Strategic Survey 2005–2006

"Strategic Survey" is a journal of record that includes all relevant names and titles, chronologies and dates.

But it is also much more: the hard facts are embossed in considered and nuanced analysis over 300 pages of text. "Strategic Survey" opens with "Perspectives", an assessment of the effect of major events and trends on the strategic landscape.

Next, particular strategic policy issues, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, missile defence or the future of peacekeeping, are examined in separate chapters.

Another 18 to 20 chapters of similar length, written along thematic rather than merely chronological lines, cover developments in particular regions or countries. "Strategic Survey" concludes with "Prospectives", an essay setting forth strategic priorities for the coming year.

Also included are 32 pages of maps depicting strategically important activity and political change - such as piracy and Russia's new federal districts - globally, regionally and locally.

The interplay of political developments and the actual or potential use of military force remains "Strategic Survey's" chief concern. Nevertheless, since the end of the Cold War and of the first distinct post-Cold War period, the Institute has recognised that any survey of matters strategic needs to broaden its scope to embrace economic globalisation and other aspects of the "post-modern" world.