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Meeting the Challenges of Security Sector Reform
Round Table with the Federal Foreign OfficeFor the second time, the German Federal Foreign Office and the IFSH’s Research and Knowledge Transfer Office Security Sector Reform (SSR Hub) hosted a round table on security sector reform. On 8…
OSCE Insights publications on OSCE’s vitality
Dr. Wolfgang Zellner, Prof. Andrei ZagorskiThe two new OSCE Insights publications by Andrei Zagorski and Wolfgang Zellner discuss ways to strengthen OSCE’s vitality. Zagorski explains how the CSCE survived thanks to what he calls asymmetric…
Cybersecurity and diplomacy
In his article for the journal Policy Design and Practice, Dr Mischa Hansel focusses on cybersecurity as an emerging field of public diplomacy. His study sheds light on the blame games between major…
European energy solidarity: strengthening the EU’s crisibility
Dr. Aline BartensteinAline Bartenstein explains in her latest policy paper for the Robert Schuman Foundation the EU’s bumpy road towards institutionalizing energy solidarity. Although we might be guardedly optimistic in…
Apply now! Peace and Security Studies (M.A.) 2023/2024
Call is open until March 31, 2023.Are you interested in the connections between peace research and security policy? Would you like to learn more about strategies to prevent or reduce violent conflicts and what conclusions policy…
International Authors' Workshop in Hamburg
From 7 to 8 February, the authors' workshop of the project Germany and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Resisting Change? took place in Hamburg. The group of internationally…Guidelines for a research agenda on nuclear injustice
Roundtable in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists„Nuclear weapons are to global security what fossil fuels are to a green economy: a costly legacy of past generations thwarting justice and sustainability efforts in the long-term,“ argued IFSH…
Paris goals at risk: Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2023 published
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is not realistic with current political and societal efforts. This is the conclusion of a new study by the Hamburg Cluster of Excellence "Climate,…
Major success for Hamburg's arms control research
The team of the Research and Transfer Project Arms Control and Emerging Technologies was able to convince the Federal Foreign Office with the project results following four years of project duration…