ABSTRACT
For half a century, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has helped to define the field of global security and strategic studies through a series of influential monographs called the Adelphi Papers, which have appeared on an average of eight times per year since the early 1960s. The IISS – or the ISS, as it was known during its first decade, before it added another ‘I’ to reflect its international nature – inaugurated what would become a staple of strategic studies: carefully researched, scholarly studies which today fill the pigeonholes, inboxes and bookshelves of professors, journalists, éminences grises and policymakers around the world.
