Previous Survival articles providing depth and insight into today's headlines
Iran's Nuclear Programme
by Jean-Louis Gergorin
The P5+1 must find a way to persuade Iran to accept limits on its enrichment capabilities, and the Western powers must find a way to enforce those limits. (June–July 2009)
by Shahram Chubin
Iran’s power and influence is often exaggerated by those who see Iran as a regional superpower or hegemon without recognising its weaknesses and contradictions. (February–March 2009)
by Patrick Clawson and Michael Eisenstadt
In responding to Iran’s nuclear programme, the United States and its allies should strengthen the credibility of the military option to bolster the prospects for successful diplomacy. (October–November 2008)
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)
by Dassa Kaye, Dalia Dassa and Frederic M. Wehrey
Many states do not perceive a nuclear-armed Iran itself to be the principal threat, but are more concerned with spillover effects, such as a regional arms race. (Summer 2007)
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. (June-July 2009)
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)
Pandemic Flu
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)
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)
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