

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:25:16 GMT

There are three ways in which the nuclear deal will give a boost to India’s nuclear arsenal. First, by giving India access to the world market in nuclear fuel for its power reactors, the agreement will free its scarce uranium resources for the production of weapons-usable plutonium in dedicated reactors that are exempt from international safeguards. According to Mark Fitzpatrick, nuclear expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Pakistan and India both have about 60 to 70 nuclea

07 Jan 2009 - - New York Times - The Mideast’s Ground Zero

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:16:55 GMT

“The Gaza that Israel left in 2005 was bordering Egypt. The Gaza that Israel just came back to is now bordering Iran,” said Mamoun Fandy, director of Middle East programs at the International Institute of Strategic Studies. “Iran has become the ultimate confrontation state. I am not sure we can talk just about ‘Arab-Israeli peace’ or the ‘Arab peace initiative’ anymore. We may be looking at an ‘Iranian initiative.’ ” In short, the whole notion of Arab-Israeli peacemaking likely will have to change.

06 Jan 2009 - - Financial Times - Urban combat raises the stakes in Gaza

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:21:51 GMT

Colonel Christopher Langton of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies says entry by troops into the heart of Gaza City would be fraught with danger, especially given the Israeli public’s resistance to incurring casualties or hostages in its largely conscript army. “Once inside the city the army would have to go through it completely,” he says.

06 Jan 2009 - - Guardian - Lessons of Lebanon may have been learned, but even sophisticated arms kill civilians as risks of

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:48:59 GMT

Israeli forces do not want to be dragged into urban warfare, most military analysts agree. The more they did so the greater the risk, not only casualties, but of abductions. "The further you get in, the more difficult it's going to become and the spectre of urban warfare looms on the horizon," said Colonel Christopher Langton, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. If the conflict extended to the tunnels then it would be a "very long war" as the Americans found in Laos and Vietn

03 Jan 2009 - - Independent - Tehran's links with Hamas could spark retribution

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:04:13 GMT

Independent US and British analysts say that, in a few months, Iran will have accumulated enough low-enriched uranium to upgrade to fuel for one bomb. But as Mark Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, has said: "Being able to enrich uranium is not the same as having a weapon."

Perspectives on International Security

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:01:00 GMT

Speeches and Papers from the 50th Anniversary Year of the International Institute for Strategic Studies Edited by Tim Huxley and Alexander Nicoll Like most years in the 50-year history of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), 2008 saw events that could have significant consequences for international relations and global balances of power. These included the election of Barack Obama as US president; the brief war in Georgia, which caused the West to look at Russia with more watchful eye

Joining al-Qaeda

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:01:00 GMT

Jihadist Recruitment in Europe Peter R. Neumann In Britain alone, several thousand young Muslims are thought to be part of violent extremist networks. How did they become involved? What are the mechanisms and dynamics through which European Muslims join al-Qaeda and groups inspired by al-Qaeda? This paper explains the processes whereby European Muslims are recruited into the Islamist militant movement. It reveals that although overt recruitment has been driven underground, prisons and other ‘places of vul

Volume 14 – Issue 10

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Volume 14, Issue 10 of Strategic Comments, the Institute's online journal, has just been published. The first article, Terror in Mumbai, is free to all readers, with the remaining four - Withdrawal from Iraq, Can Obama re-engage Iran, Southeast Asia's disputed waters and North Korea digs in - accessible to IISS members or Strategic Comments subscribers. A pay-per-view facility is also available. The charge for each article is £5

Survival Volume 50, Number 6

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:17 GMT

Volume 50, Number 6 of Survival, the Institute's bi-monthly journal, has been published.

The Iranian Nuclear Crisis

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:35:03 GMT

Avoiding worst-case outcomes Mark Fitzpatrick This paper explains how Iran developed its nuclear programme to the point where it threatens to achieve a weapons capability within a short time frame, and analyses Western policy responses aimed at forestalling that capability. Key questions are addressed: will the world have to accept an Iranian uranium-enrichment programme, and does having a weapons capability mean having the Bomb? For nearly two decades, Western strategy on the Iran nuclear issue emphasis

Eka Tkeshelashvili Address

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:20:33 GMT

On Wednesday 26 November 2008 Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, addressed the IISS on ‘Georgia: the Latest Developments.’ In her IISS speech, Ms Tkeshelashvili discussed this summer’s Russo-Georgian War, the 6 point plan and the EU’s involvement in brokering a peace agreement. She also spoke about the current reality on the ground and what she believes will be Russia’s behaviour in the future. Finally, she approached the issue of Georgia’s current and future relationship with t

Volume 14 – Issue 9

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Volume 14, Issue 9 of Strategic Comments, the Institute's online journal has just been published. The first article, Pakistan on the brink, is free to all readers, with the remaining four - Serbia's surprise embrace of Europe, The simmering food crisis, Seeking peace in the South Caucasus and Forward march on European defence - accessible to IISS members or Strategic Comments subscribers. A pay-per-view facility is also available. The charge for each article is £5

John Hutton Address

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:18:27 GMT

On Tuesday 11th November 2008 Rt. Hon John Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Defence, addressed the IISS on 'Afghanistan – worth the Sacrifice' Mr Hutton was giving his maiden speech as Secretary of State for Defence and chose to address the issue of Afghanistan. With the election of a new US President and national elections in Afghanistan during 2009, the next 12 months will be a critical time for the mission in Afghanistan.

