International crises are a stress test for governments, offering opportunities to rally citizens but also risking dissatisfaction with tough policy choices. While trust in government has fluctuated in ...

The EU’s embrace of its role as a “geopolitical actor,” and NATO’s renewed focus on deterrence and defense have had a significant impact on their respective approaches to partnerships. Both emphasize ...

The CSS publishes various reports on security policy issues.

The Global Security Team works on key issues related to international and global security policy. At its core, the focus is on US and Russian foreign and security policy, the changing geopolitics and ...

The Defense Policy and Armaments Acquisition team conducts research on current dynamics at the interface of military forces development and technological innovation and analyses their possible ...

The Center for Security Studies (CSS) organizes various academic conferences and a number of workshops to promote cooperation and the exchange of ideas between academics and security policy-makers ...

The CSS is a Swiss center of excellence for security-policy issues with an international outreach. We promote the understanding of challenges and approaches to security policy. We seek to contribute ...

In the last decade, cyber incidents have become more expensive, more disruptive, and in many cases more political. Within this theme, we focus on two closely interlinked issues: First, the use and ...

The Strategic Trends series offers a concise analysis of major developments in world affairs, with a primary focus on international security. The annual volumes provide succinct interpretations of key ...

The Russian Analytical Digest (RAD) analyzes recent events, trends and developments within contemporary Russian politics, economics and business, foreign policy, security and society. Each issue ...

The Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD) is a bimonthly internet publication jointly produced by the external page Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC-Georgia), the external page Research Centre for ...

Der «Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)» analysiert Ereignisse, Trends und Entwicklungen im Hinblick auf die politische, wirtschaftliche, sicherheitspolitische und gesellschaftliche Situation in Russland ...