Survival: December 2024-January 2025

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

In this issue:

• Charlie Laderman discusses the historical precedent for Donald Trump’s threat to shrink the US commitment to NATO: the ’Great Debate’ of the 1950s

• Emile Hokayem examines Hizbullah’s future after Hassan Nasrallah’s killing and Israel’s incursion into Lebanon

• Dana H. Allin analyses what Trump’s return to the White House spells for the world

• Elene Panchulidze and Richard Youngs discuss Europe’s growing emphasis on supporting democracies as a geopolitical imperative under the shadow of the Russia-Ukraine war

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

To read free articles from the journal, please visit its homepage at https: //www.tandfonline.com/journals/tsur20.

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.