European Military Crisis Management

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Connecting ambition and reality Bastian Giegerich International demand for military crisis-management missions continues to grow and demand for troops continues to outstrip supply. Like other Western democracies, European Union member states, because of their wealth, relative military competence and commitment to human rights, bear a particular responsibility to expand the international community’s capacity for action. But while the EU has succeeded in defining a complex military-technical and political-s

Volume 14 – Issue 8

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:01:42 GMT

Volume 14, Issue 8 of Strategic Comments, the Institute's online journal has just been published. The first article, the West's financial crisis, is free to all readers, with the remaining four - Climate change and the US election; Spiralling drug violence in Mexico; The normalisation of Indonesia; and Uganda's elusive peace deal - accessible to IISS members or Strategic Comments subscribers. A pay-per-view facility is also available. The charge for each article is £5.

Survival Volume 50, Number 5

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:45:13 GMT

Volume 50, Number 5 of Survival, the Institute's bi-monthly journal, has been published.

Lee Kuan Yew Address

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:28:24 GMT

On Tuesday 23 September Lee Kuan Yew, Minster Mentor, Singapore, delivered a special lecture and inaugurated the Lee Kuan Yew Conference Room at Arundel House. Streamed coverage of this event is available for the speech and Q&A session.

Elmar Mammadyarov Address

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:58:59 GMT

On Thursday 18 September 2008, HE Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan,spoke on "Azerbaijan’s Foreign Policy Perspectives ".

Strategic Survey 2008 Launch

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:10:25 GMT

Strategic Survey 2008 was launched on 18 September 2008 at 10:30am. Dr John Chipman, Director-General of the IISS, presented the highlights and some of the main arguments of the book and commented on recent events. Dr Chipman, Alex Nicoll, Editor of Strategic Survey, and other senior IISS staff members then took questions.

06 Oct 2009 - - Le Monde - A Washington, le débat sur l'Afghanistan s'intensifie

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:37:20 GMT

Le commandant ne craint pas de donner son avis en public, au risque de placer le commandant en chef Obama en porte-à-faux. Alors qu'il bouclait ses 100 premiers jours de commandement des forces de l'OTAN, il a donné, jeudi, une conférence devant l'International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), à Londres. Il y a mis en pièces le plan attribué au vice-président Joseph Biden de concentrer les moyens sur l'antiterrorisme, plutôt que de renforcer les effectifs. Ce serait le " chaos-istan ", a-t-il dit. So

05 Oct 2009 - - Washington Independent - Media Pushes ‘Rift’ Between McChrystal and Obama

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:32:18 GMT

McChrystal’s London remarks, delivered at the U.K.’s premiere security think tank, the Institute for International and Strategic Studies, may have been delivered the day after Obama’s war cabinet met to debate Afghanistan, but they were the result of weeks’ worth of planning. “The IISS invited General McChrystal to address the Institute, having learnt of his intention to travel to the UK,” said Adam Ward, the director of the Institute’s studies, who added that the institute’s invitation had been extended “

05 Oct 2009 - - Reuters - War advisers must be candid but discreet: Gates

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:58:34 GMT

General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, last week told the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London such a strategy would probably be "shortsighted."

05 Oct 2009 - - Daily Telegraph - Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:01:08 GMT

In London, Gen McChrystal, who heads the 68,000 US troops in Afghanistan as well as the 100,000 Nato forces, flatly rejected proposals to switch to a strategy more reliant on drone missile strikes and special forces operations against al-Qaeda. He told the Institute of International and Strategic Studies that the formula, which is favoured by Vice-President Joe Biden, would lead to "Chaos-istan".

05 Oct 2009 - - Associated Press - Adviser says troops only part of Afghan policy

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:13:51 GMT

Jones offered a mild rebuke Sunday of Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, for making a public call for more forces during a speech last week in London. It is "better for military advice to come up through the chain of command," said Jones. But he also said that McChrystal "is in it for the long haul," beating back suggestions that the general's public remarks could jeopardize his job. "I don't think this is an issue," said Jones

05 Oct 2009 - - New Statesman - Worst US losses for a year as Taliban storm Nato outpost

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:30:50 GMT

Worst US losses for a year as Taliban storm Nato outpost But he also said that McChrystal "is in it for the long haul," beating back suggestions that the general's public remarks could jeopardize his job. "I don't think this is an issue," said Jones

05 Oct 2009 - - New York Times - Security Adviser Calls Troop Increase McChrystal’s Opinion

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:13:05 GMT

General McChrystal, whom President Obama installed this summer, has said that 40,000 troops are needed for a counterinsurgency strategy that protects civilians, clears Taliban-held territory and holds it while Afghan soldiers are trained. He said in an unusually blunt speech in London that a “counterterrorist focus” — the kind advocated by Mr. Biden — was a recipe for what he called “Chaos-istan.”

04 Oct 2009 - - Sunday Times - Profile: Stanley McChrystal

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:40:16 GMT

Given the 55-year-old general’s background as a “black ops” warrior whose special forces captured Saddam Hussein and assassinated Al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, his audience at the International Institute for Strategic Studies might have expected a gung-ho figure in General Patton’s mould.

04 Oct 2009 - - Sunday Times - Muddle on, Mr President, that’s the best option

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:46:45 GMT

His speeches and comments last week in London seem to me to speak very highly of him, just as his bluntness in public and private suggest a man serious about winning this war. On a human level, anyone who can recite whole sections of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by heart is all right with me.