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International Cybersecurity: Kick-off Workshop on "Zero Trust"
For the official opening of the IFSH research focus "International Cybersecurity", the team around project leader Dr Mischa Hansel organised an event titled "With Zero Trust to Global Trust?…
Sanctions: an Important but Increasingly Abused Instrument of International Politics
New Blog PostFor Donald Trump, they have been the central means of putting pressure on other states. But he is not alone in this: over the past two decades, the number of international sanctions has grown…
New textbook International Relations in the Anthropocene
The textbook “International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches”, edited by David Chandler, Franziska Müller and Delf Rothe, introduces students of…
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…