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New report: Using the OSCE More Effectively – Ideas and Recommendations
Dr. Wolfgang ZellnerUnpublished paper for the Federal Foreign Office
The jumping-off point for this report was the observation that, on the one hand, nearly all of the parameters of European security – the military…
50 Years of Peace Research in Hamburg — The IFSH Celebrates Its Anniversary
Reducing nuclear weapons stocks, supporting peace in Europe, confronting propaganda and hate on the internet, and examining the effects of climate change on conflicts and war — since 1971, we have…
NATO Watch Report
Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska, Dr. Hans-Georg EhrhartTwo of the IFSH’s senior research associates, Michael Brzoska and Hans-Georg Ehrhart, contributed to an assessment of the December 2020 NATO expert group report , “NATO 2030: United for a New Era”.…
Together in search of peace from below
Dr. Anna KreikemeyerRoundtable at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg
On February 16, 2021, Dr. Oleg Korneev, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg invited to a roundtable…
History does (sometimes) repeat itself
Prof. Dr. Michael BrzoskaWhy are the topics from the founding years of German peace research relevant again today
During its beginnings in the latter half of the 1960s, peace research in Germany benefited from including…
German and Japanese perspective on the current nuclear disarmament architecture
Dr. Ulrich KühnInterview with the Japanese-German Center Berlin
In the conversation moderated by Renate Tenbusch, Director of the EU Office of the Friedrich-Ebert- Foundation, Ulrich Kühn discusses the current…
New research project “ZUSE" takes off
Dr. Hendrik HegemannIn 2015, the EU declared its goal to establish a “Security Union”. The former President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, aimed to create “a Europe that protects”. And the new President…
The "Politics of Scale" in German Political Science: A new DVPW Blog Series
Dr. Regina HellerIn the fall of 2020, IFSH, UHH, GIGA and HSFK jointly organized an online workshop on the topic of "Politics of Scale". The workshop's discussions have now resulted in a number of contributions,…
Studying Everyday Order and Peace from the Ground Up - Workshop Report published
Dr. Anna KreikemeyerThe German Foundation for Peace Research has published Anna Kreikemeyer's report on an IFSH-workshop on peace formation in Central Eurasia. This report summarizes regional expert‘s findings on the…
More credibility in climate security efforts - a blog post
Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska, Dr. Nora Judith Hardt and Alina ViehoffEven after Germany's membership in the United Nations Security Council, the German government should strive to keep the issue of climate change on the international agenda. Judith Nora Hardt, Michael…