Survival: August-September 2026

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-31857-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.

In this issue:

· Trond Arne Undheim warns that the use of artificial intelligence in nuclear command and control compresses the time available for human deliberation and contextual reasoning, producing a new kind of strategic blindness – free to read

· Mahsa Rouhi assesses that the adaptive political mechanisms that Iran has devised to resist coercion have extended the survival of its regime

· Christopher J. Fettweis argues that the United States’ view of Iran as an implacable enemy drives misperceptions about Iranian intentions and magnifies the perception of the threat it poses – free to read

· Dana H. Allin observes that MAGA conservatism and its definition of nationalism is at odds with post-war American conservatism, which came to accept aspects of the New Deal, the civil-rights movement and the Great Society – free to read

· And eight other thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column.

To read free articles from the journal, please visit its homepage at https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tsur20.

Editor: Dr Dana Allin

Managing Editor: Jonathan Stevenson

Associate Editor: Carolyn West

Editorial Assistant: Anna Gallagher

Zielgruppe

General

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Survival 68.4 (August–September 2026), pp. 1–200

Nuclear Command Without Control: AI and the Problem of Escalation Opacity, by Trond Arne Undheim

From Star Wars to Golden Dome: The Past, Present and Future of Missile Defence, by Frank A. Rose

Humans Versus Slaughterbots, by Rafal Rohozinski

Europe’s Strategic-imagination Deficit, by Riccardo Alcaro

Noteworthy: IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2026

The Politics of Endurance: Iran and the Limits of Coercion, by Mahsa Rouhi

The Iran Threat in Perspective, by Christopher J. Fettweis

Ensuring NATO Sea Control in the Baltic, by Andrew Livsey

South Korea Needs a Taiwan Principle, by Taehwa Hong

Resilience by Design: How Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Survive amid Great-power Rivalry, by Johan Engvall and Mikael Weissmann

Weaponised Connectivity: How Geo-economic Pressure Operates Below the Radar, by Ramkishen Rajan

The Friends of Zac Brettler, by Jonathan Stevenson

Book Reviews

Russia and Eurasia, by Marlene Laruelle

Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies, by Melissa K. Griffith

Deterrence, Arms Control and Nuclear History, by Matthew Jones

America’s Quarter-millennium, by Dana H. Allin

Über Autor(innen)

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.