Latest Publications

The mobilization potential of gender-based needs

Ann-Kathrin Rothermel, Valentina Nerino, Leandra Bias, Colm Flaherty, Francesca Feo, Alexandra Sipos, in: Frontiers in Political Science. Political Participation, 3.11.2026

Self-Diagnosis of a Genocidal Socienty: Ideology, Violence and Denial

Hanna Pfeifer, in: Book Forum on Omer Bartov's Israel: What Went Wrong?, in: Czech Journal of International Relations, 3.11.2026

Moving on from the US – Easier for missiles than for doctrine

Lucian Bumeder, Tobias Fella, in: Strategic Simplicity, 30.10.2026.
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The Aesthetics of Love: Art-Based Approaches in the Wake of War

Schulz, Philipp, in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 29.10.2026.

Doing Practice Research on Normativity: A Methodological Toolkit

Frank Gadinger, Holger Niemann, in: PVS Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 26.10.2026.

The Promise of Multistakeholderism: Transnational Influence and Legitimacy at the Internet Governance Forum

Lena Herbst, in: Policy & Internet, 22.10.2026.

Memetic warfare as a threat to cognitive security. Legal approaches and non-legal safeguards in Poland

Mateusz Łabuz, Katarzyna Mika-Łabuz, in: Prawo i Więź, 2026.

Europe Is Financing Its Own Digital Dependence

IFSH Brief Analysis by Lena-Sophie Drews, 13.10.2026.

Wired to Beijing? Analyzing the Risks and Approaches towards Huawei and ZTE within European Digital Infrastructure

Lena-Sophie Drews, Antonia Bulfon, Policy Paper, in: European Governance Lab, October 2026.
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(Re-) negotiating identity and navigating the everyday amidst the war in Ukraine. Located knowledge from Ukrainian and Russian diasporas in Germany as a resource for peacebuilding

Regina Heller and Christian Fröhlich, in: Ethnicities, OnlineFirst, 01.10.2026.

Academia’s Responsibility in a Democratic Society Facing Existential Problems

Hanna Pfeifer, in: boasblogs.org. Beyond Activism, 07.10.2026

Contesting control: Mechanisms of norm stagnation in the CCW debate on autonomous weapon systems

Anja Dahlmann, in: Contemporary Security Policy, 20.09.2026.

Large language models (LLMs) as psychotherapists: an analysis based on psychodynamic psychotherapy theory

Mateusz Łabuz et al., in: Ethics and Information Technology, 23.09.2026.

Artificial Intelligence Assurance for the OPCW: Governing Trustworthy AI in CWC Implementation

Alexander Keller, in: CBWNet Working Paper No. 20, September 2026.

Shifting Epistemologies of Police Violence

Julia Leser, in: Routledge Handbook on Transformations of Political Violence, Routledge, 24.08.2026.

The Internationalization of Intrastate Conflict

Hanna Pfeifer et al., in: Routledge Handbook on Transformations of Political Violence, Routledge, 24.08.2026.

Cyber on the Battlefield and the Challenge of Multi-domain Operations

Matthias Schulze, in: De Gruyter Handbook of Cyber Conflict and Warfare, 2027.

Policy report – Militarised masculinities and human rights investigations

Philipp Schulz, in: Impunity Watch, 19.08.2026.

Love in a “hopeless” place? Courtship, intimacy, and romance in displacement

Philipp Schulz, in: Journal of Refugee Studies, 13.08.2026.

Cruising Together: How the Europeans Tipped the Scales for the Ground-Launched Cruise Missile

Tim Thies, in: Global Policy, 17.07.2026.

Ethnographic Perspectives on Female Peacemaking in Customary Contexts in Central Eurasia

Anna Kreikemeyer, Mariam Darchiashvili and Arzuu Sheranova, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus 27(1), 2026.

The Politics of Repair in a Broken World

Delf Rothe et al, in: Geopolitics, 11.07.2026.
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The 2022 Nuclear Crisis

Ulrich Kühn (ed.), in: Defense & Security Analysis, 42 (2), 2026.
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Conflict-related sexual violence and diverse sexual orientations and gender identities: Intersectional perspectives

Philipp Schulz et al., in: The Missing Peace Series: Understanding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence through Research, Policy and Practice, PRIO, 2026.

New OSCE Insights Publications on Human Rights and Civil Society

New book series: Masculinities in Global Politics

Editor is IFSH researcher Dr Philipp Schulz.

AI, space, nuclear risks and arms controlcontrol : areas of cooperation between Europe and China

Lucian Bumeder, Tobias Fella, Götz Neuneck et al., in: Policy Brief Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 06/2026.
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New Book from IFSH Cybersecurity Expert

Łabuz, Mateusz. 2026. Before Your Era. Humans in a synthetic world of deepfakes, ChatGPT and artificial intelligence. Poznań: Filia.

Tinkering With the Planet: The Contested Imaginaries of a Digital Twin Earth

Delf Rothe, in: Contested Imaginaries of Future Technologies, 13.05.2026.

Are Softfakes Really “Soft”?

Mateusz Labuz et al, in: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 06.05.2026.