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Promotional graphic for the August–September 2026 issue of Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, titled “Enduring Iran.” The graphic shows print copies of the journal alongside a tablet displaying the article “Nuclear Command Without Control: AI and the Problem of Escalation,” with IISS and Routledge logos.

Sept. 15, 2026

The Politics of Endurance: Iran and the Limits of Coercion

For decades, coercive campaigns against Iran have rested on the assumption that sufficient economic pain would eventually force political surrender. That assumption has been repeatedly confounded.