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Between Apple Orchards and the River Elbe: Hamburg Arms Control Research Retreat
From 8 to 10 July, 21 people from 7 research projects in the Arms Control and New Technologies research area met in the Altes Land. The aim of the meeting was to grow together as a team beyond the…
Visiting group of the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College at IFSH
Bundeswehr meets Peace Research: As part of their training, prospective staff officers regularly visit the IFSH. This time, the future leaders of the armed forces learnt about the main topic „War in…
The global politics of Digital Twins
The vision of the European Union and the European Space Agency (ESA) is bold: a Digital Twin of the Earth (DTE) that combines digital technologies such as satellite remote sensing, computer models and…
IFSH Researcher Speaks at Federal Foreign Office Conference
The Federal Foreign Office conference series “Capturing Technology - Rethinking Arms Control” took place this year under the title "Artificial Intelligence and Weapons of Mass Destruction". At the…
Escalation risks of hypersonic boost-glide vehicles
Steve Fetter, Tim Thies and Victor MizinAvangard, Dark Eagle, or Dongfeng 17 – more and more countries are developing their own hypersonic weapons, or more precisely, hypersonic boost-glide vehicles. In an Issue Brief for the Deep Cuts…
European climate solidarity: analysing a vague concept
Climate solidarity has become a core concept of the socio-ecological transformation in recent years. With the Green Deal, the EU launched a programme in 2019 intended not only to initiate the…
The European Union’s Normalisation Policies for Kosovo: Contributing to a Durable Peace?
For more than a decade, the European Union (EU) has engaged in efforts aiming at normalisation of Kosovo-Serbia relations. However, the EU has not focused on settling the core issues of the conflict.…
The Strategic Use of Legitimizing Norms in Unilateral Declarations of Independence
Norms can be instrumentalised and manipulated to serve any kind of interests: personal, national or international. This article by Argyro Kartsonaki sheds light on how secessionists instrumentalize…
A Rudderless World: Germany‘s Leading Peace Research Institutes Present Peace Report 2024
The global death toll from wars and conflicts is at an all-time high: The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, military coups and in Africa result in tens of thousands of victims. At the same time, the fight…
Germany's Atomic Zeitenwende
What is the current state of the German debate on nuclear deterrence? Can the balancing act between nuclear deterrence and disarmament succeed? And how can the gap between politics and science be…