In the current debate surrounding defense capability, both energy security and climate change play a secondary role. In his new CSS analysis, Leonard Schliesser explains why increasing the energy ...

In her analysis, Gorana Grgić takes stock of the NATO Summit in The Hague. She highlights how the 5 per cent of GDP agreement on defense spending reflects a conceptual shift in burden-sharing and ...

The annual Bulletin on Swiss Security Policy (Bulletin zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik) deals with current issues in Swiss foreign and security policy and presents selected CSS projects. It ...

In South-East Asia, the emerging great power China is challenging the supremacy of the US, which is clinging to its leading role in the region, argue Linda Maduz and Simon Stocker in this new CSS ...

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 ...

Since the “Zeitenwende”, the shape of Switzerland’s neutrality has once again become a controversial subject domestically. The Federal Council has so far seen no need to change course, but will have ...

This edited volume compiled by CSS director Andreas Wenger and Alex S. Wilner focuses on contemporary denial, bridging the theoretical gap that persists between classical deterrence theory and ...

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 aim of this book is to review the use of technology in monitoring and verifying ceasefires, drawing on the Ukraine experience between 2014 and 24 February 2022. It explores the question of how ...

This report discusses significant milestones in the development of ransomware, and what turned them into a significant threat to human and national security.

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 ...

Ceasefires fail for different reasons, one of them being the poor quality of ceasefire agreements and their insufficient monitoring and verification. The use of technology for ceasefire monitoring – ...