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Perspectives on International Security - Speeches and Papers for the 50th Anniversary Year of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (Hardcover)
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Perspectives on International Security - Speeches and Papers for the 50th Anniversary Year of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (Hardcover)
Series: Adelphi series
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Like most years in the 50-year history of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), 2008 saw events that could
have significant consequences for international relations and
global balances of power. These included the election of Barack
Obama as US president; the brief war in Georgia, which caused the
West to look at Russia with more watchful eyes; and a cataclysmic
crisis in the worlds financial markets that seemed to threaten
globalisation and even capitalism, and to herald a period of
greater economic austerity. Even as these events occurred, the
security issues and risks that have been the core focus of the work
of the IISS during the past half-century continued to loom large,
among them nuclear proliferation and the relations between the
major powers. In addition to these perennial themes was another set
of issues that has in recent times risen higher on the
international security agenda, including the security ramifications
of natural disasters and environmental dangers such as climate
change. In its anniversary year, the IISS held several high-level
conferences around the world. Speeches given at these events
addressed all of these issues, and this Adelphi Paper offers a
selection of them. The speakers were statesmen, senior military
officers, high officials and international security experts. All
were concerned first and foremost with the pressing issues of the
moment, as their duties required them to be. But the fact that they
also addressed recurrent themes testifies to the enduring nature of
the strategic challenges faced by policymakers.
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