216 Pages
by Routledge

216 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: Lawrence Freedman assesses the sufficiency of the British and French nuclear deterrents for Europe in light of Russian revanchism and the United States’ strategic distancing from Europe Bence Nemeth argues that, as... Read more

Survival 67.3 (June–July 2025), pp. 1–216

Europe’s Nuclear Deterrent: The Here and Now, by Lawrence Freedman

Managing Escalation: America’s Two-peer Nuclear Problem, by Anna Péczeli

Arms Control Under Nuclear Asymmetry, by Inwook Kim and Seung Joon Paik

Trump’s Century of Days, by Steven Simon

DOGE and the Future of US Foreign Aid, by Heidi Jane M. Smith

The Sahel Coup Belt and the Return of Praetorianism, by Naman Habtom and Julian G. Waller

Noteworthy: Trump’s Deportations and the Courts

Knock-on Risks to NATO’s Space-based War-fighting Capabilities, by Ian Bowers and Henrik Stålhane Hiim

Europe Needs Less Defence Cooperation, by Bence Nemeth

Bimodal Deterrence: Sea Denial and Sea Control in US Maritime Strategy, by James J. Wirtz

The Future of Economic Warfare, by Mariya Grinberg

Sanctions: Failure by Other Means, by Chris Clague

Book Reviews

Deterrence, Arms Control and Nuclear History, by Matthew Jones

Latin America, by Ryan C. Berg

Europe, by Erik Jones

Politics and International Relations, by Chester A. Crocker

The Managerial Revolution Rebooted, by Joe Pesmen

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