Swiss Security Policy Takes Shape on Online Platform
This is unique even for Swiss standards of direct democracy. Before drafting the 2009 Report on Security Policy, the first security white paper in ten years, the Swiss Federal Department of Defence,...
View ArticleWe Care for the Security of European Citizens
It’s Sweden’s turn to organize the annual European Security Research Conference under its Presidency of the EU. The conference will be held in Stockholm 29-30 September 2009 bringing together around...
View ArticleRisk Communication in Security Policy
Researchers from the ISN-supported expert community on crisis and risk have just published a new policy paper. According to Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Jonas Hagmann, the concept of risk communication has...
View ArticleMeeting Tomorrow’s Security Challenges
Can the world find a new blueprint for collective action to resolve global, regional and national challenges, or will shifting power patterns lead to further fragmentation? This challenging question is...
View ArticleCSS Analysis: Progress in Biotechnology as a Future Security Policy Challenge
In the newest CSS Analysis, Progress in Biotechnology as a Future Security Policy Challenge, Sergio Bonin examines how biotechnological advances might impact security policy in the future. He notes:...
View ArticleU.S. Presidential Elections: What Role for Foreign and Security Policy?
On the 9 October, the ISN and the Center for Security Studies (our parent organization) hosted an expert panel organized by the US Embassy in Bern. The panelists, who included Ms. Susan M. Elbow,...
View ArticleThe Experts’ IR Roundup in Zurich – Part 2
Our colleagues at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) recently hosted the “Security and Resources” module of their Master of Advanced Studies in Security Policy and Crisis Management program....
View ArticleWhat do the Swiss Really Think of Their International Neutrality?
Every year the Center for Security Studies and the Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH) conduct a survey to determine the Swiss electorate’s attitudes toward a...
View ArticleBarack Obama, The Peacemaker
This article was originally published April 21 2014 by World Policy Blog. Less than two weeks after Barack Obama assumed the Presidency of the United States, he was nominated for the 2009 Nobel Peace...
View ArticleJohn Bruni on Security Jam 2014
Did Security Jam 2014 strike the right balance in terms of issues discussed, topics, categories etc.? I believe that Security Jam 2014 did strike the right balance. Essentially it sought to unpack how...
View ArticleThe Strategist: The Work of an Unconventional Political Scientist
This article was originally published by the Harvard International Review on 11 December, 2015. In Sparrow’s narrative, the private and the public are intimately related, interconnected, and form a...
View ArticleThe Swedish Counter-Intelligence Report on Hostile Russian Activities in the...
This article was originally published by PISM on 24 March 2016. The Swedish counter-intelligence service’s latest annual assessments highlight the growing interest of Russian intelligence in Sweden’s...
View ArticleHidden Dangers: The Implications of the Global Health Security Agenda
This article was originally published by the Harvard International Review on 15 April 2016. On the heels of the annual International Monetary Fund/World Bank conference and an Ebola-ridden year, the...
View ArticleWither NATO?
This article was published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 23 November 2016. I have long been critical of those who think that NATO faces an existential crisis (see Wallace Thies for this debate)....
View ArticleRussia’s New Information Security Doctrine: Guarding a Besieged Cyber Fortress
This article was originally published by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) on 20 December 2016. Russia´s new Information Security Doctrine follows the line adopted in previous...
View ArticleThe EU’s Winter Package for European Security and Defence
This article was originally published by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in December 2016. The security and defence of of the European Union touches on a core area of national...
View ArticleJust Because We Look Away, The War in Afghanistan is Not Over
This article was originally published by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) on 13 January 2017. Recent developments herald a troubled year for the Afghans During 2015 and 2016, the...
View ArticleHow the Exclusion of Muslims Could Help Extremists
This article was originally published by IPI Global Observatory on 3 February 2017. Within two weeks of taking power, new United States President Donald Trump has signed a number of executive orders...
View ArticleJapan’s Security Policy Reform: Institutional Changes Facilitating a Larger...
This article was originally published by the East-West Center on 2 March 2017. In light of the recent summit between President Trump and Prime Minister Abe and the latter’s fifth year in office, it is...
View ArticleModeling Peace and Security: The Future of Computer-Supported Policy
This article was originally published by IPI Global Observatory on 13 June 2017. Central Europe received a major increase in refugees fleeing Syria in 2015. With the region’s politicians initially...
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