In the June–July 2015 issue of Survival, James Fromson and Steven Simon describe ISIS as an army, sect, cult and state, and prescribe a strategy of aggressive containment; Ariel I. Ahram discusses ISIS’s use of sexual violence; Erik Jones compares scenarios of Greek exit from the euro and British exit from the EU; Aaron L. Friedberg outlines the American debate over strategy towards China; Michael Krepon argues that nuclear weapons are not stabilising; Pierre Hassner reviews four recent books on the crisis of human rights; Paul Cornish explores the dilemmas of state sovereignty in cyberspace; Alexander Lanoszka interrogates the concept of ‘free riding’; and Mark Fitzpatrick assesses the Lausanne accord on Iran’s nuclear programme.
