International crises are a stress test for governments, offering opportunities to rally citizens but also risking dissatisfaction with tough policy choices. While trust in government has fluctuated in ...

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 CSS publishes various reports on security policy issues.

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

The Russian Analytical Digest (RAD) analyzes recent events, trends and developments within contemporary Russian politics, economics and business, foreign policy, security and society. Each issue ...

The Strategic Trends series offers a concise analysis of major developments in world affairs, with a primary focus on international security. The annual volumes provide succinct interpretations of key ...

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 ...

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 ...

In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that 6,000 languages can ...