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Baudissin's Legacy, Peace Research and the Bundeswehr
Prof. Frank ReininghausBaudissin: the name still resonates when considering the IFSH’s founding and its first dozen years. Who was Wolf Graf von Baudissin, or rather – to use his full title – who was retired Lieutenant…
Mikhail Gorbachev at the IFSH
Dr. Margret JohannsenMikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and pioneer of German reunification, celebrates his 90th birthday today, 2 March. Almost exactly 29 years ago he was a guest at IFSH. IFSH Senior…
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,…