abstract:The World Security Institute (WSI) was an American think tank committed to independent research and journalism on global affairs. Based in Washington, DC, it emerged from the Center for Defense Information, which now exists in a research capacity as a component of the larger organization.
The report's author,Daniel Brumberg, acting director of the institute's Muslim World Initiative, says supporting democracy is actually crucial to U.S.security.
VOA: standard.2010.05.19
"It's a status quo document, I think, in virtually every respect, " said Bruce Blair, president of WorldSecurityInstitute and co-coordinator of Global Zero, a disarmament group.
Nikolai Zlobin, director of the Russia and Eurasia Project at the WorldSecurityInstitute in Washington, noted that Mr. Putin had also effectively mobilized his supporters in several cities notably with a large rally in Moscow on Feb. 4.
Russia has reluctantly agreed to remove its troops by 2008, but Ivan Safranchuk of the WorldSecurityInstitute says Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili wants them out as soon as possible since they stand in the way of his desire for Georgia to join NATO.