Simon Mason, Sebastian Kratzer and Edward Jackson argue that collaborating over environmental issues can be an entry point for security and peace talks. A global increase in environmental degradation ...

The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich is a center of competence for Swiss and international security policy. It offers security policy expertise in research, teaching, and consulting ...

Disruptive events like storms, floods, earthquakes, pandemics, and terrorist attacks threaten the functioning of society and the well-being of individuals. Overarching trends like climate change and ...

The “ETH/PRIO Civil Conflict CeaseFire” (CF) dataset is the first comprehensive global dataset covering the full range of ceasefire arrangements in civil conflicts between 1989 and 2020. In total, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reports and information disclosures by threat intelligence providers, government agencies, think tanks, and online hacktivists have exposed China’s elaborate multifaceted “hack-for-hire” ecosystem ...

Space systems are an integral part of modern war fighting. Militaries use them to conduct everything from reconnaissance to communications and data transfers, mission planning, and maintain ...

At the NATO Summit in Wales nearly a decade ago, NATO recognized that cyber defense is an inseparable part of collective defense. Therefore, a cyberattack against one or more member states can trigger ...

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

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 ...

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 ...