The GSR is the principal international venue for policy-relevant analysis of global foreign, defence and security policy by IISS members, officials, diplomats, military personnel, academics, commentators, media and business. Interdisciplinary in approach and cosmopolitan in its participants, the GSR each year audits the forces that are shaping international security conditions and anticipates the new factors that seem likely to come into play. It provides assessments of where new tensions may arise, but also points to areas that contain the possibility of progress towards conflict resolution. It generates original and useful thinking about the tools and structures - diplomatic, military, economic and bureaucratic - that national security establishments, regional security institutions and supra-national organisations will need in order to effectively pursue their priorities and discharge their mandates.
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