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 ...

Western states increasingly face attacks that fall into a gray zone between war and peace. The outbreak of a conventional war on European soil has accentuated this trend. In order to describe this ...

Weder die Schweiz noch die EU sind in diesem Winter direkt von grossflächigen und langanhaltenden Stromausfällen bedroht, wohl aber die Ukraine. Die Sicherheit der Stromnetze, die Energieversorgung ...

Westliche Staaten sehen sich vermehrt Angriffen ausgesetzt, die in einer Grauzone zwischen Krieg und Frieden zu verorten sind. Dieser Trend hat sich mit dem Ausbruch eines konventionellen Krieges auf ...

Das Team des Cyberdefense Projects des Center for Security Studies (CSS) hat vom Swiss Cyber Institute den diesjährigen „Excellence in Cybersecurity Research“-Award erhalten. Diese prestigeträchtige ...

Emanuel Schaeublin is an anthropologist and researcher in the Mediation Support Team and its Culture and Religion in Mediation (CARIM) program. He advises the United Nations, the European Union, and ...

The series “CSS Analyses in Security Policy” has been discussing current developments in foreign and security policy and their contexts in a concise format since 2006. The topics are often analyzed ...

In the last decade, cyber incidents have become more expensive, more disruptive, and in many cases more political. Within this theme, we focus on two closely interlinked issues: First, the use and ...

Technological competition has long been at the heart of international security. Economic containment vis-a-vis the Soviet Union has been a key pillar of the United States’ grand strategy during the ...

The Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD) is a bimonthly internet publication jointly produced by the external page Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC-Georgia), the external page Research Centre for ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key driver of changes in the economy, society, and the state. As a result, it also has become a crucial issue in national and international political debates. In this ...

Within the CIS PhD program, the Center for Security Studies (CSS) offers PhD positions. Besides the writing of the doctoral dissertation, the students attend courses in their field of specialization ...