Dr. Julia Palmiano Federer is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich, where she is leading a book project on process design for peace mediation as part of the CSS ...

Within this theme, developments within the Euro-Atlantic security environment and architecture that are relevant to Swiss foreign, security, and defense policy are in focus. A particular emphasis is ...

The growing complexity of border-transcending security issues confronts the international community with a plethora of challenges. Within the topic of “Global Security”, we examine how geopolitical ...

Dr. Kit Rickard is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Political Science Department at University College ...

Cyber, space, and artificial intelligence (AI) are pivotal research fields in contemporary security studies and on the modern battlefield. Cyber has taken on heightened significance as offensive cyber ...

There is a close collaboration with the external page team of the MAS "Mediation in Peace Processes" program, as well as with CSS Senior Researchers Kit Rickard and Julia Palmiano Federer, and with ...

The world is undergoing a precarious transition marked by geopolitical tensions, economic disruption, fragmented global governance and weakening multilateralism. This volatility is notably exemplified ...

Sabina Stein is a Senior Researcher and Deputy Head of the Mediation Support Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. She works on the Mediation Support Project (MSP), a joint ...

Névine Schepers heads the Swiss and Euro-Atlantic Security Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich where she is also a Senior Researcher. She is also co- editor of the monthly ...

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 ...

Recent revelations of Chinese government-backed hacking show a recurring pattern: prominent hackers behind groups such as APT17, APT27, APT41, Flax Typhoon, and Red Hotel—monikers given by ...

Space systems are an integral part of modern war fighting. Militaries use them to conduct everything from reconnaissance to communications and data transfers, mission planning, and maintain ...