Without ignoring the two wars that are currently taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) sought to reframe the debate over security within a global context. Thus Mr. Rodman's address sets contemporary security challenges to the United States within a framework of both an Islamist challenge rising from the Jihadi movement across the Muslim world that mostly finds its expression in terrorism and in the dynamics of the rise and decline of great powers.

"September 2007." Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 10, 2007). Mode of access: Internet via the World Wide Web.

War on Terror/Islamist extremism -- Relations among the major powers -- Conclusions and implications.