Survival: August-September 2026

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. In this issue:· Trond Arne Undheim warns that the use of artificial intelligence in nuclear command and control compresses the time available for human deliberation and contextual reasoning, producing a new kind of strategic blindness – free to read· Mahsa Rouhi assesses that the adaptive political mechanisms that Iran has devised to resist coercion have extended the survival of its regime· Christopher J. Fettweis argues that the United States’ view of Iran as an implacable enemy drives misperceptions about Iranian intentions and magnifies the perception of the threat it poses – free to read· Dana H. Allin observes that MAGA conservatism and its definition of nationalism is at odds with post-war American conservatism, which came to accept aspects of the New Deal, the civil-rights movement and the Great Society – free to read· And eight other 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 AllinManaging Editor: Jonathan StevensonAssociate Editor: Carolyn WestEditorial Assistant: Anna Gallagher