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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 ...

Edward Jackson is a Senior Program Officer in the Mediation Support Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich. He works on the Ceasefire Project - a joint initiative with the Centre ...

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 ...

Understanding, “right-sizing,” and adequately respecting the role of value systems in conflict transformation avoids both over- and under-emphasis. It aims at a better understanding of the interplay ...

external page To the Publication Deterrence theory helps conceptualize how threats can be used and communicated to influence or alter an adversary’s behavior. Deterrence by denial reduces the ...

The Cyberdefense Project team of the Center for Security Studies was honored to be selected by the Swiss Cyber Institute to receive this year's “Excellence in Cybersecurity Research” Award. This ...

In South-East Asia, the escalating US-China conflict is clearly moving into the spotlight. China and the US have incompatible goals and ideas about the political order and view each other as potential ...

In 2023, the world celebrates the 75th anniversary of UN peacekeeping. It was in the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 that the UN first tested the seemingly outlandish idea of sending soldiers not to wage war ...

For a long time, peacebuilding has focused on international actors building social cohesion in mostly non-Western countries following violent conflict, rather than thinking about problems at home. Yet ...

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 ...

The spectre of Russian “hybrid war” continues to haunt defense planners and audiences in the West. Digital disinformation campaigns are held to be a central means of waging such wars, extending a ...