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
Speaking at a conference in The Hague in November 2009, IDC's John Laughland attacked the theories of liability used in today's international criminal tribunals...
