Similar facilities are planned in Beijing, Boston, London, Shanghai and Tokyo (Thurbon and Weiss 2005).

To guide the Committee, new officers were elected to serve at the fifty fourth and fifty fifth sessions Peter Burns (Australia), Chairman, Norman Gentner (Canada), Vice Chairman, and Wolfgang Weiss (Germany), Rapporteur.

Papers included such issues as defining and measuring human security, weapons of mass destruction and human rights, small arms and light weapons, human rights monitoring and armed conflict, and were written by Kevin Boyle, Sigmund Simonsen, Taylor Owen, Peter Weiss, John Burroughs, Barbara Frey, Michael O'Flaherty and David Petrasek.

My former student Allan Weiss and I have been campaigning since 1990 for better risk management institutions for real estate. In 1999, we co founded a firm, Macro Securities Research, LLC, to promote the development of such institutions, working with the American Stock Exchange to create securities that would allow people to manage real estate as well as other risks.

The US and its allies won the Cold War, for example, not so much by military means as by spreading the ideas of political freedom and market capitalism to other regions. In the words of the strategic analyst Stanley A. Weiss, this helped suck the lifeblood out of communism s global appeal, making it incapable of meeting the widespread yearning for a better and more open life.