Survival: April - May 2024

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

In this issue:
- Benjamin Rhode examines the threat of Europe’s security guarantor of the past 80 years stepping back

- Ellen Laipson and Douglas Ollivant explore how the Gaza war has threatened Iraq’s balancing act between the US and Iran

- Nigel Gould-Davies cautions that, despite the West’s economic superiority over Russia, it is starting to look like the balance of resolve in the Ukraine war favours Russia

- Dana H. Allin and Jonathan Stevenson examine the mystery of why new aid for Ukraine is blocked in the US Congress in spite of bipartisan support

- And eight more thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column.

Editor: Dr Dana Allin
Managing Editor: Jonathan Stevenson
Associate Editor: Carolyn West
Editorial Assistant: Conor Hodges

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a registered charity with-- offices in Washington, London, Manama, Singapore and Berlin, is the world’s leading authority on political-military conflict. It is the primary independent source of accurate, objective information on international strategic issues. Publications include The Military Balance, an annual reference work on each nation’s defence capabilities; Strategic Survey, an annual review of world affairs; Survival, a bimonthly journal on international affairs; Strategic Comments, an online analysis of topical issues in international affairs; and the Adelphi series of books on issues of international security.