1st Edition
Survival February–March 2021: A House Divided
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.
In this issue:
- Steven Simon argues that despite the violent storming of the US Capitol, Republicans are inclined to commit to minority rule
- In a special forum, IISS researchers and three other experts consider whether NATO’s European members can defend themselves without US support
- Hanns W. Maull contends that the coronavirus pandemic has revealed deficiencies of global governance, and analyses their implications for the future of international order
- Christopher W. Hughes, Alessio Patalano and Robert Ward examine Japan’s grand strategy and Abe Shinzo’s legacy
And seven more thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column.
Editor: Dr Dana Allin
Managing Editor: Jonathan Stevenson
Associate Editor: Carolyn West
Assistant Editor: Jessica Watson
Survival 63.1 (February–March 2021), pp. 1–232
Trump’s Insurrection and America’s Year of Living Dangerously, by Steven Simon
Forum: Can Europe Defend Itself?
Editor’s Note
Europe’s Defence Requires Offence, by Douglas Barrie, Ben Barry, Henry Boyd, Nick Childs and Bastian Giegerich
Europe Can Afford the Cost of Autonomy, by François Heisbourg
Europe Cannot Defend Itself: The Challenge of Pooling Military Power, by Stephen G. Brooks and Hugo Meijer
In Reply: To Repeat, Europe Can Defend Itself, by Barry R. Posen
Noteworthy
Community and COVID-19: Japan, Sweden and Uruguay, by Amitai Etzioni
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Future of International Order, by Hanns W. Maull
War and Peace: Reaffirming the Distinction, by Chiara Libiseller and Lukas Milevski
Towards a Quantum Internet: Post-pandemic Cyber Security in a Post-digital World, by David C. Gompert and Martin Libicki
Japan’s Grand Strategy: The Abe Era and Its Aftermath, by Christopher W. Hughes, Alessio Patalano and Robert Ward
Dilemmas of Aiding Ukraine, by Henrik Larsen
Coffee and Communism, by Russell Crandall
Book Reviews
War, Conflict and the Military, by Rosa Brooks
Russia and Eurasia, by Angela Stent
Asia-Pacific, by Lanxin Xiang
Letter to the Editor
Brexit and the UN Security Council: Much Ado About Not Much?, by David Hannay
In Reply, by Norman Dombey
In Paranoid Style: The Last Days of Trump, by Benjamin Rhode
Correction
Biography
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a registered charity with offices in Washington, London, Manama and Singapore, 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; Strategic Survey, an annual review of world affairs; Survival, a bi-monthly journal of 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
