Secretary-General and Senior Representatives to Gather to Discuss Key
International Threats, Powers and Changes
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) will bring together over three hundred senior government officials, leading researchers, and many of the Institute’s influential members from around the world to discuss and address some of the world’s most critical issues at the 5th IISS Global Strategic Review (GSR), to be held in Geneva from 7-9 September 2007.
The Keynote Address will be delivered by NATO Secretary-General Jakob Gijsbert ‘Jaap’ de Hoop Scheffer and is titled ‘The Role of NATO in Meeting Global Challenges.’ Other noteworthy speakers include: His Excellency Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization; Dr Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations; Dr. James Shinn, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs, the U.S. Department of Defense; Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, US Navy Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Commander, U.S. Fifth Fleet, and Commander, Combined Maritime Forces; and Mohammed Dahlan, National Security Chief of the Palestinian Authority.
"The Global Strategic Review is the 'Davos' for strategic thinkers. In one weekend in Geneva, you gain insight from officials and experts about what risks and opportunities are really driving global security" said Dr. Patrick Cronin, IISS Director of Studies and organizer of the GSR.
Among other distinguished speakers and invited participants are leading scholars Professor Mary Kaldor, Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics, Dr Joseph S. Nye, Jr, University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University; Dr Antonia T Okoosi-Simbine, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Ibadan; Dr Keith Krause, Director, Programme in Strategic and International Security Studies, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva; Peter Ackerman, Founding Chair, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict; Ambassador Barry Desker, Dean, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Dr. Farhad Kazemi, Provost and Professor of Middle East Politics New York University; Dr. Rose Gottemoeller, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center; and Professor Martin van Creveld of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
The 2007 GSR will have five plenary sessions on: Economic Security; Energy and Environmental Security; Keeping the Peace and Peacekeeping; Fissures in the Middle East; and Managing Global Risk. The GSR will also have eight Break-Out Groups to include: Managing Global Proliferation; The Changing Face of Violence; Winning Complex War; Turning Guns into Ploughshares; Managing Transnational Terrorism; Energy and Eurasia; Trends, Shocks and Strategic Surprises; and The Persian Gulf Region.
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About The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
The IISS is an international membership organisation based in London, and is both a limited company in UK law and a registered charity. It has offices in the US and in Singapore that operate under its name with charitable status in each jurisdiction. Founded in 1958, much of the Institute’s early work focused on nuclear deterrence and arms control, and the Institute was influential in setting the intellectual structures for managing the Cold War. Over the last decade the IISS has become a truly global organisation, with individual and corporate members in over one hundred countries. The Institute’s high-profile publications are universally regarded as providing the best independent, internationally sourced information and commentary on the main strategic events touching on national, regional and global security. The IISS owes no allegiance to any government, or to any political or other organisation. The Institute's conference activities are considered to be at the forefront of public policy development, given that its convening power is such that it can often bring government officials and others together in forum that they could not easily manage for themselves.
