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In the CSS Annual Report 2023, you can read more about the main focuses and activities of CSS in a year characterized by multiple, overlapping crises with a serious impact on global security.

The Military Academy at ETH Zurich and the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich have published the survey «Security 2024». Since 1999, the annual study has evaluated long-​term trends and tendencies in public opinion on foreign, security and defense policy issues in Switzerland.

Cyberspace and outer space share many similarities due to their open, shared, expansive, transboundary, and intangible nature. The digitalization of space has increasingly interlinked space and cyberspace, exposing satellites, ground stations, and user terminals to cyber threats. Understanding the links between space and cyberspace is critical to better protect the space assets on which society relies.

An increasingly capable nuclear North Korea is seemingly growing closer to both Russia and China. While converging interests between the three states exist, there are limits to how deep their partnership runs and consequently risks of overestimating the extent of their coordination and cooperation. Nevertheless, security threats arising from these developing relationships are increasingly important and have implications for not only Northeast Asia, but also Europe.