Diplomatic, not aid sanctions more effective Dr. Chipman is in the country to confirm the participation of Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Shangri-La Dialogue 2006, a conclave of defence ministers from the Asia-Pacific region to be...
Regional security 'is vital to world peace' Dr Abdul Ghaffar quoted from His Majesty King Hamad's address at the Second Gulf Dialogue in December 2005 where the King said that for the world to be free, it had to be secure and stable. The...
IAEA report says Iran defies UN demands Mark Fitzpatrick, nuclear analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said interest in ElBaradei's report focussed on how it assessed Iran's claims to rapid progress...
Q&A: Iran's nuclear programme Estimates on how long it would take Iran to manufacture a nuclear bomb range from a couple of years to a decade. The London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies believes it is on course...
Report likely to find Iran defying UN Mark Fitzpatrick, nuclear analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said world leaders would look for any substantiation in the report of Iran's claims to rapid progress...
NATO debates Australian partnership Jean-Yves Hine, an expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said the partnership idea underlined NATO's transformation from a Cold War body ensuring mutual defence to an...
New government doesn't slow Iraq killings And the protracted legislative squabbling before the new prime minister-designate, Nouri al-Maliki, was picked may have allowed the militias to break free of the limited control that political...
The Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan It's unclear. The Taliban has never appeared on the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, nor does it appear on similar lists maintained by Britain, the European Union,...
India loathes Tigers, fears impact "It's very complicated in the sense that the LTTE continues to be an organisation India would like to be banned worldwide," said Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, a South Asia specialist at the...
Can the U.S. Win 'Asymetric' Wars? The dilemmas facing the American military in the new era of irregular warfare are analysed by Professor Lawrence Freedman in his latest work, The Transformation of Strategic Affairs, a booklet...
Chances rising of military strike on Iran "I think it's more than just putting pressure on Iran. I think it's a real possibility," argued Mark Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). "The...
British Report Analyzes West's Failure Mark Fitzpatrick, director of Non-Proliferation Programme for International Institute for Strategic Studies" took part in a lecture. He said that Iran would probably acquire a nuclear weapon...
Georgia Promotes Property Payback At a March 31 meeting in the Russian city of Vladikavkaz, organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Georgian government officials met for the first time with...
Iran Advances Could Speed Nuclear Process A private group, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, also said in a recent report that the fact that Iran had hedged on providing information about the P-2 centrifuges raised...
Iran claim on nuclear plan raises new fears So far his answers have been vague, investigators say. Iran, for its part, has said virtually nothing about its P-2 program. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, an arms analysis group...
Iran and the nuclear spin cycle According to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, with 1000 working centrifuges at Natanz, it would take just over two years to produce enough highly enriched uranium for a...
Iran and 'The Bomb' Iran's nuclear programme consists of the following; a 5 MW research reactor (bought from the US in the 1960s), a 30 KW miniature neutron source reactor, a 1000 MW reactor currently being constructed...
Iran expanding, reinforcing atomic sites "It will be very difficult to erase the knowledge they have achieved," said Mark Fitzpatrick, nuclear affairs expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
Iran is racing down nuclear route Mark Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, argued that "negotiating with a country to roll back" a programme was rarely...
Iran follows Saddam in defying the UN A dossier published last year by the International Institute for Strategic Studies estimated that, under perfect conditions, 3,000 centrifuges could turn out 25kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU),...