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This Risk and Resilience Report by Kevin Kohler, Andrin Hauri, Florian Roth and Benjamin Scharte provides an overview of recent individual preparedness research. The report discusses a broad variety of indicators that can help to measure individual disaster preparedness and explores the data availability of these indicators for Switzerland.

Many evangelicals draw on Biblical prophecies about the apocalypse in order to shape US policies. Multilateral solutions to global problems need to recognize and constructively include such worldviews, argue Cora Alder and Emanuel Schäublin in this CSS Policy Perspective.

According to this CSS Policy Perspective by Alexander Bollfrass and Mariana Budjeryn, the nuclear arms control architecture that underwrites European security is crumbling. Europe cannot achieve global nuclear disarmament or build its own credible deterrent, but it can clear the path for the next generation of arms governance through joint action. 

As the Arctic ice recedes, interest in resource extraction and promising trade routes increases, argue Maria Shagina and Benno Zogg in this CSS Analysis. Two actors in particular will have a strong impact on the region: China and Russia. Both are bound by an intricate dynamic of cooperation and competition, particularly in the energy sphere. As their interests do not always overlap, tensions and asymmetries between them may increase.

According to this CSS Analysis by Jakob Bund and Ann-Sophie Leonard, rapid development of a vaccine has become a new measure of success in fighting coronavirus. More than any previously, this phase of the pandemic will be shaped by information, both positively through new knowledge on vaccines and negatively through influence attempts around their effectiveness and safety.