Since the “Zeitenwende”, the shape of Switzerland’s neutrality has once again become a controversial subject domestically.

The ETH Workshop on Military Doctrines after 2014 discussed different factors that currently influence debates about military doctrines: The end of the war in Afghanistan; the conflict between the ...

The Center for Security Studies (CSS) held an “Evening Talk” on “The Return of Conventional War?” on 11 September 2013. Prof. Joachim Krause, Institute for Security Policy Kiel, and in-house expert ...

UN peace missions, which include peacekeeping operations, special political missions, and good offices engagements, are the main instrument of the UN to promote peace around the world. They are ...

On 11 December, the CSS held an Evening Talk on the topic of “The Swiss OSCE Chairmanship 2014.” The speakers were Ambassador Heidi Grau, head of the OSCE Task Force at the Swiss Foreign Ministry, and ...

This report answers this question by outlining a conflict transformation approach developed by Cordoba Peace Institute – Geneva (CPI), and in Samarra, Talafar, and Iraq as a whole, between 2018 and ...

This book tries to answer the following seven questions: ...

In France, Germany, and the UK, the authority responsible for the cyber defense of satellites depends on the nature of the targeted system. Cyber commands largely oversee the cyber defense of space ...

Historically, discussions on cyber conflict have primarily centered on the involvement of state-sponsored or affiliated groups. Yet, the growing prominence of criminal actors – specifically, ...

Conflicts are growing ever more complex, with increased internationalization, splintering of conflict parties, new technologies, and multilateral institutions such as the UN in crisis. While worldwide ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine has undoubtedly become the single most important conflict for understanding how drone warfare may take shape in the future. This research report identifies nine key takeaways ...

In April 2024, ahead of the Summit on Peace in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky external pagestated that Türkiye would be among the countries that “can perform a mediation mission but ...