The risk and resilience reports provide a focused discussion of aspects of security risks and vulnerabilities, risk analysis and management, emergency preparedness, and crisis management – often with ...

The Center for Security Studies (CSS) organizes various academic conferences and a number of workshops to promote cooperation and the exchange of ideas between academics and security policy-makers ...

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 ...

State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and important topic in today's international affairs – and especially pertinent in the regional politics of the Middle East and South Asia, where Pakistan ...

Ivo Capaul is a Researcher in the Defense Policy and Arms Acquisition team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. His research interests include military strategy and doctrine, ...

The Defense Policy and Armaments Acquisition team conducts research on current dynamics at the interface of military forces development and technological innovation and analyses their possible ...

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent and nonpartisan membership organization, think tank and publisher all rolled into one. It dedicates itself to clarifying contemporary global ...

The Global Security Team works on key issues related to international and global security policy. At its core, the focus is on US and Russian foreign and security policy, the changing geopolitics and ...

Nobelpreisträger Kenneth Arrow bezeichnete Vertrauen einst als «Schmiermittel» eines sozialen Systems. Ohne Vertrauen in die Regierung kann eine Gesellschaft nicht richtig funktionieren. Der Aufbau ...

Trockenheit stellt für die Schweiz eine zunehmende Bedrohung dar. Was bedeutet das für Bevölkerungsschutzorganisationen? Mit welchen Strategien können sich diese ...

The CSS publishes various reports on security policy issues.