"How can it be," asked Kurt R. Spillmann in his farewell lecture more than twenty years ago in the main auditorium of ETH Zurich, "that we do not know how to stop people from causing each other ...

No. 312: The West and Russia's War of Aggression against Ukraine (2024) Russian Analytical Digest (RAD) Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), ...

D-ARCH Architecture D-BAUG Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering D-BIOL Biology D-BSSE Biosystems Science and Engineering D-CHAB Chemistry and Applied Biosciences D-EAPS Earth and Planetary ...

Karin Hess is a Researcher and provides management support to the Head of the Center for Security Studies (CSS) thinktank Dr. Daniel Möckli. Prior to joining CSS, Karin worked for the Swiss Federal ...

Following a variety of lockdown measures, governments around the world face high expectations for economic recovery and a return of social life – expectations that heavily rely on the availability of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neither Switzerland nor the EU are directly threatened by large-scale and prolonged power outages this winter; Ukraine is. The issues surrounding the security of power grids, energy supply, and energy ...

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

Policymakers and strategists increasingly refer to the “rules-based order” (RBO). A variety of governments and institutions, including the US, Australia, Japan, India, Canada, France, Germany, ...

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 ...