The Center is an independent Lebanese institution that was founded in Beirut in 1990 to take part in developing a new strategic awareness. To achieve this goal, the Center concentrated, since its establishment, on the geopolitical and strategic transformations that stormed the world since the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, especially their repercussions on the Arab and Islamic worlds. The Center is also interested in the issues concerning of the Arab regional order and the various suborders including the structural relations between the three spheres: The Arab, the Iranian and the Turkish. In view of these repercussions and their wide - ranging impact on the security, political, economic, cultural and military levels, the Center defined various main spheres that its activities - seminars, research workshops, research programmes and publications - should concentrate on, being. - The Arab - Israeli struggle. - The Arab Order. - The neighboring Islamic countries, especialy, Turkey and Iran. - The international strategies and policies that have an impact on the Middle East.