Democracy will not end tyranny By Dr. John Chipman CMG, Director-General and Chief Executive, The International Institute for Strategic Studies
Mind the military gap Yet the Europeans are fielding more peacekeepers than they used to - hence the over-stretch. While Britain and France are doing most, others are doing more. According to International Institute for...
Bush tries to quell uproar on Iraq report Mamoun Fandy, a security expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in London, was skeptical of parts of the report. "If the Americans got it wrong on Iraq the first time...
Israel 'not worried' about a nuclear Egypt Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, an anti-proliferation organization, told the BBC the plans by Egypt, Turkey, and Iran, let alone Israel,...
Egypt's intentions queried Mark Fitzpatrick, non-proliferation expert at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the significance of Egypt's plans should not be exaggerated. But he said there did appear to...
Concern over Middle East nuclear plans "It is easy to exaggerate and it is true that these countries have a right to seek all sources of energy but it is indisputable that there is also a strategic element to this," said Mark...
The challenges in Afghanistan According to the 2006 edition of "The Military Balance," published annually by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the United States spends about 4 percent of its gross...
Nations raise stakes in arms race “One of the biggest dangers of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapons capability is that it would spur a nuclear arms race in the region,” said Mark Fitzpatrick, an expert on nuclear...
A Virtual US-Iran Dialogue Nearly every think tank worth it's name has been disseminating studies of the Iranian nuclear issue. The best I've see are Scott Sagan's article in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, "How to...
The First Five Years Over the last year, the Iranian issue has raised concerns about the SCO in Western capitals. “It strikes me as strange that one would want to bring into an organization that says it’s...
Previous coups in Thailand May 1992: Suchinda is forced from power when troops gun down at least 50 pro-democracy demonstrators in Bangkok. In the aftermath of the violence, his appointed prime minister resigns. King Bhumibol...
International Day of Peace? After all, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, there are 65 ongoing international and internal armed conflicts across the world today, and this 24-hour event...
The Start of a Long War The Fourth International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Global Strategic Review meeting, which took place in Geneva on Sept. 8-10, dealt with the topic, "New Thinking on Conflict and...
NATO fight in Afghanistan risks long-term aim But the involvement of British and Canadian troops in some of the heaviest violence since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 shows that logic was flawed, and has put the relatively benign image of NATO's...
Russia and Japan: facing dire straits Vladivostok, home of the Russian Pacific Fleet, is bigger. But Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula is the only large, northern Pacific naval base that stays ice-free almost...
Iranian nuclear issue putting region at risk The outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988 and the nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan and India in May 1998 pushed Iran to consider the ownership of nuclear weapons as an authorized capital...
Blair calls for alliance of global values Last week, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies reported that the more dramatic external ambitions of the US were being informally buried by the Bush presidency....
Taliban romp in the poppy fields The increased volatility has posed great difficulties for the coalition troops and for the governments who have decided to send them there. At the obvious security level, the question is whether...
Some see Pakistan's truce as a defeat The truce is "recognition of previous military policies not being successful," Patrick Cronin, a South Asia expert at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, said by...
S. Korea, U.S. to revisit alliance But the Roh government's policy of engaging North Korea contrasts with Washington's hardening line against Pyongyang over its nuclear programs. The North Korea issue -- and growing fears in Seoul...