Research

IDC's Director of Studies was the guest of the Fondazione Lepanto in Rome on 15 March 2012 where he gave a talk at the launch of Professor Roberto de Mattei's latest book, "The Euro against Europe".

One of Radovan Karadzic's legal advisers, Marko Sladojevic, explained at IDC's round table on 24 January how Karadzic plans to structure his Defence.

Speaking at IDC's conference on 24 January 2012, Stefan Karganovic of the Srebrenica Historical Project analysed nine years of extra-judicial agony in the trial of Vojislav Seselj, president of the Serbian Radical Party.

In his address to IDC on 8 December 2011, the president of the International Progress Organisation listed five reasons why the NATO military operation in Libya represents a violation of international law.

Head of the Department of International Relations at the TISBI School of Management in Kazan, Alexander Mezyaev analysed the legal and political implications of the NATO operation in Libya and the role of the International Criminal Court.

At the conference on the Soviet and Western interventions in Afghanistan, held at IDC on 30 September, Natalia Burlinova from the Foundation for Historical Outlook in Moscow discussed Russia's concerns at the future role of the USA and the West in Central Asia

Mohammed Omar Nessar, a Moscow-based Afghan, discusses the various threats emanating from Afghanistan and concludes that a resolution of the situation there requires terrorism to be tackled in Pakistan as well.

Georges-Henri Bricet des Vallons, an expert on private security firms, explains how the American army's practice of outsourcing important logistical tasks ends up pouring hundreds of millions of dollars a year into the pockets of the Taliban - the very people the US army is supposed to be fighting.

On 26 May 2011, IDC's Director of Studies addressed a seminar in Belgrade organised by the magazine Geopolitika and the Lord Byron Foundation. He spoke on Serbia's strategy for survival, in particular criticising the way national policy is subjugated to the imperatives of EU membership