The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Monday 15 March 2010

About Strategic Comments

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Strategic Comments, the IISS online publication providing analysis of important world events, is being re-styled from the beginning of 2010. Instead of the previous ten issues a year, each containing five comments, readers will receive each comment individually in an easy-to-read e-mail.

‘The redesign is intended to make Comments more accessible and immediate for members and subscribers,’ said Alexander Nicoll, Editor of Strategic Comments and IISS Director of Editorial.

To read each Comment, readers will no longer need to click through to the IISS website or provide a password.

The Strategic Comments page within the IISS website is also being redesigned. It will display all recent Comments and provide a route to the archive of past Comments.

Members and subscribers will continue to receive the same number of Comments each year – at least 50. In addition, they will occasionally receive short videos or podcasts featuring IISS experts commenting on particular developments.

If you are already an IISS member or subscriber, you need do nothing to continue to receive Strategic Comments e-mails. If you would like to start receiving Strategic Comments e-mails, Please Click Here.

If you have a question about the changes, please address it to strategic.comments@iiss.org

Strategic Comments is the Institute’s online source of analysis of international security and politico-military issues. Strategic Comments briefing papers offer succinct and cogent insights of consistent authority to its core readership of policy-makers, journalists, business executives and foreign-affairs analysts. Since its foundation in 1995, Strategic Comments has harnessed the considerable expertise of the Institute’s research staff and members, as well as the broader strategic studies community.

There are four ways to access Strategic Comments:

Receive 50 Strategic Comments a Year via Email: Purchasers will receive each comment individually in a convenient e-mail. In addition, Recipients will occasionally receive short videos or podcasts featuring IISS experts commenting on particular developments. They are also able to access the full archive of Strategic Comments going back to 1995.
Become an IISS Member: IISS Members receive Strategic Comments as well as other IISS publications including The Military Balance, Survival and Strategic Survey and other benefits.
Subscribe through our publishers Taylor & Francis: Receive Strategic Comments in 10 updates throughout the year, also access to the full Strategic Comments Archive via the Informaworld website. Particularly suitable for institutional subscribers.
Via the IISS website: The nine most recent Strategic Comments are available free of charge on the IISS website. Older articles can be purchased individually for £5.

'Strategic Comments fills an important niche in the panteon of publications of the IISS. Foreign-affairs experts and business executives who rely on timely and accurate analyses of breaking international developments will find it invaluable'

Dr Henry Kissinger

'Crisp, relevant and informative'

Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

‘Strategic Comments offers the rarest but most valuable of
qualities in our overloaded age – brevity and cogency’
Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post

'Strategic Comments fills a major gap in coverage of strategic issues through up-to-date and authoritative commentaries'

Dr Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former US National Security Advisor

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