1st Edition

Survival: October–November 2024

Edited By Emile Hokayem Copyright 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:

    • Riccardo Alcaro and Nathalie Tocci discuss Giorgia Meloni’s malleable political views

    • Nigel Gould-Davies examines the recent prisoner swap between Russia and the West and its implications for future dealings with Russia

    • Héloïse Fayet, Andrew Futter and Ulrich Kühn analyse French, British and German approaches to developing an effective European nuclear deterrent

    • Thomas Juneau outlines the options available to Israel, Saudia Arabia and the United States in responding to the persistent Houthi threat

    • 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

    Survival 66.5 (October–November 2024), pp. 1–240

    The Janus Face of Italy’s Far Right, by Riccardo Alcaro and Nathalie Tocci

    Europe’s Leadership Void, by Matthias Matthijs

    America’s Election and Europe’s Choices, by Sarah Raine

    Putin’s Ideological State, by Vladimir Ryzhkov

    The Significance of the Prisoner Exchange with Russia, by Nigel Gould-Davies

    Noteworthy

    Forum: Towards a European Nuclear Deterrent, by Héloïse Fayet, Andrew Futter and Ulrich Kühn

    The War in Ukraine and Russia’s Quest to Reshape the World Order, by Jeffrey Mankoff

    Ukraine in NATO: Beyond the ‘Irreversible Path’, by John R. Deni and Elisabeth Nielsen

    Britain in the Pacific: Staying the Course?, by Nick Childs and Callum Fraser

    Mirage of Coercion: The Real Sources of China’s Influence in the Middle East and North Africa, by Dale Aluf

    Unpalatable Options: Confronting the Houthis, by Thomas Juneau

    Is a Visionary Defence Bureaucracy Possible?, by Paul Fraioli

    Book Reviews

    South Asia, by Teresita C. Schaffer

    Middle East, by Ray Takeyh

    Economy, by Erik Jones

    Ersatz Intelligence, by Michael Nevitt

    Biography

    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.

    ‘In a world of complex security challenges the need for serious, thoughtful analysis is greater than ever. Survival’s combination of elegant writing and rigorous scholarship from the world’s top experts makes it essential reading for both practitioners and academics.’

    Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, War Studies King's College London