1st Edition

Survival: February–March 2026

Edited By Benjamin Rhode Copyright 2026
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Survival , the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. In this issue: Rafal Rohozinski and Chris Spirito question whether artificial intelligence can evolve to offer sufficient protection against its own weaponisation Irene Mia argues that the United States’ operation in Venezuela... Read more

Survival 68.1 (February–March 2026), pp. 1–192

Weaponising AI: The New Cyber Attack Surface, by Rafal Rohozinski and Chris Spirito

Venezuela and the Geopolitics of Crime, by Irene Mia

A Post-Atlantic Europe, by Erik Jones

Better than Tariffs: Addressing China’s Geo-economic Challenge, by Geoffrey R. D. Underhill

2025: A Watershed Year for Global Trade, by Robert Ward

Noteworthy: The Venezuela Operation

Competitive Coexistence: US Engagement in a Multipolar World, by Thomas Graham

Broken Mirrors: How the European Union Reflected the United States – Until Trump, by Jan Hornát

Tacit Coercion and Its Dilemmas: Russia and the West, by Mikhail Troitskiy

Svalbard’s Deterrence Gap, by Katarzyna Zysk

Beijing’s Global Opposition Campaign, by Hannah Bailey and Todd Hall

Constrained Innovation: Drones and the Russo-Ukrainian War, by Mark Sauser

What Thucydides Could Really Teach Trump, by Thomas Waldman

From the Archives: Return to Greenland, by Dana H. Allin

Book Reviews

Russia and Eurasia, by Angela Stent

Africa, by Karen Smith

Pondering Gaza, by Steven Simon

Biography

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a registered charity with offices in Washington, London, Manama, Singapore and Berlin, is the world’s leading authority on political–military conflict. It is the primary independent source of accurate, objective information on international strategic issues. Publications include The Military Balance, an annual reference work on each nation’s defence capabilities; The Armed Conflict Survey, an annual review of the world’s active conflicts; Survival, a bimonthly journal on international affairs; Strategic Comments, an online analysis of topical issues in international affairs; and the Adelphi series of books on issues of international security.

‘In a world of complex security challenges the need for serious, thoughtful analysis is greater than ever. Survival’s combination of elegant writing and rigorous scholarship from the world’s top experts makes it essential reading for both practitioners and academics.’

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, War Studies King's College London