In the current debate surrounding defense capability, both energy security and climate change play a secondary role. In his new CSS analysis, Leonard Schliesser explains why increasing the energy ...

In her analysis, Gorana Grgić takes stock of the NATO Summit in The Hague. She highlights how the 5 per cent of GDP agreement on defense spending reflects a conceptual shift in burden-sharing and ...

The annual Bulletin on Swiss Security Policy (Bulletin zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik) deals with current issues in Swiss foreign and security policy and presents selected CSS projects. It ...

The IT Army of Ukraine was stood up in an ad-hoc manner without a clearly structured and proven plan. Born out of necessity, the IT Army subsequently evolved into a hybrid construct that is neither ...

In South-East Asia, the emerging great power China is challenging the supremacy of the US, which is clinging to its leading role in the region, argue Linda Maduz and Simon Stocker in this new CSS ...

Since the “Zeitenwende”, the shape of Switzerland’s neutrality has once again become a controversial subject domestically. The Federal Council has so far seen no need to change course, but will have ...

This edited volume compiled by CSS director Andreas Wenger and Alex S. Wilner focuses on contemporary denial, bridging the theoretical gap that persists between classical deterrence theory and ...

The aim of this book is to review the use of technology in monitoring and verifying ceasefires, drawing on the Ukraine experience between 2014 and 24 February 2022. It explores the question of how ...

The supply chain for rare earths needed for green technologies is dominated by China. To mitigate supply risks, European countries must invest in domestic mining, processing, and recycling capacities ...

NATO has designated cyberspace as a domain of warfare and recognized that an adversarial cyber campaign could trigger the Alliance’s collective defense mechanism under Article 5. Given the ...

The exploitation of space today is increasingly driven by the innovations of private actors. Confronted with Russia’s military aggression, Ukraine showed how nations with little or no space ...

While different aspects of identity are increasingly understood to shape diverse experiences of, and agency within conflict, religion and gender are still often treated as separate categories, argues ...