Outline Partnership Proposal - $250,000 p.a.

over 3 years:
The Clinton Foundation and IISS

January 2011

Contact: Grant@IISS.org

The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Arundel House, 13–15 Arundel Street
Temple Place London WC2R 3DX
United Kingdom
 Outline Partnership Proposal – the Clinton Foundation and IISS

Summary

The International Institute for Strategic Studies is an independent, non-partisan and international research
institution, the IISS is committed to advancing the wider understanding of the critical security issues of the
twenty-first century and their potential trends or resolution. As a registered not-for-profit organisation, the
Institute relies on charitable income to continue this vital work.

Following initial conversations with the Clinton Foundation, we are now proposing the creation of a new
strategic partnership, through which the Foundation will provide annual support of $250,000 per annum for
the next three years to support IISS’s research work. Building on the Institute’s comprehensive research
programme on thematic and regional security challenges, this will include developing a new programme of
research on conflict resolution.

IISS research

IISS is globally recognised as a leading research body on established and emerging security threats. A
comprehensive research programme under the Institute’s Director of Studies covers a nexus of security
challenges and responds to them both thematically and regionally. Our current research outlook covers six
broad themes:

 Defence and Military Analysis

 Geo-Economics and Strategy
 Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
 Climate Change and Security
 Cyber Security
 Transnational Threats and International Political Risk

As Secretary Clinton has recognised in her public address to the Manama Dialogue, IISS’s research provides
an original, authoritative and constructive analysis (“a critical friend”) on many of the security and
humanitarian challenges facing the United States in its work to provide international security. IISS’s research
has, to date, informed government responses to issues including the Arab Spring and regional stability, the
emergence of China as a global super power, and containments options for a potentially nuclear Iran, and is
sought widely by government analysts and officials in both western and non-western countries.

With support from the Foundation, we will continue to publish research and analysis dealing with current international
security and humanitarian issues of concern to the United States and wider international community.

The primary distribution channel for this research will be through our publications which are universally
regarded as providing excellent independent, internationally sourced information and commentary on events
and issues of importance to national, regional and global security. These will be distributed to governments,
international organisations and the wider IISS membership to ensure the global security community is
provided with the best possible objective information on relevant military and political developments.

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In recognition of the Foundation’s support, we will also establish a new IISS research programme addressing
conflict resolution, looking at how actors – both military and non-military – can best respond to the political,
social and economic impacts of conflict in order to provide sustainable and humanitarian solutions. This will
include the development of “track two” meetings around the world for ministerial and non-governmental
agencies to discuss how common interests can be advanced.

Our partnership

In return for supporting the Institute’s research, the IISS will provide the Clinton Foundation with a range of
tailored benefits commensurate with our highest-tier corporate membership package. This will include:

 Private briefings from IISS experts on specific security issues in order to assist the Clinton Foundation in
its own research. Where travel is necessary, this will be provided separately by the Foundation in line with
the Institute’s travel policy (business class and appropriate accommodation should be provided to IISS
researchers)
 Guaranteed places for 2 delegates at either of the IISS’s security conferences – the Shangri-La Dialogue or
the Manama Dialogue. This will be independent to any benefits/delegate places extended to Secretary
Clinton in her official capacity as Secretary of State of the United States of America.
 Ten sets a year of the Institute’s publications – the Survival journal, the Adelphi book series, the Strategic
Survey, the Strategic Comments, the Armed Conflict Survey and The Military Balance.

Next steps

The Institute’s Director-General and Chief Executive would be honoured to meet formally with senior
representation from the Foundation to discuss the development of an effective, mutually-beneficial
partnership and the parameters of the Foundation’s support. Details of the Director-General’s travel schedule
can be obtained from Sarah Grant (Grant@IISS.org), Special Assistant to the Director-General.