In the June–July 2017 issue, Hal Brands and Peter Feaver explore whether different US policy choices between 2003 and 2014 could have stopped the rise of ISIS; James Dobbins and Seth G. Jones ask what strategic choices can ensure that ISIS’s imminent loss of its remaining territorial strongholds will mean lasting defeat; Fabrice Pothier highlights the necessity of an area-access strategy for NATO; Tim Huxley and Benjamin Schreer analyse Donald Trump’s mixed strategic messages for Asia; Lawrence Freedman reflects on the role of historians in holding policymakers to account; Jonathan Stevenson anticipates the impact of Brexit on peace in Northern Ireland; Jens Ringsmose and Sten Rynning set out the challenges for NATO posed by Russia; Martin Zapfe questions the effectiveness of NATO’s strategy for deterring threats to Baltic members; Peter Rudolf highlights the widening gap between traditional principles of peacekeeping and contemporary operations; Erik Jones, Russell Crandall and Jeffrey Mazo review new books; and Asger Pedersen examines Denmark’s treatment of local interpreters who assisted its troops in Afghanistan.
In the June–July 2017 issue, Hal Brands and Peter Feaver explore whether different US policy choices between 2003 and 2014 could have stopped the rise of ISIS; James Dobbins and Seth G. Jones ask what strategic choices can ensure that ISIS’s imminent loss of its remaining territorial strongholds will mean lasting defeat; Fabrice Pothier highlights the necessity of an area-access strategy for NATO; Tim Huxley and Benjamin Schreer analyse Donald Trump’s mixed strategic messages for Asia; Lawrence Freedman reflects on the role of historians in holding policymakers to account; Jonathan Stevenson anticipates the impact of Brexit on peace in Northern Ireland; Jens Ringsmose and Sten Rynning set out the challenges for NATO posed by Russia; Martin Zapfe questions the effectiveness of NATO’s strategy for deterring threats to Baltic members; Peter Rudolf highlights the widening gap between traditional principles of peacekeeping and contemporary operations; Erik Jones, Russell Crandall and Jeffrey Mazo review new books; and Asger Pedersen examines Denmark’s treatment of local interpreters who assisted its troops in Afghanistan.