Balancing Acts: Previewing the new issue of Survival
Posted Wednesday 1 December, 21:05 Bahrain time
In the December-January issue of our journal Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, James Farwell examines how al-Qaeda is beating the West in its exploitation of new media technologies and political communication techniques to promote its own narratives and drive its themes and messages in Jihadi Video in the ‘War of Ideas’.
Two articles explore the Iranian nuclear issue. A nuclear-armed Iran would have profound, lasting and far-reaching consequences for key Alliance roles and missions, says Bruno Tertrais in A Nuclear Iran and NATO.
The crisis linking Tehran, Tel Aviv and Washington is not the only problem facing the president but Iran’s defiance and Israel’s panic are the fuses for a war that could destroy all his other ambitions. In Obama’s Dilemma: Iran, Israel and the Rumours of War, Dana Allin and Steven Simon present a summary of their new book launched recently at the IISS in London
Turning to wider global issues: in Out of Balance: The Fragile World Economy, IISS experts Stephen Fidler and Alexander Nicoll contend that the pattern of globalisation that developed after the end of the Cold War has become unsustainable but it is not clear what new economic order will replace it. Meanwhile, in How Do Rising Powers Rise?, Andrew Hart and Bruce Jones argue that, in the short term, bargaining and balancing look set to outweigh building or blocking as emerging-power strategies.
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