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Global Strategic Review

The Global Strategic Review, the annual conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, took place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 9 to 11 September 2011.

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Nuclear Weapons Reality on Iran and North Korea

Just like North Korea, Iran is well down the road to nuclear weaponry

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Afghanistan Update

The topic of Afghanistan was covered in a speech by Dr Liam Fox, Secretary of State for Defence, UK and also in a question-and-answer session with him. It also arose during many other discussions at the IISS conference in Geneva in September 2010. Continue reading

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Reflections on the International Institute for Strategic Studies Annual conference 2010

I attended the recent annual conference, the “Global Strategic Review”, as it is called, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (“IISS”) in Geneva on September 10-12 2010. Almost simultaneously the IISS published its 432-page Strategic Survey 2010 -The Annual Review of World Affairs.

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Doing Nothing about Iranian Nuclear Threat not an Option

This article first appeared in the 12 June 2008 edition of The Irish Times and is reproduced here with their kind permission.

It is time for the international community to halt Iran’s nuclear programme – if Tehran obtains nuclear weapons, the Middle East will self-destruct. Continue reading

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