Goethe's Mephisto paints a cruel picture of trade on the high seas and concludes:" War, trade and piracy, they are inseparable."

What legal and (economic) political forces dominate the seas today…

The students of the "Master of Peace and Security Studies" drove to Berlin for three days led by Dr. Patricia Schneider to experience security policy up close.

The highlights included a visit to…

Eric Hobsbawm’s milestone work Bandits is attentive to the rural poor and situates social banditry within the world of peasant resistance, but his concepts are surprisingly adaptable to contemporary…

In contemporary missions, soldiers often face unconventional opponents rather than enemy armies. How do Western militaries deal with war criminals, rioters, or insurgents? What explains differences in…

Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South. In the framework of a workshop organized by Jun.-Prof. Solveig Richter and colleagues from the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy,…