As great-power rivalries intensify and revisionist actors engage in increasingly probing behaviors, military security and defense are firmly back on the political agenda of Western states. Within this ...

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 ...

Bewaffnete Konflikte nehmen zu und werden intensiver. MediatorenInnen suchen laufend nach möglichen Ansatzpunkten für Gespräche mit oder zwischen Konfliktparteien, um sicherheits- und ...

Technological competition between the US and China is one of the defining features of contemporary geopolitics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the global semiconductor industry, a sector whose ...

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 ...

Bestandesaufnahme der Schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen globalen sicherheitspolitischen Entwicklungen. Es beleuchtet dieses Jahr unter anderem die Bedeutung eines ...

The Bulletin 2025 begins with an interview with Federal Councillor Martin Pfister, Head of the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS), in which he discusses the security ...

The establishment of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) was a long-standing Soviet idea that gained traction in the 1970s. From 1973 to 1975, East and West engaged in a ...

Islamist armed actors frame their struggle in terms derived from the Qur’an and the Prophetic traditions. In recent years, such groups have expanded and consolidated power in different intrastate ...

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 ...

With several devastating wars currently highlighting both the urgency and fragility of ceasefire arrangements, the demand for practical knowledge on when and how ceasefires can support peace has never ...

Der Indopazifik entwickelt sich rasch zum neuen geopolitischen und geoökonomischen Zentrum der Welt. Die sich wandelnde Rolle europäischer Akteure und der Europäischen Union ist jedoch nach wie vor ...