Patokh Chodiev (Russian: Фаттох Каюмович Шодиев Fattoh Kayumovich Shodiev; born 15 April 1953, in Jizzakh (Uzbek SSR),[1] is a London-basedUzbek oligarch with Belgian citizenship who, with Alexander Mashkevich and Alijan Ibragimov, is part of the "Trio," a group of Central Asian businessmen who made their fortune through deals in minerals, oil, gas, and banking in Kazakhstan. Chodiev is currently ranked #287 on the Forbes list of billionaires.[2]
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is a British research institute (or think tank) in the area ofinternational affairs. It describes itself as "the world’s leading authority on political-military conflict". Since 1997 its headquarters have been Arundel House, in London. The 2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index ranked IISS as the ninth best think tank worldwide.[1]
Founded in 1958, with its original focus nuclear deterrence and arms control, the IISS has strong establishment links, with former US and British government officials among its members. The institute claims that it "was hugely influential in setting the intellectual structures for managing the Cold War." The current Director-General and Chief Executive is Dr John Chipman CMG. The Chairman of the Council is Francois Heisbourg, a former Director. Sir Michael Howard, the British military historian, is President Emeritus. Sir Michael founded the institute together with the British Labour M.P.Denis Healey (Defence Secretary 1964-1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974-1979) and journalist Alastair Buchan.[2]
The IISS describes itself as a
The Institute claims 2,500 Individual Members and 450 Corporate and Institutional Members from more than 100 countries.
The IISS publishes The Military Balance, an annual assessment of nations' military capabilities; the Armed Conflict Database; Survival, a journal on global politics and strategy; Strategic Survey, the annual review of world affairs; the Adelphi Papers series of monographs; and Strategic Comments, online analysis of topical issues in international affairs.
The Institute hosts the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual meeting of Asia-Pacific region Defense Ministers in Singapore, and the Manama Dialogue, an annual meeting of Persian Gulf-region security ministers and officials in Bahrain.
Based in London, the IISS is both a private company limited by guarantee in UK law and a registered charity.[3] It has branches in the U.S. and in Singapore, with charitable status in each jurisdiction.
- Alastair Buchan (1958 - 1969)
- François Duchêne (1969 - 1974)
- Christoph Bertram (1974 -1982)
- Robert J. O'Neill (1982 - 1987)
- François Heisbourg (1987 - 1992)
- Kristofer Huldt (1992 - 1993)
- John Chipman (1993 - )[4]
- Nigel Inkster
Current council members as of 2009 are:
- Professor François Heisbourg, Chairman
- Mr Hironori Aihara
- Professor Dr Dewi Fortuna Anwar
- Robert D. Blackwill, former U.S. Ambassador to India from 2001-2003 and diplomatic representative for several U.S. Republican presidents
- Mr Olivier Debouzy
- Ms Fleur de Villiers
- Mr Daniel R Fung
- Mr Shekhar Gupta
- Dr. István Gyarmati
- Mr David Ignatius
- Field Marshal The Rt Hon Lord Inge
- Ryozo Kato, former Japanese Ambassador to the United States from 2001 to 2008, current Commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball
- Mr Ivan Krastev
- Dr Ariel Levite
- Mr Kishore Mahbubani
- Sir David Manning, a career diplomat who served as British Ambassador to Israel from 1993-1995 and the United States from 2003-2007.
- Mr Moeletsi Mbeki
- Dr Günther Nonnenmacher
- Lord Powell of Bayswater
- HRH Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Mr Thomas Seaman
- Hugh Segal
- Alison Smale, the Executive Editor of the International Herald Tribune
- Ambassador Dr Theodor Winkler
Dr John Chipman CMG is Director-General and Chief Executive of The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He is Special Adviser to the Chairman of Reliance Industries (Mumbai) and member of the Board of Directors of private equity firm The Abraaj Group (Dubai) and consults widely. He speaks regularly to business audiences on political risk, regional security and global trends. He is the author of two books and numerous articles and opinion pieces.
