We chose the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where I'm quite active.
Mr. MARK FITZPATRICK (Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies-London): Well, Germany is of two minds.
Human exposure to cyclosarin can cause shortness of breath, muscle spasms, unconsciousness and death, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
"Iraq is a reactor that's overheating and there's little coolant available, " said Ramzy Mardini, an analyst at the Beirut-based Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies.
He is likely to be just as canny over disabling his Yongbyon facilities, says Mark Fitzpatrick of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Indeed, some sort of enrichment on Iranian soil may be essential to a negotiated deal, argues Mark Fitzpatrick of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Speaking to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mr Lobban said he did not want to go into detail about the threat to the UK's "critical national infrastructure".
But as a dossier of evidence on nuclear black markets published this week by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies points out, Mr Khan's business model wasn't unique.
So far, despite its tough line, says Gary Samore, of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, America has in effect acquiesced in North Korea's becoming a covert nuclear power.
Nigel Inkster of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
He's now at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Davood Moradian, who heads the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies in Kabul, says the Chinese are treading carefully, realizing they lack expertise in a complex political landscape that has tripped up other great powers.
Alma Sultangalieva, the director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies, views the development of Islamic dissent in the industrialised parts of the Fergana Valley more as a social issue triggered by high unemployment.
Phillip Mitchell, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, estimates that the 7th Armoured Brigade won't be ready for combat for at least six weeks, though British paratroopers and commandos will be ready sooner.
"I absolutely believe that al Qaeda and the threat of al Qaeda and Taliban senior leadership are critical to stability in the region, " McChrystal said in a speech to London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Notably, also on Wednesday, the US-based International Institute for Strategic Studies released a report concluding that Iran will have a sufficient quantity of highly enriched uranium to make an atomic bomb in a matter of months.
"We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region -- or on us, " said Gates, speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore.
In the best of circumstances, says Toby Dodge of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the task of training enough Iraqi troops to withstand the current insurgency would take at least five years, probably longer.
Previously, Ms. Gottemoeller served as Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London from 1994 to 1997 and as the National Security Council Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs at the White House from 1993 to 1994.
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Douglas Barrie, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, reckons that the air force will shrink dramatically, losing perhaps 200 jets through the early retirement of Tornadoes and Harriers and a scaling back of the plan for a 160-strong Typhoon fleet.
To survive and attract more help from the outside, the rebel groups need not only to rein in such behaviour but also to hone their military and political skills, says Emile Hokayem, a Bahrain-based analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
The designs themselves, suggests Gary Samore of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, may, like the North's uranium-enrichment technology, have come originally from Pakistan, whose uranium-based warheads are already fitted on North Korean Nodong rockets as part of Pakistan's nuclear force.
"China knows North Korea is useful as an irritant that prompts the U.S. and Japan to moderate their attitudes to China in the vain hope of eventual assistance on North Korea, " says Gerald Segal, director of studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
Dina Esfandiary, a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said last month that Syria embraced a chemical weapons program as a way to bolster its strategic strength despite economic weaknesses, especially after Israel imposed a series of humiliating military defeats on the Arab world.
Recently, the Institute for National Strategic Studies at NDU dedicated its 1997-98 annual writing competition on information warfare to Sun Tzu.
Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the nonproliferation and disarmament program of the Institute for International Strategic Studies in London, said while no breakthrough is in the cards this week, some "real negotiations" were possible.
"Those countries who, like Singapore, are committed to speedy trade liberalisation, fear that the WTO with its growing membership is becoming too unwieldy, " said Melina Nathan, a senior analyst at Singapore's Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies.
Documents from a variety of other entities including the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses as well as India Strategic defence magazine and FORCE magazine were compromised.
Narushige Michishita, a specialist in strategic and defense studies at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, says Kan needs to address the issue of defending Japan.
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