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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…
New Deep Cuts Working Paper on Transparency, Ambiguity, and Prospects for New International Commitments in the Nuclear Realm
Nuclear weapon states’ policies with regards to their arsenals and doctrines remain ambiguous, with transparency used mainly to support explicit and implicit threats. When a state has the apparent…Statement on the Postponement of the Meeting of the New START Bilateral Consultative Commission (BCC)
The Deep Cuts Commission and the Young Deep Cuts Commission regret the postponement of the meeting of the New START Bilateral Consultative Commission (BCC), which had been scheduled to take place in…
New OSCE Network Report: The OSCE and Central Asia
A new report by the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions looks at the OSCE’s future options for engagement with its Central Asian participating States. It examines the opportunities…
Exchange with OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President at the IFSH Berlin Office
On 16 December, representatives from the Centre for OSCE Research (CORE) at IFSH and the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions met with the President of the OSCE Parliamentary…
"Ask the IFSH!" - Event for interested citizens
Not only media and politicians need clarification and explanation. Many citizens also feel helpless and concerned about the war in Ukraine. For this, our event format Ask the IFSH! offers profound…
Lessons from the Past: Arms Control in Uncooperative Times
Since the end of the Cold War, arms control has often been perceived as a cooperative endeavor, particularly in Europe. Although the global arms control regime has been deteriorating for some time,…