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Commentary

What the Torture Memos Tell Us

by Karen J. Greenberg

Sovereignty at Sea

by James Kraska

Iran: Breaking the Deadlock

by Jean-Louis Gergorin

 

Articles

 

The Unravelling of Pakistan

by John R. Schmidt

Nothing in the nature of Pakistan’s political culture, or in the performance of its political class since the founding of the state, provides grounds for optimism.

 

Europe, Guantanamo and the ‘War on Terror’: An Exchange

by Nigel Inkster, Robert Whalley, Matthew C. Waxman and Sibylle Scheipers

Scholars and former policymakers discuss the challenges of closing Guantanamo.

 

A New Era of Food Insecurity?

by Alan Dupont and Mark Thirlwell

Structural shifts in demand and supply may presage an extended period of higher food prices, sporadic shortages and heightened anxieties about food security.

 

The Limits of Chinese–Russian Partnership

by Rajan Menon

Neither Moscow nor Beijing wants the partnership to damage relationships with the United States, and it is neither an exclusive nor a binding alliance.

 

Occupying Iraq: A Short History of the CPA

by James Dobbins

Any planning process must provide operators the necessary resources and flexibility to follow it through. Planning for post-war Iraq signally failed this test.

 

The Case for No First Use

by Scott D. Sagan

A US nuclear no-first-use doctrine would have fewer costs and bring greater benefits than commonly recognised.

 

Plus

Review Essay: On War and Peace

by Bruno Tertrais

Review Essay: More With Less

by Ian Bremmer

Review Essay: Future Imperfect

by Sara Robinson

Closing Argument: Elusive Power, Essential Leadership

by Erik Jones

Book Reviews

  • Economics, Resources and the Environment  Bill Emmott

  • Latin America  Russell Crandall

  • Europe  Erik Jones

 

Brief Notices

Letters to the Editor

Noteworthy

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In the News / On the Web

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Previous Survival articles providing depth and insight into today's headlines 

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons

Living with Ambiguity: Nuclear Deals with Iran and North Korea

by Robert S. Litwak

A pragmatic pivot by the administration to a new strategy of containment would decouple the nuclear issue from the question of regime change. (February–March 2008)

 

A Nuclear-armed North Korea: Accepting the ‘Unacceptable’?

by Mitchell B. Reiss

The world’s strongest powers have proved incapable of preventing an impoverished, dysfunctional country from endangering the peace stability of the region. (Winter 2006–07)

 

Iran and North Korea: The Proliferation Nexus

by Mark Fitzpatrick

Barring a wholly unlikely breakthrough, North Korea and Iran will remain the most dangerous and most intractable proliferation problems facing the world for the foreseeable future. (Spring 2006)

 

The Korean Nuclear Crisis

by Gary Samore

As the world focuses on Iraq, North Korea is seeking to expand its nuclear arsenal as quickly as possible. (Spring 2003)

 

 

Pandemic Flu

Is Pandemic Flu a Security Threat?

by Christian Enemark

Framing influenza as a threat to national security could help improve and mobilise public-health resources, but could also lead to emergency responses which are ineffective, counterproductive or unjust. (February-March 2009)

 

 

Pakistan

Pakistan: Transition to What?

by Teresita C. Schaffer

Both for Pakistan's future and for Western policy interests, this is the time to put legitimacy of the government first. (February-March 2008)

 

Lectures and Interviews from Survival authors

On 27 May Survival author Rodric Braithwaite joined Oksana Antonenko, IISS Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, and Artemy Kalinovksy, Junior Fellow at LSE IDEAS, to discuss the ‘Soviet Experience and its Implications for NATO Strategy’. Video of the discussion can be viewed here (42:50). In his article for the February-March issue of Survival, ‘Afghan Diary’, Ambassador Braithwaite described a research trip to Afghanistan during which he concluded that the ‘Russian effort in Afghanistan was frustrated above all by their inability to control the frontier with Pakistan: a task which may well turn out to be even harder for the coalition’.

 

With NATO holding its 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg/Kehl on 3-4 April, Survival Editor Dana Allin interviews Mats Berdal, professor at Kings College London and an IISS Consulting Senior Fellow, on his article 'NATO at 60' in the April-May issue. (Streaming video; 13:02)

 

Also in the April-May issue is Rebooting NATO–Russia Relations by Oksana Antonenko, IISS Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, and Bastian Giegerich, IISS Research Fellow for European Security. Watch a discussion meeting from 26 March where they discuss their article. (Streaming video; 42:15)  

 

Most Cited Recent Articles

Counter-insurgency Redux

by David Kilcullen (Winter 2006–07)

 

Turkey and Russia: Axis of the Excluded?

by Fiona Hill and Owen Taspinar (Spring 2006)

 

Assessing Iran’s Nuclear Programme

by Mark Fitzpatrick (Autumn 2006)

 

Inducing a Failed State in Palestine

by Yezid Sayigh (Autumn 2007)

 

Pakistan’s Dangerous Game

by Seth G. Jones (Spring 2007)

 

A Long War?

by Michael Howard (Winter 2006–07)

 

Chaos in the North Caucasus & Russia’s Future

by John B. Dunlop and Rajan Menon (Summer 2006)

 

Averting failure in Afghanistan

by Seth G. Jones (Spring 2006)

 

Top Downloaded Articles

On War: Lessons to be Learned

by H.R. McMaster (February-March 2008)

 

China's Military Space Strategy

by Ashley J. Tellis (Autumn 2007)

 

The Two Faces of Saudi Arabia

by Mai Yamani (February-March 2008) 

 

Forum: Debating Bush's Wars

by Peter Wehner, Kishore Mahbubani and Philip H. Gordon (February-March 2008)

 

China's Military Space Strategy: An Exchange

by Michael Krepon, Eric Hagt, Shen Dingli, Bao Shixiu, Michael Pillsbury and Ashley Tellis (February-March 2008)

 

Recovering American Leadership

by Joseph S. Nye (February-March 2008)

 

A Long War?

by Michael Howard (Winter 2006-07)

 

Strategy and the LImitation of War

by Hew Strachan (February-March 2008)

 

China in Africa

by Chris Alden (Autumn 2005)

 

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