Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.
In this issue:
- Nick Childs assesses the ambitions and perils of the AUKUS partnership for Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States
- Kimberly Marten explores how the demise of its key figures will affect future operations of the Wagner Group and similar Russian paramilitaries
- Steven Feldstein investigates the uses and risks of generative-AI systems
- From the Survival archives, the late Pierre Hassner interpreted Russia’s August 2008 attack on Georgia as signalling the emergence of a new cold war with the West
- Dana H. Allin reflects on the European vision advanced by members of a rapidly disappearing generation of scholars who had lived through war and sought to preserve and extend peace
- And eight 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
Editorial Assistant: Conor Hodges
Table of Contents:
Survival 65.5 (October–November 2023), pp. 1–224
The AUKUS Anvil: Promise and Peril, by Nick Childs
A Fragile Convergence: The US–Japan–South Korea Camp David Summit, by Robert Ward
Calibrating Engagement with the Taliban, by James M. Cowan
Noteworthy
Whither Wagner? The Consequences of Prigozhin’s Mutiny and Demise, by Kimberly Marten
Detect and Engage: A New American Way of War, by David C. Gompert and Martin Libicki
Challenging Nuclear Bromides, by Dallas Boyd
The Meaning of ‘Strategic’ in US National-security Policy, by Jeffrey A. Larsen and James J. Wirtz
The Consequences of Generative AI for Democracy, Governance and War, by Steven Feldstein
Ana Montes: An (Almost) Perfect Spy, by Russell Crandall
Oppenheimer: The Man, the Movie and Nuclear Dread, by Jonathan Stevenson
Tough Lessons for UN Peacekeeping Operations, by Adrian Johnson
Book Reviews
Economy, by Erik Jones
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies, by Melissa K. Griffith
Middle East, by Ray Takeyh
South Asia, by Teresita C. Schaffer
One Cold War Among Many?, by Pierre Hassner
Not Fade Away: The Children of the 1930s, by Dana H. Allin
About the Author :
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; Strategic Survey, an annual review of world affairs; 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.
Review :
‘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
