The conference will also address the strategic GCC-US partnership and the chances available for GCC countries to build a new security system. It will also look at the GCC-Turkish relations, the Iranian nuclear issue and its impacts on the region, cyberspace era and measures to face its challenges, the strategic developments in the Middle East, the impact of the 2011 Arab upheavals on regional order, cross-border extremist religious organisations and the geopolitical threats they pose and scenarios to resolve the Syrian crisis will also come under the spotlight at the conference.