Survival: April-May 2025

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

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

In this issue:

• Sophia Besch and Tara Varma analyse the influence of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement on the revisionist agenda in Europe
• Shashank Joshi evaluates the challenge of maintaining meaningful human control in decision-making as the role of artificial intelligence on the battlefield advances
• Matthew F. Cancian explores how the principle of ‘denial over weeks’ could save the United States from a prolonged and unwinnable war over Taiwan
• Dana H. Allin and Christopher S. Chivvis assess the impact of the early moves of Donald Trump’s second administration on the relationship between Europe and the United States
• And nine 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

Contributor: The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (Edited by)

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