Strategic Survey 2004/5: An evaluation and forecast of world affairs.Strategic Survey 2004/5: An evaluation and forecast of world affairs Noun 1. world affairs - affairs between nations; "you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television" international affairs affairs - transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state" , The International Institute for Strategic Studies The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is a British research institute (or think tank) in the area of international affairs. It describes itself as "the world’s leading authority on political-military conflict". , publ. by Routledge, 2005, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-415-37394-8, 384 pp., order information available at http://www.iiss.org/showpage. php?pageID=131. Strategic Survey is the Institute's annual review--and, to a lesser degree, projection--of strategic developments throughout the world. Strategic Survey is a journal of record that includes all relevant names and titles, chronologies and dates, and also a work of analysis. Strategic Survey opens with "Perspectives," an assessment of the effect of major events and trends on the strategic landscape. Next, particular strategic policy issues, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or , missile defence, or the future of peacekeeping peace·keep·ing adj. Of or relating to the preservation of peace, especially the supervision by international forces of a truce between hostile nations. peace , are examined in separate chapters. Another 20 chapters, written along thematic lines, cover developments in particular regions or countries. Strategic Survey concludes with "Prospectives," an essay setting forth strategic priorities for the coming year. Also included are 32 pages of maps depicting strategically important activity and political change--such as piracy piracy, robbery committed or attempted on the high seas. It is distinguished from privateering in that the pirate holds no commission from and receives the protection of no nation but usually attacks vessels of all nations. and Russia's new federal districts--globally, regionally, and locally. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is the world's leading authority on political-military conflict, with headquarters in London and offices in the US and Singapore. Founded in 1958, much of its early work focused on nuclear deterrence Noun 1. nuclear deterrence - the military doctrine that an enemy will be deterred from using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a consequence; "when two nations both resort to nuclear deterrence the consequence could be mutual destruction" and arms control arms control Limitation of the development, testing, production, deployment, proliferation, or use of weapons through international agreements. Arms control did not arise in international diplomacy until the first Hague Convention (1899). . During the 1980s and 1990s, its mandate became to look at the problems of conflict, however caused, that might have an important military content. From "Sudan: Africa's New Test Case": Eastern Sudan, yet another deeply impoverished and marginalized region, has all the makings of a destabilizing crisis as well. Clashes in Port Sudan in late January between members of the Beja ethnic group and Sudanese police left an estimated 14-29 people dead and hundreds reportedly arrested. Eastern Sudan is home to over a million Darfurians who have migrated over the last decade in search of work, and the Eritrea-based Beja Congress recently issued a joint declaration with the SLA [Sudan Liberation Army], vowing to 'continue their struggle together to end marginalization, poverty, ignorance and backwardness'. The Beja Congress has also joined forces with another eastern rebel group, the Free Lions, to form the coalition Eastern Front, and both groups boycotted talks held in Cairo in January 2005 between Khartoum and the NDA [National Democratic Alliance], claiming that the forum failed to address the problems of eastern Sudan. |
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