Perspectives on international security: speeches and papers from the 50th anniversary year of the International Institute for Strategic Studies/ edited by Tim Huxley and Alexander Nicoll.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / John Chipman -- Introduction / Alexander Nicoll and Tim Huxley -- I. Global security dynamics. Address to the IISS 50th Anniversary Dinner / Carl Bildt -- Preventing a new age of nuclear insecurity / William Hague -- Current conflicts : Afghanistan / Francesc Vendrell -- European armies : the challenge / David Richards -- Europe and conflict resolution : isolated or engaged? / Karl Eikenberry -- Strategic Survey 2008 launch address / John Chipman -- The war in the Caucasus : causes and strategic implications / Oksana Antonenko -- II. Perspectives on Asian security. Keynote address to the 7th IISS Asia Security Summit, the Shangri-La Dialogue / Lee Hsien Loong -- Challenges to stability in the Asia-Pacific / Robert Gates -- Charting a new frontier : 'global Korea' in the twenty-first century / Han Seung-soo -- The future of East Asian security / Ma Xiaotian -- Keynote address to the 1st IISS-Citi India Global Forum / Shiv Shankar Menon -- Asian military modernisation : key areas of concern / Michael McDevitt -- Asian environmental concerns / Jeffrey Mazo -- III. The widening security agenda. Restoring peace in complex emergencies / Jakob Kellenberger -- Economics in conflict resolution / Ronald Cohen -- Assessing political risk / Nigel Inkster.