Global Strategic Review 2011

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Global Strategic Review 2011 Sixth Plenary Session: Ten Years On: Terror, War and Strategy

'New Strategic Landscapes'

The 9th IISS Global Strategic Review has concluded in Geneva.
The conference ran from 09-11 September 2011. In the final plenary session a panel including Carl Bildt, the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs reflected on the tenth anniversary of the 11 September attacks. Watch the discussion The GSR 2011 Keynote Address was given by Amr Moussa,

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Global Strategic Review 2011 Keynote Address - Amr Moussa

Amr Moussa, recently Secretary General of the Arab League and now Egyptian presidential candidate, gave the opening Keynote Address of the 2011 Global Strategic Review.

"In the next few years, you are going to see a Middle East based on democracy, on reform, and on serious and genuine economic and social development..." he argued in his address. Read More

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Discussion Panel: A Long Term Strategy for Afghanistan

A panel of IISS experts debated a long term strategy for Afghanistan in a special discussion on Saturday night at the 2011 Global Strategic Review.

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IISS Voices at the GSR:

Keeping Nuclear Terrorism a Threat Only in Theory

What constitutes military capability?

China’s growing Middle East role

Leading from behind? Not so much

Strategic change in the Middle East and North Africa

In the First Plenary Session a panel including the journalists and analysts Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Issandr El Amrani, Karim Sadjadpour and IISS Senior Fellow for Middle East Security Emile Hokayem considered 'Strategic change in the Middle East and North Africa '. Later Saturday HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal, Chairman, Board of Directors, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies called for a WMD Free Zone in the region.

New Strategic Landscapes

Antonio Patriota, Minister of External Relations, Brazil speaks in the 3rd Plenary Session 'Crises, Conflict and Intervention: Global Perspectives'

Antonio Patriota, the Minister of External Relations of Brazil and Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations provided perspectives from rising powers on 'Crises, conflict and intervention' in the Third Plenary Session of the GSR.

Other sessions examined US Politics and American Foreign Policy Debate and the global implications of The Rise of a Militarised Asia

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IISS Newsletter Autumn 2011

The Autumn 2011 IISS Newsletter contains a full account of the of the plenary sessions and discussions of the Global Strategic Review 2011 which was held in Geneva from 9-11 September.

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