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 ...

Cyber, space, and artificial intelligence (AI) are pivotal research fields in contemporary security studies and on the modern battlefield. Cyber has taken on heightened significance as offensive cyber ...

Sean Cordey is Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. His research spans digital humanitarianism, cyber policy and law, influence operations, digital warfare, and AI ...

The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine has intensified efforts in Europe to become more independent of Russian fossil fuels. This has given political urgency to ambitions for the development of more ...

China, the US, and India are competing for political, economic, and military influence in the Indian Ocean. In the future, the strategic order in this institutionally underdeveloped region will become ...

The UN’s counterterrorism framework and its accompanying institutional architecture have grown rapidly since the attacks on 11 September 2001. While UN counterterrorism has made important ...

Read the Annual Report here The Corona pandemic kept the world on edge in 2020 and beyond. For the CSS, Corona had a variety of consequences. The entire workday was converted to home office; teaching ...

Mediation is effective, under certain conditions. Yet the increase in geopolitical polarization and armed conflict raises the question of how mediation can be sustained and improved. Mediation support ...

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has created global shockwaves. Africa has been affected along a variety of axes, such as the elevated intensity of great-power competition, attempts to influence ...

Academics have generally accepted nuclear deterrence as an eternal fact of life, but Russian President Putin's nuclear threats during the war in Ukraine have illuminated the necessity of new research ...

Through export controls and industrial policy packages, the global semiconductor industry has become an arena of technological competition in recent years. As states seek to “de-risk” critical supply ...

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 ...