The Global Strategic Review, the annual conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, took place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 9 to 11 September 2011.
The Global Strategic Review, the annual conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, took place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 9 to 11 September 2011.
Terrorism and Political Violence July-August 2011
Therese Delpesh. Iran and the Bomb: The Abdication of International Responsibility. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 148 pp, $19.50 paper. ISBN: 978-0-231-70006-1.
The author, a director of strategic studies at the French Atomic Energy Commission and commissioner with the UN Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission, is well placed to independently assess this subject. She succeeds admirably.
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Just like North Korea, Iran is well down the road to nuclear weaponry
This article first appeared in the 11 June 2009 edition of The Irish Times and is reproduced here with their kind permission. Continue reading
Behind the negotiators on both sides looms the “Sadat Military Option” Continue reading
he issue of Iranian nuclear activities will not be solved by repeating Iranian propaganda on the matter. Continue reading
This article first appeared in the 12 June 2008 edition of The Irish Times and is reproduced here with their kind permission.
It is time for the international community to halt Iran’s nuclear programme – if Tehran obtains nuclear weapons, the Middle East will self-destruct. Continue reading
The public heaved a sigh of relief at the recent US intelligence announcement that Iran was not pushing its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 despite claims to the contrary , mixed with exasperation that yet again, the United States had misread the Middle East. Continue reading