Letter from the President and Founder

German entrepreneur and geostrategist Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann is Founder and President of the World Security Network Foundation, an international, independent, nonprofit organization, the largest global elite network for foreign and security policy with more than 303,000 elite users all over the world who receive our weekly electronic newsletter, publishing this website with more than 2 million hits monthly with analysis and proposals, supported by 60 mostly young editors from 27 nations, an International Advisory Board of 56 well-known experts from 17 countries-including 14 generals and admirals-and more than 200 authors from all over the world. 158 media partners and 85 institutes cooperate with WSN and make use of its analysis "Networking a safer world".

The World Security Network is:

• not American, Asian or European: we are the largest global-elite action network for foreign and defense affairs—focussing on the young, new elite of the world
• not left or right, not U.S. Republican or U.S. Democrat or an adherent to any other party-line: it is an independent, international and pluralistic non-profit organization.
• not a peace movement or an organization of warmongers: it promotes a realistic and credible balance of Realpolitik and Idealpolitik, of power and diplomacy, of necessary military actions and reconciliation—a Double Strategy of solid and realistic peacemaking
• not academic: it is solution-oriented, looking for concrete proposals for all conflicts
• not bureaucratic: we are creative and action-oriented, like businessmen
• not fanatical: we are engaged global citizens with the vision of networking a safer and better world for our children

What we are:

• a new kind of global foreign affairs action network in the age of globalization using the internet and local Task Force meetings.
• 56 respected experts from 17 countries—the U.S., Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, Turkey, France, Switzerland, Austria, Estonia, Kosovo, Hungary, Italy, Armenia, Israel, Lebanon, India and Pakistan—including fourteen generals and admirals (Luigi Caligaris, Klaus Naumann, Aslam Khan Niazi, Peter Regli, Klaus Reinhardt, Ed Rowny, Bill Odom, Götz Gliemeroth, Lord Peter Inge, Sir Sebastian Roberts, Chuck Saffell, Franco Apicella, Giovanni Bernardi, Wolfgang Plasche), journalists (Herbert Kremp, Jens Krüger, Thomas Lipscomb, Henning von Steuben) , professors and scholars (Ehsan Ahrari, Mensur Akgün; Abbas J. Ali, Ron Asmus; Klaus Becher, J.D. Bindenagel, Robert Dujarric; Mehmet Guercan Daimagueler, Peter Forster, Ortwin Gebauer, Amin Hashwani, Christian Hacke, Robert Hunter, Michael Inacker, Judith Apter Klinghoffer, Jackson Janes, Joachim Krause, Ludger Kühnhardt, Holger Mey, Mark Minevich, Mike Munson, John Nomikos, Ivo Paparela, Andreas Pruefert, Arben Qirezi, Sergey Rogov, Thomas Schneider, Francis J. Kelly, Ruben Safrastyan) and politicians (George Fernandes, Samy Gemayel, Geza Jeszenszky; Tunne Kelam, Joe Schmitz, Peter Kurt Würzbach, Thomas Schneider) advises WSN
• 60 mostly young editors with 27 nationalities report from New York, Washington D.C., Tokyo, Paris, Vienna, London, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Bruxelles, Sarajevo, Australia, Dubai, Mexiko, Causcasus, Rome, Moscow, Singapore, Beirut, New Delhi, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, Pakistan, Nepal and Peru led by WSN Global-Editor-in-Chief BrigGen (Ret.) Dieter Farwick, former Director of Germany's "Federal Armed Forces Intelligence Office" and close aid to former German Defense Minister and later NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner.
• 2 million hits per month on www.worldsecuritynetwork.com
• 303,000 members of the international information elite -including more than 125,000 members of foreign affairs networks, 65,000 business executives and lawyers, 40,000 professors and students of elite universities, 32,000 journalists, 19,000 foreign and defense specialists, 6,000 religious leaders and more than 3,000 members and staff of parliaments - receive our weekly electronic newsletter. This makes it the largest of its kind worldwide.
• WSN TV provides video streams with exclusive statements from leading global experts on hot topics in foreign and defense affairs. As well WSN TV, focusing on the young, new elite of the world with its WSN Academy, provides an internet-based learning platform distributing the wisdom of senior experts and mentors in basic questions of foreign policy, transferring their decades of know-how to the next generation.
• more than 200 authors
• over 158 media partners (including CNN, UPI and Newsweek) and 85 institutes (including RAND and IISS) cooperate with WSN and make use of our analysis and proposals.
• WSN supports the young elite with a Scholarship program. In 2004, Dmitry Udalov, the nineteen-year-old President of the Student’s Association in Moscow, received an invitation for his first visit to New York and Washington D.C. He is now Editor Russia. In 2005, Manuela Paraipan, from Romania was awarded the WSN Scholarship to visit Beirut as Editor Broader Middle East.
• In 2004 WSN President Hubertus Hoffmann published a WSN book on his mentor for 25 years Fritz Kraemer on Excellence. Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist with contributions by Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, and Donald Rumsfeld. (more in www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer)

• WSN is also working on the international Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect for parents, educator, religious leaders, journalists and politicians with a toolbox to promote tolerance and respect between different religions and ethnic minorities in the world.

What we want:

• “Networking a Safer World” with the vision of implementing the goals of the UN Charter—mutual respect and tolerance, human rights, economic growth
• to rouse people out of their apathy, to raise awareness of trouble spots before war breaks out, to outline proposed solutions and to draw media attention to security issues at an early stage
• to network the strategic community focussing on the new young global elite in foreign and defense affairs specialists
• convey new, creative ideas and policy recommendations to decision-makers at the lightning speed of the internet.

What you can do:

Join the World Security Network now - register here for free - and become:

• a subscriber to our newsletter for only USD 99 a year
  
  
• a friend, trustee or a patron supporting our global elite network with a donation
  
  
• an author publishing your own analysis "Networking a Safer World" with us
  
  
• a media partner or foundation partner using our analysis and proposals
  
  
• add your comments and ideas to the WSN Proposals (right side yellow)

Contact the global team of the World Security Network Foundation "Networking a Safer World" now at info@worldsecuritynetwork.com !