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Strategic Survey 2009

About Strategic Survey: The Annual Review of World Affairs 

Strategic Survey 2009


Strategic Survey is the annual review of world affairs from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It is an invaluable tool for interpreting worldwide strategic developments. Since 1966, it has provided the essential one-volume analysis of the year’s key events in international relations for government policy makers, journalists, business leaders and academics.

 

Strategic Survey 2009 begins as usual with Perspectives, an assessment of global developments over the past year, followed by three essays on particular strategic policy issues. Eight chapters analyse developments in individual countries, grouped by region. The book concludes with Prospectives, which briefly sets out the strategic outlook for the coming year. A chronology is provided in the Events at a Glance section, and the Strategic Geography section contains 19 pages of colour maps depicting strategically important activity and political change.

 

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Strategic Survey 2009: The Annual Review of World Affairs  Press Launch

Strategic Survey 2009 Launch - Q&A Session

 

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 the IISS launched Strategic Survey 2009, its annual review of world affairs. Dr John Chipman, IISS Director-General and Chief Executive, presented the main arguments of the book and commented on recent events. Dr Chipman, Alexander Nicoll, Editor of Strategic Survey, and other senior IISS experts then answered questions.

Watch the Launch and the Q&A Session.

 

Two events dominated 2008-09: the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, and the financial and economic crisis. The global recession overshadowed the ambitious efforts of the new US administration to set a fresh tone in international affairs. Strategic Survey 2009: The Annual Review of World Affairs examines in detail the effects of the two biggest developments, as well as other important events such as the deepening confrontations over the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programmes, and worsening violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 

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