Survival: June - July 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 Hannah Aries, Bastian Giegerich and Tim Lawrenson assess that Europe’s defence industry will struggle to meet increased production needs In 2007, the late Ronald Steel judged that while the Iraq War had weakened the United States, it would not profoundly affect US foreign policy (from the archive) Dana H. Allin reflects on Ronald Steel’s legacy and prospects for the ‘extended American Century’ Liana Fix argues that the West should formulate security guarantees for Ukraine in parallel with its counter-offensive Daniel Sobelman assesses that the Yemen-based Houthi rebel movement is emulating Hizbullah 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 65.3 (June–July 2023), pp. 1–198 The Guns of Europe: Defence-industrial Challenges in a Time of War, by Hannah Aries, Bastian Giegerich and Tim Lawrenson The Black Sea in the Shadow of War, by Nick Childs Paper Tiger: The Enemy Image of America, by Barak Mendelsohn and Dominic Tierney The Future Is Now: Security Guarantees for Ukraine, by Liana Fix The Zeitenwende at Work: Germany’s National Security Strategy, by Karl-Heinz Kamp The Philippines’ Surprising Veer West, by James Crabtree and Evan A. Laksmana Noteworthy Ukraine’s IT Army, by Stefan Soesanto Telegram, ‘Milbloggers’ and the Russian State, by Sam Farbman Houthis in the Footsteps of Hizbullah, by Daniel Sobelman The Choice for Sanctions, by Erik Jones Book Reviews Politics and International Relations, by Chester A. Crocker Culture and Society, by Jeffrey Mazo Europe, by Erik Jones Latin America, by Russell Crandall and Britta Crandall An Iraq Syndrome?, by Ronald Steel Ronald Steel and the American Century, by Dana H. Allin

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