Survival: Global Politics and Strategy
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Survival, the @IISS_org journal, is one of the world's leading forums for analysis & debate of international & strategic affairs. Submissions: [email protected]
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Read the August–September 2025 issue of the IISS’s bimonthly journal – Survival – covering strategic issues of the moment. Available here.
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Elon Musk’s stewardship of Twitter – which has made it erratic, brittle and diminished – should serve as a warning about what he is doing to the US government. Analysis by Joe Pesmen.
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Only in conventional wars between two non-nuclear-armed states are the conditions for the effective use of economic warfare likely to be met. Analysis by Mariya Grinberg.
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The contemporary strategic setting is pushing the US Navy towards an approach that integrates deterrence by denial and deterrence by punishment to prevent overt aggression. James J. Wirtz on sea denial and sea control in US maritime strategy.
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If China seeks to disrupt US satellite capabilities in a conflict in the Indo-Pacific, NATO will lose significant enabling capability that will not be easy to replace. Analysis by @ianjbowers and Henrik Stålhane Hiim.
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The new military leaders and much of the citizenry in the Sahel coup belt have framed coups as responses to French neo-colonialism, symbolised by large French military presences. Analysis from Naman Habtom and @JulianWaller.
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The diminishing role of accountable institutions in US governance weakens international confidence in the United States and threatens to accelerate the country’s loss of global influence. @heydeesmeet on DOGE and the future of US foreign aid.
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The emerging view of the United States is of a country sliding towards competitive authoritarianism along contemporary Hungarian lines. @sns_1239 appraises Trump’s first hundred days | FREE TO READ
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The emerging view is of a country sliding towards competitive authoritarianism along contemporary Hungarian lines.
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Behavioural arms control, which establishes norms and rules of engagement to reduce the risks of inadvertent escalation, is more feasible than structural arms control under nuclear asymmetry. Analysis by Inwook Kim and Seung Joon Paik.
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Given the revisionist intentions of both China and Russia, conflict avoidance is unlikely to be a winning strategy for the United States. Anna Péczeli on America’s options for managing nuclear escalation.
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Nuclear strategy is about providing a deterrent effect sufficient to avoid the most dire scenarios, which Europe can achieve without major changes to declaratory policy or force structures | @LawDavF on Europe’s existing nuclear deterrent. FREE TO READ.
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Nuclear strategy is all about providing a deterrent effect sufficient to avoid the most dire scenarios, and that can be achieved without significant changes to either declaratory policy or force...
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JUNE–JULY ISSUE OUT NOW! Read Survival 67.3
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The early moves of Donald Trump’s second administration have pulverised the Europeans’ understanding of the United States. Dana H. Allin and @CChivvis on the changed terms of transatlantic relations | FREE TO READ
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The first two months of Trump’s second presidency have radically changed the terms of the relationship by pulverising the Europeans’ understanding of the United States.
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APRIL–MAY ISSUE OUT NOW! Read Survival 67.2
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In her book, Digital Empires, Anu Bradford illuminates how conflicts between the EU and the US over technology could distract them from China’s competing and advancing technologies and regulatory concepts. Review by @pfraioli.
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States that excel in the development and implementation of digital-engineering techniques are likely to enjoy a significant strategic edge in the Fourth Industrial Revolution over those that do not. Analysis from Dennis Murphy and @lprubin73.
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It can take a serious shock to eliminate perceptual lags. For American liberals, Israel has now delivered one by way of the Gaza war. Steven Simon on American liberals’ perceptions of Isreal.
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European governments must invest jointly in conventional deterrence and defence assets while building cooperative clusters around the French and British nuclear hubs. Find out more.
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Financial developments appear to be increasing American leverage over Europe even as the United States’ commitment to Europe wanes. Analysis by @EAAHellendoorn.
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As the only nuclear power in the European Union, France faces increasing support to expand its nuclear role in European security. Listen to @alexbollfrass discuss France’s nuclear trajectory with @HFayet, Emmanuelle Maitre, @liviuhorovitz. 🎧 Tune in now:
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