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 ...

The Indo-Pacific is rapidly becoming the world’s new geopolitical and geo-economic epicentre. Yet the evolving role of European actors and the European Union remains notably understudied. «Europe’s ...

In a time of multiple, overlapping crises and tectonic geopolitical and economic shifts, Swiss security policy also faces major challenges. The CSS focuses on analyzing and assessing the security ...

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No. 8: The War of Maps? Spatial (Mis)Representations Of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Digital Context (2024) Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD) Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Angesichts mehrerer verheerender Kriege, die derzeit sowohl die Dringlichkeit als auch die Fragilität von Waffenstillstandsvereinbarungen verdeutlichen, ist der ...

For both China and Russia, the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan presents opportunities as well as risks. In recognition of the Taliban’s continued strength, both countries cultivated ties with the ...

Historically, discussions on cyber conflict have primarily centered on the involvement of state-sponsored or affiliated groups. Yet, the growing prominence of criminal actors – specifically, ...