The Center's publications make a significant research contribution in the field of security and strategic studies, while at the same time fostering public debate on Swiss and international security ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drought poses an increasing threat to Switzerland. What does this mean for civil protection organizations? What strategies can they adopt to prepare for and respond to it? The study 'Civil Protection ...

This report by Anna Hess Sargsyan and Anna Möller-Loswick is structured around six key insights from the three workshops, with illustrative case examples from Syria, Kenya, Kosovo, Mozambique, and the ...

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 ...

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

This chapter addresses the types of cyber operations that were conducted against the space sector as well as the types of space entities that have been targeted by threat actors in the context of the ...

In four panels the Policy Workshop tackled three main questions facing European governments and semiconductor corporations: What are the main trends, developments, and strategies in the geopolitics of ...