Strategic Trends 2016
Now available: Strategic Trends 2016 – concise analyses of key developments in international affairs.
2015 was not a good year for international peace and stability – and 2016 will most likely not be any better. Recurrent editions of Strategic Trends have described facets of a continuous worsening of geopolitical stability in key global regions. It was not until last year, however, that the last European felt direct repercussions of those conflicts in North Africa and in the ever tumultuous Middle East. We cannot help but diagnose both a deterioration of the numerous conflicts and an aggravation of their consequences. Against this background, the researchers of the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich debated intensively which key developments would shape international politics in the coming year, and what the major consequences could be. As is tradition with the Strategic Trends series, the result is five chapters introducing and analyzing key developments in international affairs – though in no way all
the important trends for 2016.