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New Landmark Report Recommends OSCE Engagement with China
Since its inception in late 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative has grown into a sweeping global trade and infrastructure development project with increasing geopolitical and geo-economic…First volume of OSCE Insights now published
Last year the IFSH launched a new publication series, OSCE Insights. The successor to the OSCE Yearbook, OSCE Insights presents policy papers written by scholars and policy analysts as well as by…
New Project on Nuclear Warhead Authentication
In March 2021, a new research project started working on nuclear disarmament verification. The authentication of nuclear weapons ensures that an object is indeed a nuclear weapon. In this project, C…
Making the OSCE fit for purpose
A Contribution by former Secretary General Thomas Greminger to OSCE Insights.
From 2017 to 2020 Thomas Greminger was Secretary General of the OSCE. During his tenure he promoted the reform agenda “Fit for Purpose” with the aim of better equipping the OSCE for confronting the…Lecture about Germany´s nuclear politics since the Cold War
On April 13, 2021, Ulrich Kühn gave a lecture titled "Choosing the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella: Counterproductive Consequences of Germany's Love for the Status Quo" within the lecture series "IR Talks" at…ISA Annual Conference 2021
The team of the research area Arms Control and Emerging Technologies was again represented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference 2021, from 6th to 9th April. The conference…Statement by the Deep Cuts Commission
The Deep Cuts Commission believes the United Kingdom’s new nuclear policies to increase the limit of its overall nuclear stockpile to 260 warheads and to make its nuclear posture more opaque…
Online Book Launch “International Relations in the Anthropocene”
On April 29, 2021 the textbook “International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches”, edited by David Chandler, Franziska Müller and IFSH climate-expert Delf…
Knowledge Transfer “Made in Hamburg”
Dr. Ulrich Kühn“Speak truth to power!” This pithy phrase, which is used to encourage the listener to confront those in power with the truth, also neatly sums up both the goals and conflicting objectives of effective…
New IFSH Video on Autonomous Weapons
Drones and autonomous weapons - blessing or curse?The war in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in Autumn 2020 and the 2019 attack on an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia show that unmanned weapons systems such as drones are now being used deliberately to…