Talk:International Institute for Strategic Studies

message: I have removed the 'citation needed' tag at the end of the Criticism section. The source is clearly stated in the text of the paragraph. I encourage the person who placed the tag to take the trouble to read the paragraph. --Gunnermanz (talk) 02:06, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: And what’s the source for that statement of a source? 🤣 — I’m not that person nor agree with her, but… Yeah, Wikipedia is built entirely on logical fallacies (mostly ad autoritam). And held together by people who believe their beliefs are the one true reality, despite having no education in scientific philosophy whatsoever and not even being free or even aware of their simplest triggers and perceptive distortions. … So you’re forced to get this sort of nonsense all the time. … Reality is relative, and one can’t just act as if there’s an absolute one. That’s just basic scientific education (At least outside of the US). … Observation and the reliability of predictions by patterns we detected, is all we got. And everybody's observation is necessarily different, due to relativity and due to how neurons are just machines for distorting perception based on past input. … So in the end, the only one who can watch the watchmen and be the ultimate watchman, is oneself.  … In other words: A source that isn't verified by the reader himself, is exactly equivalent to a statement without any source. QED — 2A0A:A546:B809:1:C8AC:5948:80D1:3F39 (talk) 08:37, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed 'citation needed' tag 

message: Why are these statements in an "encyclopaedia"?
:You should be more specific - which statements?
:Anyway, I removed these ones: Crosbiesmith 11:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The text says he's a journalist, but the link is to a medic. Is the link pointing to the wrong man?
:Yes.  I have removed the link.  Thanks. - Crosbiesmith (talk) 11:59, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buchan 

message: Remove outdated "The 2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index ranked IISS as the ninth-best think tank worldwide."
Replace with updated "The 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index ranked IISS as the third-best think tank for Defense and National Security, and the thirteenth-best overall worldwide."
Link: 
http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=think_tanks
213.133.131.194 (talk) 14:39, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I have updated IISS as the thirteenth-best overall worldwide. Altamel (talk) 03:36, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Request

message: IISS council members
To bring the list up to date, the following names should be added to the list:
Joanne de Asis, founder and chairperson, Asia Pacific Capital Partners
Bill Emmott, journalist
 
Michael Fullilove, academic
Marillyn A. Hewson, Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin
Badr H. Jafar, President of Crescent Petroleum
Bilahari Kausikan, Ambassador-at-large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
Chung Min Lee, Professor of International Relations, Yonsei University
Lord Powell of Bayswater
Ambassador Andrés Rozental, President, Rozental & Asociados
The following should be removed from the list:
Professor Eliot Cohen, Marta Dassu, Dr Istvan Gyarmati, Professor Peter Ho, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Tadashi Maeda.
Source: http://www.iiss.org/en/about-s-us/the-s-council
  
Link updates
Director John Chipman’s Wikipedia page should be linked to in the body text (he appears twice, once under the ‘overview’ heading and once under ‘directors’.
Additional text for the overview section
The current text contains some slight inaccuracies regarding the scope Shangri-La Dialogue and Manama Dialogue, and makes no mention of IISS research work, which is the basis of the think tank’s operations. IISS suggests the following text to describe IISS research, events and publications:
 
The Institute’s 12 research programmes generate the thinking at the heart of its work. Dozens of experts and consulting experts contribute to the institute’s research studies. Research includes work under seven thematic programmes:
 
Programme (Senior research fellow)
Armed Conflict	(Anastasia Voronkova)
Future Conflict and Cyber Security (Sean Kanuck)
Defence and Military Analysis (Bastian Giegerich)
Economic and Energy Security (Pierre Noel)
Geo-economics and Strategy (Alia Moubayed)
Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Policy (Mark Fitzpatrick)
Security and Development (Virginia Comolli)
There are also five regional security programmes:
Programme (Senior research fellow)
Asia-Pacific (Dr Tim Huxley)
Middle East and the Gulf (Sir John Jenkins)
Russia and Eurasia
	
South Asia (Rahul Roy-Chaudhury)
US Foreign Policy & Transatlantic Affairs (Dr Dana Allin)
Notable former employees include HR McMaster, United States National Security Advisor, and diplomat Rose Gottemoeller, currently Deputy Secretary General of NATO. Orwell Prize-winning academic and journalist Anatol Lieven also worked at the Institute, as did James Steinberg, former US Deputy Secretary of State.The institute has worked with governments, defence ministries and global organisations including NATO and the European Union.
 
Events
Since 2002 the Institute has hosted the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, a conference on Asia–Pacific security issues featuring heads of state, defense ministers and security experts from the region and around the world. In 2017 Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said: “The Shangri-La Dialogue has grown to become one of the world’s great strategic gatherings.”
The annual IISS Manama Dialogue, held in the Kingdom of Bahrain, sees global heads of state and high-ranking ministers discuss defense and political issues related to the Middle East. In 2015 Egyptian president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi described the dialogue as a “major regional event focusing on regional security issues and everything that impacts upon them”.
In recent years the Institute has hosted smaller conferences including the Bahrain Bay Forum and NATO transformation seminar, and regularly holds debates and panel discussions at its offices around the world.
Publications
The IISS publishes The Military Balance, an annual assessment of nations' military capabilities. Since 2017 it has also published Military Balance+, an online database on the same subject.
 
The Institute also publishes the Armed Conflict Database; Survival, a journal on global politics and strategy; Strategic Survey, the annual review of world affairs; and Strategic Comments, online analysis of topical issues in international affairs. Since its inception the Institute has published the Adelphi series of books, covering topical strategic issues. Recent editions have covered subjects such as Chinese cyber power, conflict in Ukraine, negotiating with armed groups and the Iraq War.
In 2011 the Institute published the FARC files – documents captured from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia that shed light on the movement’s inner workings. It regularly publishes one-off briefing papers and dossiers.
Ordering
Currently, a relatively lengthy description of the organisation’s history sits above a breakdown of its activities. IISS feels that reversing this order would make it easier for readers to understand the work of the Institute. Doing so would mirror the approach taken in the Wikipedia entry for Chatham House, the organisation closest in nature to IISS.''
BurnettIISS (talk) 15:48, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: BurnettIISS, I will indicate that McMaster is a former employee. Someone made many of the edits you requested, even though they were declined by Spintendo. I have removed most of the bare links to IISS's own website about events, as they are primary sources to self-published content by the subject of the article.--FeralOink (talk) 07:41, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: proposed changes from COI user

message: “Think tanks”, as an euphemism for “lobbyists”, is itself is an euphemism for traitors: Anti-democratic elements, that, together with puppet politicians, commit this felony. (In most states, treason gets one 20 years in prison, or worse. Equivalent to murder.) … So the question is always: Who’s behind it? Or, more precise: Who finances them? Whose goals do they pursue? … This is missing from the article, as of now. And when somebody adds it, the article has of course to be protected, from those same elements deleting it again. (Be careful: It’s easy for such organizations to manipulate their way to becoming admins. That’s pretty much their job, after all. So the edits could come from the “inside”.) — 2A0A:A546:B809:1:C8AC:5948:80D1:3F39 (talk) 08:27, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who owns the traitor cell IISS?