Survival: Global Politics and Strategy

Defending Europe

France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier (Photo: French Defence Ministry)

Britain and France as Nuclear Partners

Matthew Harries

The 2010 treaty is modest in scope, but there are intriguing possibilities for future collaboration, and perhaps for trilateral cooperation involving the United States. (FREE ARTICLE)

The Struggle for Value in European Defence

Bastian Giegerich and Alexander Nicoll

Does Missile Defence in Europe Threaten Russia?

Dean A. Wilkening

Also in Survival

Mario Monti and Angela Merkel (Photo: Bundesregierung / Steffen Kugler)

Italy’s Sovereign Debt Crisis

Erik Jones

The Italian story shows what happens when changes in market confidence outpace politics. Unless market participants will benefit more by staying in the game, what happened to Italy will happen elsewhere.

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Jose Manuel Barroso in Strasbourg (Photo: European Union)

Centrifugal Europe

Charles A. Kupchan

Unless the growing gap between governance and governed is resolved, the EU may be headed for fragmentation, if not outright dissolution. (FREE ARTICLE)

An Iraqi police officer stands outside a police station in Wynot, near Tikrit, Iraq (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Luke P. Thelen/Released)

Leaving Iraq

Andrew Parasiliti

The end of the war brings no sense of triumphalism. In addition to its human costs, the war has been a blow to US prestige, revealing the limits rather than the extent of US power.

Containing Iran’s Missile Threat

Michael Elleman

The breathing space offered by a regional flight-test ban could facilitate cooperation on missile defences and the building of greater trust and confidence between Moscow and Washington.

Measuring Progress in Modern Warfare

Ethan B. Kapstein

In a counter-insurgency, metrics should seek to capture the population’s beliefs about the future. Economic choices during periods of intense conflict are a reasonable proxy for such beliefs.

After Iraq: The Trigger Doctrine

David McKean

An unfounded rush to war is often precipitated by events. The president, Congress, the press and the public would benefit from a benchmark against which to measure the advisability of a military response.

Book Reviews

The Better Angels of Our Nature (Jacket image: Allen Lane)

Review Essays

The Long Peace Getting Longer

Adam Roberts

Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of our Nature is the most interesting work available on the subject of violence in history.

China’s Rise: Contingency, Constraints and Concerns

Thomas Fingar

What Aaron Friedberg’s A Contest for Supremacy does best is underscore the uncertainties that must be factored into any analysis of the shape, pace and implications of China’s rise.

Oil and Water

David Hendrickson

The US has been uniquely careless in its approach to energy policy. Three books on the Deepwater Horizon disaster illustrate the Devil’s bargains being made to slake the world’s thirst for energy.