Press Coverage 2005

London insurers urged to rethink The SMF said it hoped its report - drawn up by the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies - would prompt a review of the Strait's status when the JWC next meets early next year....
Nationalism drives China, Japan apart After Aso's comment about China's hefty military spending increases, Beijing vehemently and publicly repeated the official Chinese annual defense spending figure of $25.6 billion. Yet few China...
Ways to wage peace in 2006 Pull the wool aside and what can we see? In the journal of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, the analyst Michael Mandelbaum notes, "the practice of war, once the...
Singapore body enters Malacca Strait row THE Singapore Maritime Foundation has added its voice to the campaign for the Joint War Committee to remove the Malacca Strait from its list of war risk areas, commissioning a report from a...
Key Malacca Strait route not a war risk The foundation then commissioned London's International Institute for Stategic Studies to commission a report on "the threat of maritime terrorism" in the Malacca Strait. The...
Pipeline or a Pipe Dream? None of that matters if the U.S. and the European Union come down hard on Iran for its nuclear program and impose sanctions. That ratchets up the risk factors associated with any pipeline investment....
Showdown over Iran atom drive looms Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies said the renewed dialogue put off a showdown, but the EU3 knew anyway that it could not gather the requisite broad support until...
EU, Iran deeply divided "I don't know that it (resuming talks) means much more than that the date of confrontation is postponed as long as Iran is not yet resuming its enrichment work," said Mark Fitzpatrick, a...
Ahmadinejad on Israel But Iran's military capacity is limited - and no match for nuclear-armed Israel. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Iran is developing an upgraded Shahab-3 ballistic...
Countdown to withdrawal from Iraq If "victory" remains defined as stable democracy in Iraq, it is unlikely that Bush will have enough time to implement his strategy. In September, General George Casey, the senior American...
East Asian integration is a test Last June, Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defence, urged advocates of Asian regional co-operation not to exclude the US. In a September speech, Robert Zoellick, deputy secretary of state, warned...
Czech Republic considers helping Iran Earlier this year, the Czech Republic considered lifting the five-year-old law banning Czech firms from providing deliveries to Iran's nuclear power plant as a gesture of goodwill. Foreign Affairs...
Singapore To Buy 12 F-15 Fighter Jets Tim Huxley, senior fellow for Asia Pacific security at The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said he did not foresee any strong regional reaction to the...
Elbaradei warns Israel on attacking Iran Director General of the IAEA ElBaradei said Tuesday that he hoped to resolve outstanding issues with regard to Iran's nuclear program by next year. The UN nuclear watchdog chief expressed his...
The Mideast's Battle of Ideas This contemporary East is dominated by China and India. West means Britain, France and the United States. And the Middle East is a battle zone of ideas, religions, oil and a cultural use of tribal...
Waiting for the end of the world Mohamed ElBaradei, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who this weekend will receive the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, didn't phrase the failure quite as starkly as that. But he...
Mission to be decided Independent reports on the insurgents, notably by the International Institute of Strategic Studies, say that they are motivated mainly by the presence of foreign troops on Iraqi soil. That is why...
Sino-Japan mistrust obscuring shared vision The East Asian Community is a timely and visionary idea. But it also faces daunting obstacles, especially in the current climate of mistrust between China and Japan. The countries are the two...
Der Irak und Iran Von dieser Entwicklung fühlen sich besonders die im Golf-Kooperationsrat organisierten Staaten (Saudi-Arabien, Kuweit, Qatar, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Bahrein und Oman) bedroht, die...
Wolves in the Gulf That was the consensus I heard expressed by Gulf Arab leaders, intellectuals, senior military officers and national security officials who gathered here last weekend to compare notes with each other...