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Update Available - Societal Actors Advancing Peace and Security in Cyberspace
Dr. Mischa Hansel, Dr. Jantje SilomonWithout adequate cyber security, essential services and basic supplies are put at risk in our ever increasingly digital societies. This became abundantly clear in May 2021, when a ransomware attack in…
The IFSH Celebrates 50 Years - Senate Reception at Hamburg City Hall (Video)
Impressions from the celebration on 11 June 2021“Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.” This dictum from Willy Brandt is our mandate and our motivation. For 50 years, we have been researching the mutually dependent…
Why Germany and France still have different views on security policy - New Policy Brief
Barbara Kunz contributed the article “Paris and Berlin: still no strategic convergence, while the big questions return” to the Security Policy Library of the Norwegian Atlantic Committee. She…
50 Years IFSH: Anniversary Ceremony at the City Hall
"Peace is not everything, but everything is nothing without peace". This dictum of Willy Brandt is our mission and our drive: For 50 years, we have been researching from Hamburg and, since 2019,…Peace Report 2021 Published
"Europe can do more!" This is the rallying cry of the four leading German Peace research institutes call for in their current Peace Report, which they have presented today at the Federal Press…
Statement by the Deep Cuts Commission on nuclear arms control
Statement der Deep Cuts Commission
Turning the tide: NATO, the United States and Russia need to agree on an ambitious arms control agenda
After a series of arms control setbacks in recent years,…New Policy Paper: "Weapons of Mass Distortion"
Which emerging technologies are most likely to escalate a crisis? And which nuclear risk reduction measures could mitigate any potential risks of emerging technologies, while also capitalising on…
"Jan’s Cyber Hotchpotch" - New Newsletter about International Cybersecurity
International cybersecurity has become a central building block of inter-state foreign and peace policy. Do you want to keep track of cybersecurity developments around the world? Have you sometimes…
New Book on Civil-Military Relations and Global Governance
This book written by IFSH researcher Dr. Cornelia Baciu examines the impact of international security governance and non-state actors on norms formation and security sector reform in hybrid orders.
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