Survival: April - May 2023

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. In this issue: Franz-Stefan Gady and Michael Kofman assess that Ukraine will not be able to avoid attrition in its military strategy against Russia Nigel Gould-Davies assesses that Vladimir Putin’s priority has shifted from demobilising the population from politics to mobilising it behind the war Bastian Giegerich and Ben Schreer judge that Germany still requires significant changes to its defence and foreign policies for Zeitenwende to be meaningful Lynn Kuok believes that framing great-power competition as an ideological struggle is counterproductive to the United States’ partnerships in the Asia-Pacific Adam Mount observes that a fixation on nuclear assurance is harming the military alliance between the United States and South Korea And seven 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: Charlie Zawadzki

Survival 65.2 (April–May 2023), pp. 1–228 Ukraine’s Strategy of Attrition, by Franz-Stefan Gady and Michael Kofman How the War Has Changed Russia, by Nigel Gould-Davies Enforcing Russia’s Debt to Ukraine: Constraints and Creativity, by Maria Shagina Zeitenwende One Year On, by Bastian Giegerich and Ben Schreer Asia’s Ukraine Problem, by Lynn Kuok Noteworthy About European Sovereignty, by Pierre Buhler The Energy Transition, Protectionism and Transatlantic Relations, by Nicholas Crawford Truman Redux? Biden’s National Security Strategy, by Aaron Ettinger The US and South Korea: The Trouble with Nuclear Assurance, by Adam Mount Assessing Proliferation Risks in the Middle East, by Aya Kamil, Zuha Noor and Daniel Serwer Reading Clausewitz: On War for 21st-century Practitioners, by James S. Powell Book Reviews Middle East, by Ray Takeyh United States, by David C. Unger Environment and Resources, by Jeffrey Mazo Historical Imagination and the Unspoken Assumptions of Our Age, by Benjamin Rhode

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