He holds a BA (Hons) from Harvard, an MA (Distinction) from the London School of Economics and an M.Phil and D.Phil from Balliol College Oxford. Prior to assuming the Directorship of the IISS in 1993 he served as a Research Associate (1983-4), Assistant Director (1987-1990) and Director of Studies (1990-1993) at the IISS with a spell (1985-1987) as a Research Associate at the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in Paris.
As CEO of the IISS he has directed its growth globally as the world’s premier institute providing facts and analysis on international security issues and has developed its role as a convenor of vital inter-governmental summits. He conceived and established two regional security institutions under IISS auspices: the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore and the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. He is married to Lady Theresa (née Manners), daughter of the 10th Duke of Rutland, and has two sons.
Ordine Nuovo (Italian for "New Order"), full name Centro Studi Ordine Nuovo, "New Order Scholarship Center") was an Italian far right cultural and extra-parliamentary political and paramilitary organization founded by Pino Rauti in 1956. It had been the most important extra-parliamentary far-right organization of the post-war Italian republic.
The name is shared by Movimento Politico Ordine Nuovo, a splinter group of Centro Studi Ordine Nuovo.
The organization, considered as an attempt at reforming the Fascist Party (banned by the Constitution), was forcibly dissolved by the Italian government in 1973. Remaining elements of the group formed the Ordine Nero (Black Order) in 1974.
Members and a leader of Movimento Politico Ordine Nuovo participated in several terrorist attacks. These include the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, the 1970 Rome-Messina train attack, a grenade attack at a 1974 anti-fascist rally, and the 1974 Italicus Express bombing.
Stefano Delle Chiaie (born 13 September 1936 in Caserta) is a neofascist Italian activist (founder of Avanguardia Nazionale, 1960, member of Ordine Nuovo, and founder of Lega nazionalpopolare, 1991). He went on to become a wanted man worldwide, suspected of involvement in Italy's strategy of tension, but was acquitted. He was a friend of Licio Gelli, grandmaster of P2 masonic lodge. He was suspected of involvement in South America's Operation Condor, but was acquitted. He is known by his nickname caccola (shorty) as he is five feet tall - although he states that originally, the nickname came from his very young involvement, at age 14, in the Italian Social Movement (MSI, a neo-fascist party founded after the war);[1] the name is not particularly flattering as caccola, in Italian, also means "booger".
Previously, L'Ordine Nuovo ("The New Order") had been the name of a radical left-wing paper edited by Antonio Gramsci in the early 1920s, with Gramsci's followers being nicknamed "ordinovisti". However, later on the term - in Italian and various other languages - was appropriated by Fascists and Nazis, its original left-wing predecessors forgotten.
The extreme right-wing organization here referred to, whose members were also nicknamed ordinovisti, though being the political opposite of the earlier ones, was born from an internal current and then a schism in the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI). In 1954 Arturo Michelini, a moderate seeking an alliance with the Italian Monarchic Party, and possibly with the Christian Democracy, became general secretary of the MSI. This led to the schism of the most intransigent and spiritualist,Evolian current (Nazism was also a reference), led by Pino Rauti, Lello Graziani and Sergio Baldassini. They refused any compromise that brought the party apart from aristocratic principles. The intransigent and spiritualist Ordine Nuovo was then founded in Rome, but still a part of the MSI.
The real break with MSI happened at the MSI congress in Milan in 1956. Pino Rauti declared that, being disappointed with the moderate drift of the MSI, his movement would abandon the political scene, creating the "Centro Studi Ordine Nuovo", an association dedicated to "political studies and analysis". This wanted to be a literal application of the theses of Julius Evola, that is, an aristocratic refusal of contemporary, materialist society. Ordine Nuovo, nonetheless, had a capillary and hierarchical organization on the Italian territory, and often behaved more like an extra-parliamentary political organization than a simple "scholarship center".
