Survival June-July 2021: Ending Endless Wars?

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. In this issue: Anatol Lieven argues that the Taliban will remain the most powerful military and political force among the Pashtuns of Afghanistan Lanxin Xiang contends that, following what he describes as Donald Trump’s racist China policy, the Biden administration must avoid casting China as an alien threat Dani Filc and Sharon Pardo assess that right-wing populists in Israel and Europe have become ideological allies, harnessing ethnic nationalism against global Islam Alex J. Bellamy and Charles T. Hunt analyse the intricacies of the use of force to protect civilians in UN peacekeeping missions 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 Assistant Editor: Jessica Watson

Survival 63.3 (June–July 2021), pp. 1–222 An Afghan Tragedy: The Pashtuns, the Taliban and the State, by Anatol Lieven Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal: A Verdict on the Limits of American Power, by Laurel Miller US–China Relations in the Shadow of Spengler, by Lanxin Xiang Noteworthy The Fleet in Being: An Alternative US Strategy, by Kenneth Weisbrode Could Land Swaps Break the Kosovo–Serbia Impasse?, by Fatma Asli Kelkitli Israel’s Right-wing Populists: The European Connection, by Dani Filc and Sharon Pardo Russia’s Deceptive Nuclear Policy, by Dave Johnson Using Force to Protect Civilians in UN Peacekeeping, by Alex J. Bellamy and Charles T. Hunt The Trouble with Regime Change, by Lawrence Freedman Britain in a Contested World, by Mitchell B. Reiss Book Reviews Europe, by Erik Jones Culture and Society, by Jeffrey Mazo Latin America, by Russell Crandall and Britta Crandall The Life and Times of Michael Elleman, 1958–2021, by Mark Fitzpatrick Correction

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