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