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| Market | Report Title | Report Type | Country | Published | Cost |
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Slovenia Defence and Security Report 2009 | Market Report | Slovenia | 19/03/09 | £250.00 |
| Slovenia has made great progress during the 16 years since its declaration of independence. Politically, it is relatively stable, a position confirmed by the uneventful election of a new centre-left | |||||
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Ukraine Defence and Security Report 2009 | Market Report | Ukraine | 19/03/09 | £250.00 |
| In December 2008 the US and Ukraine signed a ‘charter on strategic partnership’, which was seen as ‘likely to annoy’ Russia. The agreement, signed by outgoing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice | |||||
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Serbia Defence and Security Report 2009 | Market Report | Serbia and Montenegro | 19/03/09 | £250.00 |
| A critical issue for Serbia’s security in 2008 was its position on the former province of Kosovo. Serbia lost control of Kosovo after a NATO-led military campaign in 1999, to stop a two-year conflict | |||||
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Argentina Defence and Security Report 2009 | Market Report | Argentina | 19/03/09 | £250.00 |
| A key issue in late 2008 was how Argentina would navigate through the emerging global economic slowdown, and what social and political tensions its chosen path might generate. Since taking office in | |||||
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Chile Defence and Security Report 2009 | Market Report | Chile | 19/03/09 | £250.00 |
| The Concertación centre-left ruling coalition of President Michelle Bachelet had another difficult year in 2008, suffering from relatively poor popularity ratings and a series of internal divisions. | |||||
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Mexico Defence and Security Report 2009 | Market Report | Mexico | 19/03/09 | £250.00 |
| The violent struggle between the government and Mexico’s drug cartels appeared to have reached a new level of ferocity in December 2008 when eight soldiers and one former police commander were | |||||
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Venezuela Defence and Security Report 2009 | Market Report | Venezuela | 19/03/09 | £250.00 |
| Economic growth is expected to slow down sharply in Venezuela in 2009, as a result of a tougher global economic climate and significantly lower oil prices. As a result, the government of President | |||||
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Jordan Defence and Security Report 2009 | Market Report | Jordan | 19/03/09 | £250.00 |
| In what was seen as a setback for the cause of reform, in early October 2008 King Abdullah replaced Basem Awadallah, who had been his closest reform adviser, appointing instead Nasser al-Lozi, a | |||||
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Yemen Defence and Security Report 2009 | Market Report | Yemen | 19/03/09 | £250.00 |
| Yemen faces a complex and dangerous mix of security problems. Its fiercely independent tribes have long been considered an important breeding ground for al-Qaeda Islamic extremists and North Yemen is | |||||
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Military Communications & COTS 2009-2019 - A Market in Retreat | Market Report | Global | 19/03/09 | £1,499.00 |
| Report: Global military communications industry worth more than $15bn Adoption of new commercially-available platforms and technologies has fuelled a global military communications industry worth | |||||
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Turkey Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Turkey | 12/03/09 | £250.00 |
| A joint report written by the Open Society Institute (OSI – chaired by international investor George Soros) and Turkey’s Bosphorus University contended that secularists were becoming increasingly | |||||
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United Kingdom Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | UK | 10/03/09 | £250.00 |
| A five-month trial of seven British men accused of plotting to smuggle liquid explosives onto transatlantic airlines in August 2006, so as to blow them up in mid-flight, ended in September. The jury | |||||
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Poland Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Poland | 10/03/09 | £250.00 |
| The short term development that continues to dominate is Poland’s agreement, on August 20 2008, to allow the US to install 10 interceptor missiles on Polish territory. The agreement calls for | |||||
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Greece Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Greece | 10/03/09 | £250.00 |
| Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYR Macedonia) in November said it was bringing a case against Greece to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of breaking a 1995 UN agreement | |||||
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Germany Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Germany | 10/03/09 | £250.00 |
| The German defence ministry has, according to reports, proposed contributing a naval frigate and up to 1,400 troops to the European Union’s anti-piracy mission off the Somali coast. Frankfurt’s | |||||
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France Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | France | 10/03/09 | £250.00 |
| In November 2008, it was announced that German soldiers would be deployed in France for the fist time since the end of the Second World War in 1945. The news came after a Paris meeting between | |||||
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Spain Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Spain | 10/03/09 | £250.00 |
| Spanish and French police captured 35-year old Mikel de Garikoitz Asiazu in November, initially describing him as a leader of the commando unit of ETA, the Basque separatist group, but later saying | |||||
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Italy Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Italy | 10/03/09 | £250.00 |
| Sicilian police said they had seized EUR700mn (US$884mn) worth of assets from a businessman accused of being a ‘banker’ to a fugitive Cosa Nostra underworld boss. Prosecutor Roberto Scarpinato said | |||||
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Central Asia Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Asia | 05/03/09 | £250.00 |
| Russia’s military action in the Georgian region of South Ossetia has been popular in Russia. Otherwise, within the region, it has demonstrated Russia’s determination to exercise a ‘strong’ foreign | |||||
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Russia Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Russia | 05/03/09 | £250.00 |
| As the financial crisis in Russia deepened in October 2008, the government was particularly proactive in developing policy mechanisms to shore up the economy and domestic capital markets. Thus far, | |||||
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Colombia Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Colombia | 05/03/09 | £250.00 |
| The early November 2008 resignation of General Mario Montoya, head of the Colombian armed forces, does not appear to signify the end of President Álvaro Uribe’s campaign to clean up the army’s image. | |||||
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Croatia Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Croatia | 04/03/09 | £250.00 |
| Croatia is certainly closing in on EU membership, having opened 21 of the 35 pre-accession negotiating chapters and closed three of them. The government has indicated that it is hoping to close | |||||
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Iran Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Iran | 04/03/09 | £250.00 |
| The two-fold underlying fundamental tension between Iran, on the one hand, and the US and key UN Security Council members on the other, over Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme, combined with its | |||||
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United Arab Emirates Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | United Arab Emirates | 27/02/09 | £250.00 |
| Although the UAE has established an enviable reputation for stability in the Middle East, it nonetheless scores fairly poorly in our long-term political risk ratings (64.3 out of a possible 100.0, | |||||
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Saudi Arabia Defence and Security Report Q1 2009 | Market Report | Saudi Arabia | 26/02/09 | £250.00 |
| The three months to the end of December brought several themes to the fore. One is the slight decrease in domestic terrorist activity in the face of the continued, systematic bolstering of security | |||||
