With 190 states parties, the NPT provides the legal basis for nuclear safeguards, which ensure that non-nuclear weapon states do not develop nuclear weapons, guarantees the right to peaceful uses of ...

Non-state armed groups, such as rebels and militia groups, play an important role in contemporary armed conflicts and international politics. They challenge governments through violence, often ...

Dr. Gorana Grgić is the Head of Global Security team at the ETH Zürich’s Center for Security Studies. She is also a non-resident external page Senior Scholar at the United States Studies Centre at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 establishment of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) was a long-standing Soviet idea that gained traction in the 1970s. From 1973 to 1975, East and West engaged in a ...

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 ...

Peacebuilding and conflict prevention initiatives worldwide increasingly rely on so-called “PeaceTech” applications, i.e., digital tools that support conflict early warning, mediation, and ...

In September 2021, Australia, the UK, and the US announced the creation of a trilateral security partnership named AUKUS. The new format is intended to strengthen defense cooperation between the three ...

The necessary shift from fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil or coal towards renewable energy sources has increasingly intensified the pressure to act at the political, economic and societal levels ...

Any analyst writing about Donald Trump’s presidency faces a choice: treat his actions as personal idiosyncrasies or place them in a broader theoretical frame. This analysis considers both. The past ...