This paper aims to learn from community-led mediation processes to help international and local actors promote peace in more effective and legitimate ways. It provides a frank overview of the ...

The Center for Security Studies heads into the Fall Semester 2025. Here you can find an overview of courses in various programs that are taught by CSS employees.

The intensifying strategic competition between the US and China has made artificial intelligence (AI) one of the central pillars of national security policy. Major powers are investing heavily in ...

Recent revelations of Chinese government-backed hacking show a recurring pattern: prominent hackers behind groups such as APT17, APT27, APT41, Flax Typhoon, and Red Hotel—monikers given by ...

China has become a leading nation in scienceand technology (S&T). Through large investments, centralized long-term planning, and its open-door policy, China has improved its innovation system as well ...

Der CSS Cyberdefense Report von Eugenio Benincasa untersucht, wie eine Kerngruppe von Red Hackern aus den 1990er- und 2000er-Jahren den Grundstein für Chinas moderne Cyberfähigkeiten legte und ...

The Indo-Pacific is rapidly becoming the world’s new geopolitical and geo-economic epicentre. Yet the evolving role of European actors and the European Union remains notably understudied. «Europe’s ...

2024 was a year in which an already profound geopolitical shift became more marked – with serious implications for global security. We are seeing a trend toward power politics at the expense of ...

Space is increasingly contested and congested. There are over 10,000 active satellites in space. This is a seven-fold increase compared to a decade ago. This rapid growth and the fact that there is no ...

Few people know that Germany recently agreed to import 1.9 million Kenyan workers, or that it is currently mobilizing 500 000 Bundeswehr conscripts for military operations in Eastern Europe.

In four panels the Policy Workshop tackled three main questions facing European governments and semiconductor corporations: What are the main trends, developments, and strategies in the geopolitics of ...

What do shifting power dynamics, the rise of global revisionism, and low-boil conflicts mean for national security? What are the gaps between the U.S. perspective and a European one? These questions ...